TERM:

SPRING 07

COURSE #:

460

SECTIONS:

81

COURSE NAME:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY

INSTRUCTOR:

ALBERTO SALVO

IS THERE A CASE PACKET? (Yes or No):

YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

FIRST READING BY FRANKEL IN CASE PACKET

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY? (Yes or No):

NO

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TERM: Spring 2007

COURSE #: INTL  466

SECTION: 61 & 62

COURSE NAME:

International Business Strategy in Non-Market Environments

INSTRUCTOR: Susan Perkins

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: YES

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: The first assignment is a reading from the course packet entitled, “Market Indicators", The Economist, November 18, 2006 and Homework #1 in the course packet or below:

Homework for Session 1

Look at the recent economic indicators in the Economist (see course packet).

1. Compare the GDP growth rates in emerging markets (p. 106, top table) with those in

richer countries (p. 104, top table). Approximately what are the average GDP growth

rates in (a) the emerging market countries and (b) the richer countries?

2. Do you think emerging market growth rates always looks this way? Do you think the

current growth rates in emerging markets will continue?

3. When you look around the world, where do you see the biggest opportunities for

business growth and development? Why?

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?: YES

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COURSE #:  467

SECTION:  81

COURSE NAME:  International Marketing

INSTRUCTOR:  Phil Corse

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Attendance is MANDATORY for the first class meeting.

Read Chapters 1 & 2…be prepared to discuss:  1) The framework for assessing foreign markets, 2) How Mary Kay Cosmetics qualified market potential in China, and 3) Top-down vs Bottoms-up forecasting (text).

Read “Distance Still Matters” (HBR Article), read course syllabus and study HBR case “Go Global or No?”  Four members of the class will be selected to role play the “advisors in this case in class.  (All information is in the case packet.)

Computers and other “communication devices” must be turned off during class.  Food and beverages are permitted given the time of day.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  REQUIRED

AUTHOR:  David Arnold

PUBLISHER:  Prentice-Hall

TITLE:  The Mirage of Global Markets

ED./DATE:  2004

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COURSE #: 470

SECTION:  61, 62

COURSE NAME:  International Finance

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Torben Andersen

CASEPACK (YES or NO?) :  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  Read Eun and Resnick, Chapter 1, pp. 4-19 and read Eun and Resnick, Chapter 5, pp. 106-122.

1.  TEXT  --   REQUIRED  or  RECOMMENDED?:  Required

AUTHOR:  Eun and Resnick

PUBLISHER:  McGraw-Hill

TITLE:  International Financial Management

ED./DATE:  4th Edition, 2007

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