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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: GLOBAL OPERATIONS
Corporate strategies in the context of worldwide goals for global efficiency, flexibility, learning and innovation. Rationalizing production, marketing, and distribution.
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: MANAGING INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION
Forces of industry globalization; early stages of international expansion; strategies for becoming an international player; impact of "Going International" on human resources, production, marketing, and financial systems.
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STRATEGIC ALLIANCES: DESIGN & MANAGEMENT
Crucial role of strategic alliances in achieving leadership goals for advanced technologies and foreign market share. Ingredients for success as partnership progresses from inception to management of operations.
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TRADE MANAGEMENT: EXPORTING & IMPORTING
International trade from a managerial perspective: impacts of economic integration from free trade areas to regional unions; the "language of international trade"; export licensing and import entry processes; financing, shipping, insurance, international collections; tariffs, quotas, and valuation rules.
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EMERGING MARKETS: ENTRY & MANAGEMENT
High potential emerging markets; economic, political, and social environments; appropriate market entry strategies; profiles of potential partners.
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DEALING WITH OVERSEAS AFFILIATES
Relationships with distributors, sales agents, country sales representatives, and licensees for overseas business activities; due diligence and evaluation; understand the relative advantages of each type of affiliate, and determining the best fit with a company's requirements.
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UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS
Economic, political, legal, cultural contexts that shape business realities in key regions: Europe, Asia, China, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Russia and former Soviet States. Management and negotiation styles, level of economic integration, business opportunities by region. Government regulations, approaches to lobbying and public relations.
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INTERNATIONAL  FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Economic trends; government's fiscal and monetary policies, interest rates, impacts on foreign markets; managing foreign exchange & interest rate risk; new instruments to manage risk from currency, interest rate, and commodity exposure; debt and equity financing in the global market; financial strategies to create and maintain value
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GLOBAL MARKETING IMPLICATIONS
Global marketing issues, including branding, global brand management, standardization vs. customization Market research techniques and analysis for competitive advantage; Managing the global marketing organization and its interface with other functions.
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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Human resource management functions, such as manpower planning, compensation, benefits, training, and health/safety, as practiced in global firms; multicultural staffing; comparisons of employer/employee relationship patterns in various regions; the role of unions and migrant labor.
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TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Comprehensive manufacturing strategies; integrated manufacturing networks; capacity and facility planning; a global approach to new product development, materials sourcing and logistics; global supply chains; technology innovation, transfer, and marketing concepts.
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GLOBAL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
Using digital networks to conduct commerce online, including consumer and corporate purchasing, selling, trading, advertising, and information exchange.
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FOREIGN LEGAL ENVIRONMENTS
Legal systems, regulation of direct investment, antitrust laws, international arbitration and expropriation.  Interrelationships among laws of different countries as they affect individuals and business organizations attempting to operate internationally.
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CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTIONS
Multicultural management skills required to deal with culturally-diverse employees and external parties with basic differences in value orientations; ways to lead, motivate, influence, and adapt in foreign environments; approaches to multicultural team building.
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CORPORATE LEADERSHIP
Ability to influence and inspire a multicultural workforce to achieve strategic goals for the benefit of the entire organization; and to build a cohesive network of organizational units across national boundaries.
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