BU 230 Summer Institute for Global Business Management

The four week summer SIGBM program provides a practical framework for understanding the key dimensions critical to effective global business management while emphasizing the most pressing current challenges faced by global business leaders. Rising undergraduate juniors/seniors and recent graduates of undergraduate programs are encouraged to enroll. SIGBM participants will gain a fundamental grounding in global business management and will enhance skills essential for success after college. The program includes:

 

• Business and Financial Analysis

• Strategic planning

• Global financial markets

• Leadership

• Working Effectively in Teams

• Critical Thinking and Decision Making

• Communicating effectively in a business environment

 

The program integrates current management theory with practical application and includes numerous corporate visits, cultural excursions and discussions with business leaders and faculty. The classroom experience will center on case studies in an active learning environment facilitated by business leaders and faculty with strong credentials in academic research and real world experience in consulting, financial markets, banking and global business management.

 

The program includes firm visits to case firms to provide context as participants undertake a competitive analysis of a firm that includes assessment of the firm’s corporate vision, strategy, business model, leadership development practices and corporate culture. Students who succeed in this program will qualify for a GMAT/GRE waiver if admitted to Sacred Heart University’s MBA program in Fairfield, Connecticut, or Luxembourg; or the MS in Finance and Investment Management in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Offered

Summer