GBA 7241:Experiencing Business in a Global Environment

6-9 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 6-9 Credit Hours
Rapid and persistent advances in technology, along with constantly improving efficiencies in transportation and logistics, have created unprecedented opportunity for global market access amidst an ever-changing landscape of country-specific cultural, political, legal, and economic infrastructures. This course discusses the global-scale issues faced by today’s multi-national corporations, with a special focus on developing the personal knowledge and skills needed to compete effectively in this environment. Topics include the international aspects of accounting, finance, marketing, economics, and law.

A focal point of the course is an integrated co-learning experience with students from one of the largest Executive MBA-only educational institutions in Eastern Europe, known as ASEBUSS, which is located in Bucharest, Romania. Students and faculty travel to Romania and London to join students from ASEBUSS in the initiation of a team project focused on a wide range of international business practices. The project is ultimately concluded in the U.S. when the same ASEBUSS students travel to Atlanta seven months later. In the interim, the joint student teams work virtually using remote collaboration technologies.