Global Business

To Specialize in Global Business, students must enroll in 12.00 credits of elective courses. Students must enrol in 3.00 Credits of the Required course and a minimum of 3.00 credits from the Recommended Electives list. Students must also complete at least one International Credit-Based Experience*

*International Credit-Based Experiences consist of any international course/experience that results in Schulich credit, including but not limited to, shortand full- exchanges at partner schools; global consulting projects (e.g. GIO); Schulich courses that require international travel (e.g. SGMT 6151), credit-bearing international internships, and study tours. Please contact the Specialization Director Professor Farrokh Zandi at fzandi@schulich.yorku.ca with questions about how to fulfill this specialization.

Required Course

• MGMT 6610 3.00 DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL BUSINESS

  An understanding of international business is essential for students in today's interdependent world. This course will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and ability to understand the global economic, political, cultural and social environment within which firms operate. It will examine the strategies and structures of international business. The course will also prepare students to formulate and execute strategies, plans, and tactics to succeed in international business ventures.
  Prerequisite/Corequisite: ECON 5100 3.00

A minimum of 3.00 Credits of the Following Recommended Electives

• FINE 6400 3.00 MANAGING RISK IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

  Investors and businesses with access to global markets often need to make decisions in response to unpredictable global changes and risks. In this practical course, we will discuss the major risk issues relevant to international markets and explore measures to manage and mitigate them. We will also cover topics such as valuation, trade finance and capital markets in international context.
  Prerequisite: SB/FINE 5200 3.00

• FINE 6775 3.00 CREDIT MARKETS: CORPORATE AND PROJECT FINANCE

  Managing credit risk is, perhaps, the fastest growing discipline in financial services due to its global complexity and dynamic nature. Focusing on how global credit markets work, regulatory reforms and products, this course will explore these markets, stakeholders and credit portfolio management theory and practice in Global Financial Institutions.
  Prerequisite: FINE 5200 3.00

• OMIS 6560 3.00 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

  This course is about how to make decisions that lead to the better design and management of supply chains. This often involves changing the network of relationships between suppliers and customers and other stakeholders as they design, contract, order, plan and coordinate goods and services together. This course covers essential quantitative supply chain management models, supportive information and ecommerce technologies, environmentally and socially responsible practices and customer-supplier relationship management.
  Prerequisites: OMIS 5110 1.50, OMIS 5120 1.50 and OMIS 5210 1.50

• SGMT 6050 3.00 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

  We examine motives, techniques and management issues associated with mergers and acquisitions. Through lectures and readings, we explore the people, the concepts and the challenges involved in mergers and acquisitions. Assignments and discussions around real situations expose students to the complexities and the managerial challenges that are unique to acquiring and integrating organizations.
  Prerequisite or Corequisite: SGMT 5200 3.00 or SGMT 6000 3.00

• SGMT 6720 3.00 MANAGING GLOBALLY - PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

  Many of the challenges facing global companies today are not new and we can learn from the past to meet those challenges today and prepare for the future. This course explores the parallels between the issues multinationals face today and those they faced in the past. Based on historical and contemporary cases, you will get insights and practical tools to manage in the current global environment and develop the necessary skills to address future challenges.

Additional Electives

• MGMT 6400 3.00 INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOUR

  This course takes students from the classroom into the field where they can see how the theoretical study of business (as well as government policy and NGOs) translates into the practical. It is also designed to enhance students’ understanding of management, organizations, government policy and economics by examining these phenomena in the context of countries very different from Canada.
  Prerequisites: A minimum of 15 credits of 5000-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses

• SUST 6151 3.00 INNOVATING FOR SUSTAINABLE IMPACT

  The purpose of this course is to explore how social innovation can be used to build more sustainable and impactful solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges. Despite the incredible progress in the overall level of human development over the past century, a number of significant global challenges persist in both developed and developing countries, including generational poverty, discrimination, corruption, and climate change. This is primarily a project-based course with a focus on working directly with disadvantaged populations in Costa Rica to collectively identify innovative business models that are capable of providing meaningful work to such individuals.

Global-Focused courses offered at Exchange Partners**

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