Global Business Trends

(2 Credits)

The course is designed to look at current and critical issues of interest for global business, especially challenges that are likely to be important over the course of students careers. Examples include the implications of COVID, the role of immigration, economic inequality, the threat of automation, the future of an open global Internet, global demographic change and the graying of many societies and climate change. Readings and discussions will illustrate the nature of these trends with an eye toward potential solutions as well as their impact on firms, industries and careers.