Geopolitical Risks in Intl Bus

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Geopolitical risks impact the operations and profitability of global businesses. Such risks can arise from conflicts among great powers, namely the United States, China, Europe, and Russia. They can also arise from ideological tensions, such as that between globalization and nationalism. Additionally, they can arise from poor country governance, such as corruption and weak rule-of-law. Risks to business operations and profitability may include physical damage, economic and financial sanctions, cyber-attacks, advanced-technology controls, tariffs, climate-related delicensing, nationalization/expropriation, anti-trust action, political censorship, public health policy actions, and capital controls, among others. This course uses data sets, as well as recent and current case studies, to provide students a grounding in how to identify, evaluate, and manage geopolitical risk exposures, as well as in how to address the impacts of geopolitical risk events as they occur.