Core Curriculum Themes:

• Global management - general management and entrepreneurial skills, with a focus on global business.
• Global corporate sustainability encompassing profits, environment, and society - participation in a major global consulting project that contributes to the livelihood and environment of people living in a developing country while you apply your learning and business skills to the business side of these organizations.
• Global corporate ethics and social responsibility – exploration of complex global problems and business cases that force you to examine and define your values related to corporate ethics, legal compliance, and social responsibility.
• Management of creativity and innovation - effective as a global manager, appreciate the diversity of the world’s cultures, including history, art, politics, social norms, and food. You will also experience valuable lessons on innovation and creativity that can be applied to managing organizations, while using minimal financial resources.

GMAN 702 - Program Orientation: Global Management Skills and Global Communications
You will develop a set of key competencies for leadership in today’s global context by examining your strengths and areas for growth, and initiating an action plan for further learning and growth. Competencies and skills covered include building power and influence, communicating with outsiders and insiders, conflict management skills, interpersonal and motivation skills in a global context. You will develop your verbal and written communication skills, and listening and presentation skills. You will gain a theoretical and practical foundation for effective international management, as well as current knowledge and awareness of the practices of comparative international business communication in individual national settings.

GMAN 701 - Management and Leadership in Global Organizations
You will develop skills essential for global managerial success through exercises in executive leadership, creativity, empowering people, communication and team building in global organizations. Problems of motivation, leadership, job satisfaction, team dynamics, and organizational restructuring are addressed. You will also consider methods of changing organizational behavior by applying behavioral technologies. Activities include hands-on team-based games, managerial leadership exercises, self-assessment instruments, experiential exercises, personality inventories, and high-performance team building in global settings.

GMAN 704 - Data Analysis and Research Methods for Global Business
You will learn to use data analysis to support of global managerial decision-making. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability models, decision theory, applied statistical analysis, and deterministic forecasting models. You will also have the opportunity to sharpen your computer spreadsheet skills. Basic research methods for research global consulting projects are also covered.

GMAN 703 - Economic Analysis for Global Business
You will study the application of economic concepts to the management of global firms by analyzing customer demand factors, forecasting customer demand in international contexts, and gaining an understanding of global supply and outsourcing decisions. Other topics include:  treatment of relevant and irrelevant costs for business decision-making; issues of optimal firm scale and scope; vertical integration versus the use of outside global suppliers; and product pricing in diverse international contexts.  You will examine competitive industry structures and the application of economic analysis in understanding managerial decisions in different market structures in different global contexts.

GMAN 711 - Ethical and Social issues in Global Management
You will apply ethical concepts to understand managerial dilemmas in global management such as corruption, environmental degradation, social irresponsibility, child labor, and negative externalities. Topics include ethical principles and argument, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, ethics in international business, and the response in law, politics, and regulation of externalities in global contexts.  

GMAN 753A - Doing Business in Europe: The European Union, Its Institutions and Regulations, and the Impact on Global Business             
You will gain an economic, political and social perspective of the institutional evolution of European legal, cultural, and political integration, as well as competition from Eastern Europe. You will examine of the leading institutions of the European Union, including their tasks, procedures, and effects on business regulation, human resources management, industrial policy, and international trading systems. The course focus is on understanding how to set up a subsidiary or new business in Europe, including a global executive negotiations project (GENPRO).

GMAN 708 - Global Marketing Management
You will gain an integrated overview of global marketing management, with emphasis on the four controllable managerial variables (the “4Ps”): product, price, promotion, and place (channels of distribution). The goal is show the relationship of these variables to the firm’s global marketing strategy and to its overall corporate strategy.  Topics include the role of marketing, marketing research, market segmentation, new product development, marketing mix, channels of distribution, marketing communication, and strategic market planning. (Note: A South American version of this course is also offered.)

GMAN 706 - Accounting for Global Decisions
You will learn how to analyze and make decisions using company financial statements and financial ratios, as well as their relevance in the context of the International Financial Reporting System (IFRS). Case studies including the balance sheets of major international companies will be used to teach you how to compare a company’s performance with its global competitors and budget of capital expenses. The course provides an introduction to the use of accounting data in global cost management, including activity-based costing, economic value added, and balanced scorecard approaches.

GMAN 707 - Global Corporate Finance
This course provides an advanced treatment of issues in corporate finance in a global context including investment decision-making, financial analysis and planning, risk management and short- and long-term financing of investments. You will examine how corporate financing, dividend, leasing, and hedging policies impact the value of the global firm, as well as examine the use of debt versus equity shares to finance projects. Other topics include valuation theory, financial statement analysis, financial planning, management of cash, receivables and inventory, capital budgeting, capital structure and dividend policy, and long-term financing decisions in a global context.

GMAN 723 - Global Money and International Finance
This course provides an executive introduction to the operation of global financial markets, including the causes and role of financial crisis, the evaluation of company investments, and management strategies in the presence of risk in a global context. You will examine factors that influence interest rates and security prices, how to cope with interest rate and foreign exchange risk, analysis of financial instruments in money and capital markets and their uses, as well as government policies affecting the macro environment in which business must function. You will also examine factors influencing currency exchange rates and how to cope with currency risk.

GMAN 705 - Global Forecasting, Operations and Supply Chain Management
You will study modern methods and techniques of managing global operations in organizations to meet customer demands, improve quality, reduce waste of resources, and increase product flexibility.  Topics include production and service planning, resource management, and operations scheduling, including the application of the latest techniques of supply chain management to the global firm.

GMAN 713 - Managing Global Competition
You will examine the opportunities and problems of managing firms in an environment of global competition. The course has three broad areas: the international business environment; the sources and nature of competitive advantage in global industries; and global strategies. Topics include the process of globalization, the global financial and monetary system, cross-cultural management, comparative national business systems, organizational design for global competition, host country relations, and market assessment.

GMAN 712 - Global Strategic Management
This course provides an integrative treatment of global strategic management and strategic alliances. Topics include:  analysis of the firm in the global competitive context, decisions to enter foreign markets, how to compete in global markets, and how to develop and implement a global strategy.  You will be confronted with actual competitive situations and will be asked to provide feedback on the consequences of various types of decisions. 

GMAN 777 - Global Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
You will be introduced to the theories, concepts and practices of corporate governance, responsible investment, corporate social responsibility, and other related ideas and practices in a global context. Topics include the market for corporate control (or lack of it), corporate governance structures, corporate sustainability, and the principles of responsible investment.

GMAN 753B - Doing Business in Asia: The Asian Business Environment (4 units)
You will study the major economic, financial, legal, and regulatory institutions of Asia and the Pacific Rim and their relevance for an integrated approach to management.  You will examine trends in major Asian financial centers and in emerging Asian markets, including strategies for doing business in Asia. This course includes a global executive negotiations project (GENPRO) and presentation of the Lasallian Social Services Management (SOSERVMAN) project to contracting clients. (Note: An African version of this course is also offered.)