MBA 5405 Global Business Environment
Explores the global competitive business environment and provides students with a framework to formulate strategies in the global marketplace. Students work in teams to perform case analyses and evaluations of models of business-government relations across major geographic regions and industries through international business, economic, socio-cultural and political lenses. Global business environment topics include international trade relations, economic interdependence, political and economic risk, managing across cultures, and environmental sustainability. Students use these contexts to examine foreign market entry strategies including exporting, international joint ventures, strategic alliances, and foreign direct investment.