Middlebury

MBAG 8644

Business and Global Issues

This course connects business management directly to global issues. It intends to demonstrate the
importance of applying business competencies in dealing with global problems that affect the long-term viability of business, as well as to highlight the knowledge and skills gap between knowing the business fundamentals and solving complex management and societal problems simultaneously. With these intentions, this course serves as an initiation course for all new students of the Fisher MBA Global Impact Management Program. The course uses the raw-case method of learning that frontloads students with complex decision problems linked to one or more global issues, in order to encourage adaptive learning and capacity building required for analyzing and solving true-world business problems. Adaptive learning also means incorporating cross-disciplinary perspectives, frameworks, and techniques often in compressed time frames. Students should expect similar complexity, ambiguity, uncertainty, and volatility throughout the raw-case study as dealing with a tough business problem in real life.
Subject:
International Management
Department:
International Management
Division:
Intl Policy & Management
Requirements Fulfilled:

Sections in Fall 2016 - MIIS, MIIS First Half of Term

Fall 2016 - MIIS, MIIS Workshop

MBAG8644A-F16 Lecture (Shi)