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Andrew Ng, Marcelo Bucheli, Carlos J. Torelli, Tina Girndt-Clougherty, and Maria Rodas

This specialization prepares students for the global challenges that businesses face in the 21st century. The global marketplace now and in the future spans emerging markets, a world connected by social media, and rapid technological advancements, hand in hand with huge challenges relating to migration patterns, multiculturalism, and increased competition. This specialization covers how business strategy is formulated at a global scale, how marketing and management practices are adapted to develop foreign markets, and how businesses can navigate the challenges of increasing multiculturalism in consumer markets and organizational teams. The specialization provides students with actionable frameworks to guide both expansions into foreign markets and the development of ethnic markets at home.

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This specialization prepares students for the global challenges that businesses face in the 21st century. The global marketplace now and in the future spans emerging markets, a world connected by social media, and rapid technological advancements, hand in hand with huge challenges relating to migration patterns, multiculturalism, and increased competition. This specialization covers how business strategy is formulated at a global scale, how marketing and management practices are adapted to develop foreign markets, and how businesses can navigate the challenges of increasing multiculturalism in consumer markets and organizational teams. The specialization provides students with actionable frameworks to guide both expansions into foreign markets and the development of ethnic markets at home.

Upon completion of the specialization, you will:

Understand how businesses function and pursue opportunities in the global marketplace. Understand cultural frameworks for making marketing and management decisions across cultural boundaries. Develop marketing plans for penetrating foreign markets of consumers with different cultures. Understand how to manage a global organization. Develop marketing strategies that resonate with ethnic segments (e.g., Hispanics). Understand the benefits and challenges of managing multicultural teams in organizations.

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Six courses

Global Strategy I: How The Global Economy Works

Starting in the late 1990s, “globalization” became a buzzword to describe the apparent integration of markets in the world economy. This course seeks to help you understand the forces of globalization and how cross-cultural management is becoming more and more critical in today’s global economy.

Global Strategy II: Doing Business in The Global Economy

This course explores how firms overcome challenges when operating globally, a process characterized by complexity and uncertainty. Corporations trying to succeed in the global economy need to develop different types of strategies depending on where they are conducting business or industry they are in.

Global Marketing: Cultural Frameworks

This course reviews the dramatic changes Globalization has brought to businesses. Markets are growing culturally diverse and companies face the challenge of managing an increasingly culturally diverse workforce. It is then increasingly important for managers to incorporate cultural variables into their decision making models.

Global Marketing: Building Iconic Brands

Global Marketing: Iconic Brands guides the process of crafting a culturally focused marketing plan for a global expansion. It introduces the key steps for developing a global marketing plan, starting with an environmental analysis of the new markets to be developed.

Global Impact: Cross-Cultural Management

With globalization, multiculturalism is on the rise. Managers need to lead a workforce composed of individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. This course introduces the fundamentals of multicultural management by describing the impact of culture on interpersonal processes in organizations, discussing how culture shapes communication, leadership, negotiation, and teamwork.

Global Impact: Multiculturalism

This course explores the fundamentals of multicultural marketing, examining how culture shapes consumer behavior and decision-making. It delves into multicultural consumer segments, generational and regional subcultures, and advertising strategies tailored for diverse markets.

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