MSA 515 - International Strategy and Management

Spring, 2009 - Course Materials

Essay exam grading will take about a week or so, grades will be entered as soon as grading is completed.

MSA 515 Course Syllabus

Final Exam Questions

Presentation and Skoda grades

Group case for presentation (Skoda Auto)

Link to Nationmaster.com, good source of international data

Link to Hernando de Soto Lecture
You will need to download "real player" - free 10 sec download at real player download

GEM 2007 Executive Summary Report

Reading Assignment from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on Globalization and Europe (8 pages, June 2006).
Good discussion of globalization, but please read to learn a little more about the history of the modern European economy


Interesting Reading Assignment from Hudson Institute - 2007 Index of Global Philanthropy
Read Part I (skip part II) if interested, Hudson Intitute has recently put together a Global Engagement Index


LECTURE SLIDES

Lecture 1 (1/7): Complexities of international enterprise

Lecture 2 (1/12): Overview of Basic Strategy Concepts

Lecture 3 (1/14): Overview of International Market Structures

Lecture 4 (1/21): Exporting Strategies

Lecture 5 (1/26): International Licensing Strategies

Lecture 6 (1/28): Tuni and G Mini-Case - read prior to class; discuss in class

Lecture 6 (1/28): Discussion points - China Trade

Lecture 7 (2/2): Cultural Differences - Hofstede's Model

GROUP PRESENTATION SLIDES

World Trade Organization

Sustainable Environments

Eastern Europe

Bribery

Economics between Europe and U.S.

NAFTA

International Wages