Global Strategy

(3 Credits)

This course provides an understanding of the cultural, political, competitive, technological, legal, and ethical environment in which multinational firms operate. It surveys a range of tools and techniques of environmental analysis for use in assessing foreign and global conditions, opportunities, and threats. It also focuses on multinational corporate strategy organization and management. Students examine the building of strategic capabilities, collaborating across boundaries, developing coordination and control, managing activities and tasks as well as challenges of worldwide functional management geographic subsidiary management and toplevel headquarters management.