BADM 535

Credit: 2 hours.

This course provides students with a clear conceptual understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved with international business transactions. Young managers face a diverse set of circumstances when they engage in cross-border business (trade and foreign direct investment) as opposed to purely domestic business: e.g., enhanced globalization forces, cross-national heterogeneity in institutions and cultures, increased competition from emerging economies, and - particularly germane for this course - altered strategic economic incentives. Accordingly, we will attempt to analyze these issues, make sense of the fundamental forces behind these dynamics, and understand their managerial implications. The class will focus then on the roots of International Business, and complement this focus with important practical implications and 'real-world' examples and cases - the ambition will always be to wed good theory with practice.

2 graduate hours. No professional credit. Prerequisite: MSM student or consent of instructor.