BAD 499: International Business Seminar
Course Syllabus
Fall 2009
Al Rosenbloom
email:arosenbloom@dom.edu
Office FA 207
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday/Friday:
9:00-10:30AM M/W/F
Also by appointment
Course
Overview
International
Business Seminar serves as the capstone course for every international business
major. As such, the seminar integrates student learning from earlier
international business classes. Global businesses operate within a dynamic,
volatile environment. This is most clearly observed in business, government and
other organizational responses to the current global financial crisis. This semester, the Seminar will use the
current crisis as the starting point to examine issues such as:
·
“Creative capitalism,” an idea first proposed by Bill
Gates
·
Emerging opportunities for social entrepreneurs
Additionally,
the seminar will help students understand further the managerial competences needed
for success in transnational organizations. Central to success in any global
organization is a deep understanding of culture. The International Business
Seminar will consolidate previous knowledge and experiences with culture.
Finally,
the International Business Seminar will provide a platform for continued,
in-depth scholarly research in international business.
Course Connections
Capstone courses are integrative. They utilize previous knowledge learned as the platform for new, high-order thinking. Thus, this course will draw on your previous learnings in macroeconomics, international economics, management, international marketing, international finance and courses that meet Dominican area requirements (history, modern foreign language, fine arts, etc.).
Our
course supports the broad goals of the Brennan School of Business to:
1) Appreciate the ethical foundation of
effective long-run business decisions and promote social responsibility in
managerial decision making – this will be accomplished through discussion
of social responsibility and poverty;
2) Communicate effectively in written and
verbal forms – this will be achieved through class participation and your
in-depth research project;
3) Utilize technology and electronic learning
effectively – this will be achieved through the continuous use of Blackboard
in the course; though the use of Powerpoint presentations and access to
databases;
4) Become critical thinkers – this will be
accomplished through class discussion and the International Business Issue:
Controversy and Contention.
BAD 250, BAD 255, BAD 375 and Econ
376 are prerequisites for this course.
Course Objectives
·
To explore the changing nature and
definition of capitalism
·
To understand the role of social
entrepreneurs in creating wealth
·
To analyze critically current
international business activities
·
To conduct research on a
multidisciplinary topic in international business
Textbook
Lane, H., Maznevski, M., DiStefano,
J. and Dietz, J. (2009). International Management Behavior:
Leading with a Global Mindset.
Course Assignments
|
Participation
in a minimum of two C4GPTC activities |
20% |
|
Research
paper |
40% |
|
International
Business Issue : Controversy & Contention (Powerpoint Presentation) |
15% |
|
Class
Participation |
25% |
|
TOTAL |
100% |
Research
Project
You will
be asked to carry out a semester-long research project on an international
business topic of interest to you.
Topics can be anything, but they must meet the following criteria:
1)
Sufficiently complex enough to justify a semester’s worth
of research and writing;
2)
Innovative so that they extend rather than repeat the
student’s international business knowledge
You will
work with me to define a reasonable topic.
You will be asked to prepare a preliminary proposal, an annotated
bibliography, a topic outline and a rough draft before submitting your final
paper. If you have chosen a foreign
language concentration as part of your international business major, you will
be asked to demonstrate language competency in your research paper as
well.
Course
Calendar (Subject to Change)
|
Our
class beginning on |
Topic |
Assignment
due |
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September
2 |
Class
Introductions/Overview |
|
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September
7 |
Labor
Day (Monday) Creative
Capitalism |
|
|
September
14 |
Social
Entrepreneurship |
C4GPTC
– Sept. 15 (T) Biodiesel
in Dr.
Kathleen Robbins, Director, Clean Energy, |
|
September
21 |
Social
Entrepreneurship |
Blackboard
Discussion |
|
September
28 |
Chapter
1: Culture and Management (FB2B) |
Material
World Analysis |
|
October
5 |
Chapter
2: How Do Cultural Differences Affect the Way We Work? (FB2B) |
C4GPTC
– Oct. 7 (W) The
Power of Commerce for Social Good Breakfast
keynote: Michael Strong, Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious
Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems Luncheon
Keynote: Alex Counts, President and
|
|
October
12 |
Chapter
3: But Do they Understand? Communicating Across Cultures (FB2B) |
|
|
October
19 |
Chapter
4: Creating Cultural Synergy (FB2B) |
|
|
October
26 |
Chapter
5: Succeeding in Multicultural Teams (FB2B) |
First
Draft Paper Due |
|
November
2 |
Chapter
6: Global Leadership, Motivation and Decision Making (FB2B) |
|
|
November
9 |
Chapter
7: Negotiating Successfully Across Cultures (FB2B) |
|
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November
16 |
Paper
revisions |
Blackboard
Discussions |
|
November
23 |
Thanksgiving
|
|
|
November
30 |
Chapter
10: Global Careers (FB2B) |
C4GPTC
– Dec. 2 (W) Global
Health Issues in Lisa
Bakker,
|
|
December
7 |
|
Final
Paper Due |
|
December
14 |
Exam
Week |
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism
is using the ideas and/or writings of another and claiming them as one's own.
Plagiarism is most often thought of copying, word for word, what someone else
has written and passing it off as one's own. Plagiarism is also the very
similar copying of someone else's words and/or ideas without attribution. Thus,
it is still plagiarism if two sentences, two paragraphs, or two papers appear
to be almost similar even though there are some differences. Plagiarism is best
avoided by carefully acknowledging the sources of one's words and/or ideas. Student
work found to be plagiarized will be given an F.