Operations Management
This course covers a spectrum of issues in global operations management. We start with a discussion of global supply chain strategy and analyze the impact of mergers and acquisitions on global operations. We investigate supplier selection strategies, technology selection toward global integration of enterprises, and identify the challenges of operating in both excess and insufficient capacity environments. We conclude with an analysis of the risks associated with capacity expansion in global markets, and the operational risks associated with dealing multiple currencies.
Management Strategy
Strategic Planning and Implementation is the study of how a business creates value necessary to sustain itself, pay wages, support its communities through tax contributions and provide a return on investors’ capital. The subject of this course draws upon economic fundamentals and an understanding of organization theory. Industry structural analysis begins the course. It is followed by an analysis of the firm’s capabilities, along with industry segmentation and firm positioning as the basis for strategy formulation. Next, it looks at Strategy in a global context, focusing on the risks associated with global competition. Finally, it looks at strategy implementation, the development of action plans, structure and systems to carry out the strategies and visions of the organization’s leaders and members.
Marketing Strategy
Marketing planning is the starting point to put the marketer’s ideas to work. If conducted properly, it’s a disciplined way to analyze the market information, understand the current situation at the company and make decisions. This 12 hour course is designed to provide a general framework on the marketing planning process so each of you are capable to develop and monitor your own plans. The course is divided in three main topics: (1) A marketing planning (2) strategic analysis and (3) the implementation. Pedagogically the course will be case and problem based combined with lectures and videos. By this moment all of you should have a very complete understanding of marketing, with this planning course the main intention is to move a step forward and organize all that knowledge into a decision making process.
International Business
The purpose of the course is to provide a basis for understanding the fundamentals of international business. The course is organized around three major topics: (1) Differences in the business environment across nations from a social, cultural and political perspective as well as the effect of business environment on managerial decisions. (2) Firm’s international expansion and entry strategies. (3) International business strategy and organization across borders.
The course is designed as a seminar divided in three modules that will be covered during the course. Each module has a specific objective which is intended to be fulfilled through the learning activities required for the session and in-class discussion.
Teambuilding
The goals of the course are as follows: 1) gain understanding of ideas and frameworks for analyzing leadership and teams, 2) stimulate, strengthen and develop leadership, and 3) learn from others in a challenging, multicultural learning laboratory.
Leadership is analyzed in terms of personal characteristics of effective leaders. What are the qualities that great leaders possess? How can we develop those qualities in ourselves and in others? What kinds of qualities do we like to see in leaders that we choose to follow? Are there cultural differences in how we think about leadership? Leadership is also examined from a functional point of view. What are the most important functions of a leader in an organization? What are the best ways for accomplishing those functions? We will pay special attention to participative leadership, leading a change in strategy or operating culture, and leading teams.
We will also take a critical look at team performance. What are the factors that influence team effectiveness? How do teams realize synergies from differences that exist between members? How can teams make decisions more effectively? How can a leader foster team effectiveness?
Finance Seminar
This course is offered in Europe and introduces students to the European Union financial market system and includes executive lectures from banking sector, the stock exchange, and local financial market regulators. Students also have advanced topics in international financial market structure and transactions.
Global Strategy
Globalization is a major challenge faced by an increasing number of companies.
Competing internationally is an obvious and long established necessity for firms who decide to do business abroad, but it is also an obligation for companies facing global competition on their domestic markets.
The objective of this course is twofold:
- Understanding the patterns of global competition: In a given industry, what are the forces pushing toward globalization, how do they affect the key players, and what are the factors underlying the success of a global competitor in the industry?
- Examining the ways to design international strategies set up an organizational structure and manage people with different cultural backgrounds, for competing efficiently in global markets.
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Negotiations
This course focuses on key elements of the negotiation process to include: preparing for a negotiation, organizing the negotiation process, making strategic and tactical choices during that process, and evaluating negotiation results. The course also looks at the personal qualities that make someone an effective negotiator, as well as the role of leadership and ethics in conducting successful negotiations.
Entrepreneurship
This class will teach how to train the student to apply the skills learned in the functional area courses to the task of identifying and evaluating new venture opportunities. Working in teams, each student will learn to identify, conceptualize, evaluate, plan, finance, launch, manage, and harvest new ventures. Finally, intrapreneurship, the application of entrepreneurial methods of management to established organizations, will be discussed.
International Finance
This course provides a good understanding of the basic principles of international finance. These principles are reinforced through an ongoing study of the international transition to a market economy. A framework will relate the concepts of international financial markets, international financial risk and its management through various financial instruments, and international financing of corporations.
New Venture Finance
This course that investigates new venture financing. Initially, the course focuses on the process of new venture creation and discusses differences between new or young business and more established firms. This part of the course concludes with a discussion of new business strategy and emphasizes the importance of a clear, well-defined business plan. The course also covers issues such as new venture valuation and new sourcing for capital.
Leadership
This course analyses leadership in terms of personal characteristics and qualities of effective leaders. Students learn to develop those qualities in themselves. The course also examines the cultural differences in how people view leaders and their functions in different organizations. The course also focuses on the application of common sense morality to business conduct.
Global Supply Chain
The course provides an introduction to supply chain management language, concepts, tools, and strategies and is targeted to executives and general managers. The course focuses on supply chain strategy; therefore, the course begins with an overview of business, corporate, and global strategy. The case method is used and supplemented with lectures.
Cross Cultural Management
The goals of the course are as follows: 1) learn about culture and cultural differences from research findings and theoretical frameworks, 2) stimulate, strengthen and develop competencies in managing and leading across cultures, and 3) learn from others in a respectful, challenging, multicultural learning laboratory.
Valuation Project
Students must prepare a written report summarizing the valuation of a regional company and a plan to expand firm value which is supervised and evaluated by Tulane faculty. This report may be based upon the required master’s thesis project.
International Marketing
This course covers a broad range of topics related to managing global marketing efforts and deals with the different stages and challenges of the international expansion efforts of the firm. The course also analyses the dilemma of tailoring versus standardizing marketing programs for specific foreign markets.
Supply Chain Management
This course begins with an introduction to supply chain management and review of the key competitive priorities of quality, cost, speed and the correct product mix. Through team activities, students experience fist hand the implications of the bull whip and ways to reduce it. Students also identify key performance measures, discuss supply chains in different industries and discuss some of the key areas to improve the support of competitive priorities and performance measures.
International Entrepreneurship
This course approaches the subject of entrepreneurship from the perspective of the entrepreneur. It covers the issues that are of particular concern and the most crucial in managing the smaller enterprise that remains relatively small and is kept for a long period of time.
New Venture Creation
The goals of the course are to train the student to apply the skills learned in the functional area courses to the task of identifying and evaluating new venture opportunities. Working in four person teams, each student will learn to identify, conceptualize, evaluate, plan, finance, launch, manage, and harvest new ventures. Finally, intrapreneurship, the application of entrepreneurial methods of management to established organizations, will be discussed. |
