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- Corporate Strategy
- Global Strategy
- Global Business Plan
- Global Enterprise
- Cross Cultural Communication
The Corporate Strategy course is designed to help you understand the central strategic challenges facing multibusiness firms. The organizational forms variously referred to as business groups, chaebols, keiretsus, grupos, and business houses are quite common across much of the global business landscape. These forms include a range of internal skills and resources that transcend individual businesses and the sources of their competitive advantage. Thus, the Corporate Strategy course focuses on understanding the set of skills and resources that exist under a multibusiness corporate umbrella. The course deals with a range of issues such as identification of business opportunities outside the core business area, allocation of resources to individual business units, and optimization of corporate level performance.
In this course, we address questions such as:
* Why do multibusiness firms exist? What advantages do they have over single business firms and under what conditions can they be successful?
* How might the success of multibusiness firms depend on the country context within which they operate?
* What are the unique management challenges associated with managing a multibusiness firm? What are the potential sources of conflict between the corporate parent and its subsidiary businesses?
* What is the role of mergers and acquisitions in the corporate strategy process?
In addressing these questions, the course examines how firms generate and preserve corporate advantage, which is the extent to which a firm enhances the competitive advantage of its component businesses. We will examine a set of firm choices:
* Choices concerning the scope of the firm (e.g. should Wal-Mart enter the banking business?)
* Choices about organizational design (e.g. what is the role of the corporate office in a multidivisional firm)
* Choices about corporate strategy vehicles (e.g. when are alliances preferred over wholly-owned entities; why are acquisitions often unsuccessful).
From this course you should develop an understanding of the following key areas of corporate strategy:
1. Domain of corporate strategy and how it links to competitive advantage
2. Vertical scope, transactions costs and resource based theory
3. Horizontal scope and geography - conglomerates and related diversifiers
4. Corporate parenting
5. Alliances and joint ventures
6. Mergers & acquisitions
7. Ownership structures and corporate governance
Global Strategy
This capstone course in global strategy focuses on the inherent tensions that global organizations encounter in formulating and implementing strategy. The treatment of issues such as localization versus standardization, and centralization versus decentralization; transcends the typical multi-domestic or international template to address concerns of a transnational nature. Within this framework, contemporary developments in joint ventures, strategic alliances, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and the management of the globally diversified organization will be addressed.
Learning Objectives:
* Provide a framework within which multinational organizations can be analyzed.
* Cover the entire spectrum of foreign venture management ranging from the definition of multinationals, the rationale behind foreign expansion, the alternative modes of market entry, understanding foreign environments and cultures, and designing global strategies.
* Emphasize both theoretical and practical elements of strategy formulation and implementation.
* Explore the basics of business and corporate level strategies and how to view the corporation as a complete entity in the environment(s) in which it competes.
* Further expand the ability to communicate with top managers in a manner that is clear, concise, and relies on established analytical tools and frameworks to organize and evaluate data.
Global Business Plan
One of the key issues in successfully starting and growing a global venture, particularly if outside capital is needed, is to create a global business plan. A well developed comprehensive global business also provides a guiding framework and evaluation mechanism. This course focuses on the development of a global business plan and all if its components with particular focus on the marketing plan, financial plan, production plan, and organizational plan. The various organizational structures available are discussed in terms of their applicability as well as important legal issues. The sources of capital and how to obtain them, starting, managing and growing a new venture, new venture valuation, and building a lasting venture are also discussed. Each student is expected to develop a formal business plan that would be presentable to venture capitalists and others to receive funding. Lectures, discussions, cases, and a few guest speakers will make this class a robust, valuable learning experience.
Course Objectives
The primary goal of this course is to provide an understanding of entrepreneurship and the global business plan. This course will broaden a basic understanding obtained in the functional areas as they apply to new venture creation and growth, the business plan, and obtaining funding. Specifically, the course will:
* Integrate functional area material as it applies to starting a new venture and its growth.
* Develop an understanding of the role and activities of entrepreneurship in a global setting.
* Provide an opportunity to evaluate your own entrepreneurial tendencies and ability to create a global business plan.
* Understand all aspects of developing and submitting a business plan.
* Understand the various capital sources and the process of obtaining outside funding.
Global Enterprise
In global economies, entrepreneurship is the engine of economic growth and prosperity. As emerging global leaders it is critical to explore underlying principles and concepts about entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial process and how social responsibility and ethical values are woven into the fabric of entrepreneurial opportunity. This course provides an exploration into these basic concepts including how corporate and social organizations can act entrepreneurially. Specifically, the course covers the personal characteristics and qualities of the entrepreneur, innovation, creativity, global franchising, family business, feasibility and opportunity analysis.
Cross Cultural Communication
This course presents, in a dynamic and interactive format, a framework of models and skills for
communication performance in competitive global business settings. This course assists students in implementing strategies for mastering interpersonal encounters, including conflict resolution, in multicultural environments. This course not only examines theories of communication, but places students in experiential situations in which they develop valuable skills for global management. Through use of cases, self-assessment questionnaires, multicultural team exercises and simulations, this course equips the global manager with the ability to solve problems and take advantage of opportunities in a multi-cultural world.
Course Objectives:
“The Jack Welch of the future cannot be me. I spent my entire career in the United States. The
next head of General Electric will be somebody who spent time in Bombay, in Hong Kong, in
Buenos Aires. We have to send our best and brightest overseas and make sure they have the
training that will allow them to be the global leaders who will make GE flourish in the future.”
Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE, in a speech to GE employees The course will provide students with knowledge, skills, insights, and experience necessary to be a communicatively competent international manager. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Understand theories of culture, communication and cross-cultural communication interactions and how these impact business relationships;
2. Develop an empirical understanding of how the cultures of the world compare and what are their similarities and differences.
3. Examine the impact of cultural differences on managerial communication and how to be an effective communicator in a cross-cultural setting.
4. Gain insight into personal and cultural "baggage" that influences your cognitive, affective, and crosscultural behavioral processes; and
5. Expand skills in achieving cross-cultural communication competence through the understanding and practice of increased appropriateness, flexibility, and adaptability.
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