List
of Possible Background Readings
Grades
Week 1
1/17 Course Introduction; Why go global?
Chapter 1
Chapter 8
Articles:
Global Economics: Did that Robot Take
my Job? http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/its-a-man-vs-machine-recovery-01052012.html
World News: Technology Widens Gap Between
Rich and Poor
Capitalism’s Waning Popularity
Week 2
1/26 Organization
of global operations
Current
Article: A view from Investors: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/u-s-economy-preferred-by-investors-in-global-poll-on-markets-1-.html
Week 3
1/31 Case Discussion: IKEA
Global Business Strategy Application: Benchmarking
Article: IKEA creative accounting: http://www.economist.com/node/6919139
2/2 Opportunity
Identification and Country Selection
Chapter 3, 10
The new Competitiveness Report
from the World Economic Forum in Davos (Potentially provides useful information for group
project, browse through, take a look at the rankings p.15)
Discussion of Project Report
Week 4
2/7 The Role of Global Trade; Global Trade Theory
Assignment 1 due
2/9 Economic analysis of
barriers to trade;
Guest Speaker: Professor Mel
Jameson