11.342
The Impact of Globalization on the Built Environment
Fall 2009
Topics
- Course introduction
- The growing globalization of the architecture, engineering, and construction (A/E/C) fields
- Impact of globalization and the current financial crisis on construction industry
- 20/20: vision for the future of the A/E/C field
- Marketing
- International markets, networking/marketing and selecting the appropriate project delivery system
- Infrastructure markets
- Navigating the increasingly treacherous global markets
- Risk management opportunities and parochialism and other barriers to overseas involvement
- Productivity, competitiveness, and innovation
- Project delivery systems
- Megacities and the environment
- Report to board of directors
Readings
- Moavenzadeh, Fred. “Globalization Strategies of Selected E&C Firms.” Working paper. Cambridge, MA: MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, 2009.
- Jacque, Laurent L., and Paul M. Vaaler, eds. Financial Innovations and the Welfare of Nations . Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9780792373285. (Peruse introductory material as general background for class discussion.)
- SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Marketing · READINGS: Moavenzadeh, Fred. “Marketing in the Construction Industry.” Working paper. Cambridge, MA: MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, 2009.
- SES #: 6 · TOPICS: International markets, networking/marketing and selecting the appropriate project delivery system · READINGS: Flyvbjerg, Bent, Mette Skamris Holm, and Soren Buhl. “Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects.” Journal of the American Planning Association 68, no. 3 (2002): 279-295.
- Emmons, Willis, and Monica Brand. “Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program.” Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 793-028, March 24, 1993.
- Ybarra, Shirley J. “VMS Asset Management Contract for Virginia’s Interstate Highways.” Public Works Financing (1998): 26-30.
- Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree . New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. ISBN: 9780374185527. (Read chapters 17 and 18.)
- Wolff, Derish. “Is Your Firm the Next Enron?” Cambridge, MA: The Louis Berger Group, 2009.
- Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree . New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. ISBN: 9780374185527. (Read chapters 19 and 20.)
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.