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Courses in the Master of Science in Global Management program leverage actual international business cases and global solutions to help you develop the skills to apply global business insight. World-class, multinational faculty share their international expertise in research and consulting, allowing you to learn from their hands-on experience.

Core Course Descriptions

Accounting from a Global Perspective I

This course introduces accrual accounting concepts including revenue recognition, matching, and asset and liability valuation. Topics covered include the recognition and measurement of accounting events, the preparation and analysis of financial statements (balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows), the use of international financial statements and an introduction to inter-corporate investments.

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Finance from a Global Perspective I

This course will focus on the building blocks and the basic theories of Finance. Topics addressed include:  Present value (and Net Present Value) concepts; the basics of stock and bond valuation (including the NPVGO model); capital budgeting (various tools of capital budgeting, and derivation of cash flows for capital budgeting); working capital management.

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Managing People from a Global Perspective

This course explores the mix of organizational practices and people that can be the basis of sustainable competitive advantage in the contemporary global business environment. Topics covered include cross-cultural issues in managing people; traditional and emerging models of organizations; organizational culture; leadership; employee skills and motivation; reward systems; and change management.

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Strategic Management I

This foundation course in strategy covers a range  of Core concepts and analytical techniques relating to competitive advantage in global organizations.  It deals with both classical and contemporary issues of importance such asindustry analysis, Core competence of organizations, top management teams and corporate governance, product/market scope decisions, and value chain analysis.  The emphasis is on the application analytical tools and frameworks to understand complex strategy issues.

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Global Entrepreneurship

This course focuses on the many aspects of creating and growing a global venture. The concepts of going to market, competitive sustainability and building a company to last are discussed along with the aspects and characteristics of global entrepreneurs and the global entrepreneurship process. The concepts of creativity, innovation and opportunity analysis are discussed both an individual and corporate setting as are global ethics, corporate governance, social enterprise and intrapreneurship (corporate venturing).

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States & Markets in the Global Political Economy

This course covers fundamentals of the global political economy including (1) major conceptual frameworks for understanding the linkages between international politics and international economics; (2) key issue areas such as international monetary and financial relations, international trade, foreign investment and transnational enterprises, and North-South relations; and (3) analysis of key international economic institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and World Bank.

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Quantitative Methods

This course introduces basic statistical concepts and their application in the business world. The course starts with the use of descriptive statistics to summarize data. Next, the basic concepts of probability are examined. The course then moves on to consider sampling and statistical inference. The final topic is an introduction to the use of simple linear regression analysis to model relationships between variables. The course material is approached from an applied perspective, with extensive use of business examples to illustrate the concepts. Excel will be used to summarize and graph data and the SPSS statistical package will be used for data analysis.

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Decision Science

This course builds on material from the Quantitative Methods class. It introduces the use of computer simulation for scenario planning, covers regression analysis in depth, and covers the use of computerized techniques for optimization and linear programming. The course takes an applied business perspective, with examples drawn from operations management, finance, and marketing. The @Risk computer package is used extensively in this class. Other software packages used in the course include LINDO and SPSS.

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Accounting from a Global Perspective II

This course covers the application of accounting models to the measurement of assets, liabilities and stockholders’ equity. Topics covered include marketable securities, receivable and inventory valuation, fixed and intangible assets, bonds, leases, dividends, stock buybacks, stock splits and foreign currency translation. The emphasis of the course is on the evaluation of corporate financial reporting policy and the usefulness of financial reports for decision making. U.S. and international accounting standards are covered.

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Finance from a Global Perspective II

The second module of finance picks up where the fundamentals course leaves off. Topics addressed include: Portfolio theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM); Weighted Average Cost of Capital; capital structure theories (including agency/signaling theories and dividend policy); financial market efficiency and its implications.

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Finance from a Global Perspective III

The third module of finance examines corporate finance issues from managerial and strategic perspectives, and extends the concepts covered in the previous two modules to cross-border settings. Topics addressed include: financial and real options; risk management; corporate valuation (domestic and cross-border).

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Marketing from a Global Perspective

This course is designed to provide students with the basic principles of marketing management (i.e., marketing mix, segmentation, target marketing, and positioning), a toolkit required to conduct quantitative analysis as a marketing manager, the ability to conduct an analysis of consumers, competitors and channels, frameworks to evaluate the similarities and differences between domestic and global marketing and marketing ethics and cross-cultural nuances to enable the student to successfully implement marketing strategies in international markets.

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Global Economics

This course investigates, from the business manager’s perspective, the determination of exchange rates, the nature of foreign exchange markets and hedging instruments; international financial markets and the transmission of funds between countries; alternative international monetary arrangements and institutions; balance of payments analysis; the respective economic consequence in response to monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy changes. The course also analyzes conditions for successful growth and the causes and risks of economic crisis.

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Communication & Negotiations Across Cultures

This dynamic and interactive course provides managers with an effective framework for achieving their goals in global management settings. The course will assist students to prepare for and execute time-tested strategies for achieving communication competence with persons from different cultures.  This course will also cover negotiating in the global context. It will not only examine theories of culture and communications, but will also place students in an experiential situation to gain valuable skills for overcoming obstacles in global management environments. Through use of cases, multicultural team exercises, student negotiation exercises, and simulations, this course will equip the global manager with tools to solve problems and take advantage of opportunities in a multicultural world.

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Regional Business Environment

The Regional Business Environment courses deal  with the political and social context in which business activities take place. This includes consideration of eight factors that shape or reflect the operational realities of management and business, including: Patterns of historical development cover political, social and economic events and structures. Geographic environment involves human and economic geography, covering population and natural resource distributions, regional financial and trade centers, and transportation systems. Political environment includes government structure, state role, interest groups, political parties and the policy-making process. Cultural traditions cover religious traditions and socio-cultural dimensions that have a direct impact on business operations. International environment includes regional organizations, regional political and economic trends, regional peace and conflicts, and the place of the region in the global system. For economic environment, economic policies, current economy patterns, and major industries are discussed. Under legal environment, major regional trade barriers, investment policies, and intellectual property protection issues are covered. There are also discussions on major current issues.

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Accounting from a Global Perspective III

This course covers the development and use of managerial accounting information, including both financial and non-financial performance measures, in making long- and short-run decisions. Topics include cost-profit-volume analysis, cost behavior, relevant costs, job-order and processes costing, activity-based cost management and the analysis of customer profitability.

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Strategic Management II

This capstone course in global strategy focuses on the inherent tensions that global organizations encounter in formulating and implementing strategy such as localization v. standardization, and centralization v. decentralization. The treatment of issues transcends the typical multi-domestic or international template to address concerns of a transnational nature. Within framework, contemporary developments in joint ventures, strategic alliances, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and the management of the globally diversified organization will be addressed.

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Leadership from a Global Perspective

This course provides practical insights into those factors, both external and internal, which impact leadership effectiveness. Topics covered include the achievements of leaders, characteristics of leaders, leading across cultures, leading change and relationship between leaders and followers.

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Operations from a Global Perspective

This course provides an overview of the design, control, and improvement of manufacturing and service productions systems. Topics include operations strategy, process selection, value stream analysis, quality management, lean production and supply chain management.

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Global Ethics

This course provides an exploration into how corporate and social organizations can act entrepreneurially and act in a socially responsible manner.

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Marketing from a Global Perspective II

This course focuses on the use of marketing research techniques for competitive advantage in a global business context.