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International Business Environment and Global Strategy
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- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Hindi
Course details
Syllabus
The course will be three weeks long. The different weeks will focus on the following:
Week 1
- In-depth analysis of Japan’s social, political, economic and institutional environment
- The contextual underpinning of the economic bubble and how it burst and led to Japan’s Lost Decade of the nineties
- Aspects of the historical context, such as Japan’s relations with China, and how that defines contemporary relations between the two countries
- The role of charismatic leaders, such as former Prime Minister Koizumi, in changing institutions
- The role played by diverse stakeholders, including the mafia
- Challenges faced by contemporary Japan, such as the ageing population, redefining the role of women, stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship, and meeting skill shortages, possibly through immigration
- Prime Minister Abe’s strategy to put Japan on a path of sustainable growth with the three arrows of “Abenomics”
Week 2
- Framework for country analysis
- Brief review at the South Korean environment after the Second World War and the crisis during the late nineties
- Brief glimpses of the environments of Singapore, Chile and Turkey
- The strategy of a successful global company, McDonald’s, for addressing challenges when entering a turbulent and unfamiliar environment, that of the former Soviet Union
Week 3
- Company strategies for addressing opportunities and challenges in complex environments
- Case of ITC in rural India
- Case of pricing of AIDS drugs in South Africa
- The role of the WTO and important stakeholders, like NGOs, in shaping the global rules of the game and affecting company strategies and human welfare
- Wrap up
Prerequisite
Instructors
Sushil Vachani
Former Director
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
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