STRT-571 International Business Environment

Faculty:

Nollen, Stanley

Objectives and Topics. The course equips students with decision making tools for managing the firm’s international business, and it educates them in the economic and political environment in which international business is conducted. The major topic areas of the course are as follows:

International Business Decisions
(1) International trade theory and policy - what determines exports and imports and why and how governments regulate trade
(2) International investment theory and practice - foreign direct and portfolio investment and the firm’s decision about its mode of international business participation
(3) Exchange rates and balance of payments - how exchange rates are determined and how they affect international business

Macroeconomic and Political Environment
(4) Macroeconomic and macropolitical environment - the structure and functioning of the economy and polity in which international businesses operate
(5) Macroeconomic policy - monetary and fiscal policy objectives that meet voters’ preferences, with policy methods and outcomes.

Credits: 1.5

Prerequisites: MBA 1st Years Only

STRT-571-44 Business & Public Policy

Faculty:

Quinn, Dennis

We have no STRT-571 course description for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Credits: 1.5

Prerequisites: 1st Year Evening MBA Students Only

Other academic years
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• 2005-2006 Fall and Spring
• 2006-2007 Fall and Spring
• 2007-2008 Fall and Spring
• 2008-2009 Fall and Spring
• 2009-2010 Fall and Spring
• 2010-2011 Fall and Spring
• 2011-2012 Fall and Spring
• 2012-2013 Fall and Spring

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