Emerging Markets Coursework
The coursework for the Kogod Global Management Institute provides students with both conceptual overviews and practical application for their future involvement in emerging markets. Students are exposed to a range of challenges and opportunities that face every department within an organization. This includes strategy and growth planning, technology, finance, ethics, legal, risk management, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, supply chain management, marketing, and human resources.
Kogod's tenured faculty and executives-in-residence are the exclusive instructors for KGMI. Leveraging their professional networks, faculty also invite numerous industry experts to personally lend their insight to the intensive week-long session.
May 2012 Kogod Global Management Institute coursework will include the following topics:
Introduction to Globalization and Emerging Markets
Frank DuBois, Associate Professor, International Business
Students will develop a stronger appreciation and understanding of the role that emerging markets are playing in the development of the growth strategies of multinational enterprises. In addition, attention will be focused on the growth of emerging market based "mini-multinationals" that have risen to challenge traditional notions of global competition. This module will set the stage for discussions to follow later in the week.
Intellectual Property Rights and Ethical Issues
Robert Edgell, Assistant Professor, Management
This module aims to prepare experienced business leaders for the challenges of guiding organizations through strategic challenges presented when innovating in emerging markets. Coursework will address the following questions: What are the innovation challenges to developing, deploying, and protecting IP in emerging markets? What are the ethical issues surrounding the monetization of IP in developing countries? Who are the various stakeholders and how might each group view IP? This seminar will review current multilateral agreements (WTO, etc.), key challenges, and explore relevant IP cases in particular industries.
The Global Supply Chain and Emerging Markets
Ayman Omar, Assistant Professor, International Business
Students will appreciate the ways in which the global supply chain acts to reinforce a competitive advantage, including how problems of distance and high energy costs can be managed to avoid losing markets. Green supply chain strategies will be studied as well as the distinctive challenges that face emerging markets in developing global supply chains.
Achieving Sustainability in Emerging Markets
Dan Jacobs, Executive-in-Residence, Sustainability Management
Sustainability is increasingly becoming a significant issue for business, especially in the global arena. Through this module, students will understand the complex relationship between business, societies, governments, and the natural environment, with a focus on the issues and challenges of achieving sustainability in emerging markets.
BRIC in 2050: A New Economic and Political Order
Bob Sicina, Executive-in-Residence, International Business
Scenario planning is used to create plausible alternative futures for the major emerging market countries (BRIC) and G 6 countries using the Goldman Sachs defining work on BRIC as a backdrop. The trends, driving forces and key uncertainties likely to prevail over the next decades in this arena are described and then used to create scenarios in a process that will broaden students thinking about the future of BRIC and the G6.
Africa Rising
Bob Sicina, Executive-in-Residence, International Business
Africa is boarding the globalization train. From Arab Spring to the spilt of Sudan and South Sudan, Africa's economic tide is turning. This module explores the implications from businesses' perspective on emerging markets that is potentially profound.
