Washngtn Business the World 2

1 Credit · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Washington, Business, and the World is designed to extend and deepen your understanding of current global economic challenges and policy debates. The coursework integrates writing in the major, “Writing to Make Things Happen.” This is the second course in a three-course sequence that “threads” through the fall semesters of students’ sophomore through senior years. The “classroom” is Washington, DC, where learning opportunities related to international policy and the complexities of the global economy abound across and beyond the Hilltop. Here in the nation’s capital there is unmatched opportunity to encounter the international stage from the perspectives of the private sector and global policy. While BGAF 201 focusses on various normative dimensions of the interplay between businesses and larger societal institutions, BGAF 202 pivots to a consideration of these same interrelationships but from a positive perspective. How well, in fact, do firms perform? Does their performance align with larger societal goals? What are the determinants of the success or failure of firms’ furtherance of societal goals? Conversely, how well do governmental bodies perform? What are the drivers of this performance? How important, in practice, are different economic, legal and administrative conditions for the successful operation of governmental bodies? And, at a very high level, what influence do governmental bodies have over firm behavior, and what influence do firms have over governmental bodies?