Global Business Syllabus

Global Business will help participants assess opportunities, mitigate risk, and create and capture value for their organization.
The course explores the economic, political, and social factors driving change, and participants will learn how decisions affect
global markets—and their business.

Modules Takeaways Leaders Interviewed

• Interpret data on countries’ macro- • Bryant Ambelang, NatureSweet

economic and political performance
Module 1

Macroeconomic and
Political Analysis • Craig Boyan, H-E-B

• Cynthia Carroll, formerly of Anglo

American
• Understand effects of taxation,
government spending, and monetary
Economic
Module 2

policy on the business environment

• Christopher Finn, The Carlyle Group
Conditions and
Your Business
• Andrew Gilchrist, formerly of Egon
Zehnder and Financial Times

• Understand the role of government in

the modern economy
• Ellen Guidera, Portillo Ski Resort
Module 3

Political Order • Analyze political risks to business and Tierra Hotels

and Disorder strategy

• Ray Mabus, former US Secretary of

the Navy

• Understand how cross-border flows

of goods and capital affect firms’ and • Anand Mahindra, Mahindra Group
Business and the nations’ competitive positions
Module 4

Interconnected • Analyze effects of environmental

World change on the competitive landscape • George Yong-Boon Yeo, Kerry
Logistics Network

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