Competing in the Global Business Environment

Course Code
STRATEGY 503
Hours
1.5 hours
Type
Core
Offered
  • Fall 23 (A)
  • Fall 23 (B)
  • Winter 23 (A)
Prerequisites
FTMBA or Evening MBA or Strategy 591

Competing in the Global Business Environment --- This MBA core course provides students with the concepts, tools, and institutional knowledge necessary to conduct in-depth analyses of the global competitive landscape. The goal is to understand the underlying mechanisms that drive globalization, shape the international business environment, and influence the capabilities and strategies of individual businesses. -- We focus on how companies firm-specific international competitiveness and strategic options are influenced by: exchange rate movements, risk and volatility; location-specific market-based comparative and competitive advantage and non-market institutions; government fiscal, monetary, trade and investment policies, domestic politics, culture, and international organizations. -- Given the challenges and opportunities of operating across borders, how do companies make sourcing, production and distribution decisions in a global context, and how do these business decisions themselves shape globalization, its domestic socio-economic-political impacts, and companies' own competitiveness?

Taught By
Jordan Siegel
  • Professor of Strategy
  • Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow
Jordan Siegel is a Professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Professor Siegel is also a Research Fellow at the...
Yue Maggie Zhou
  • Associate Professor of Strategy
Yue Maggie Zhou is an associate professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Her research is in the areas of...
Dongni Wan
  • LEO Lecturer I in Strategy