Dynamics of Globalization

Strategy and Innovation

Dates: Jun 05-06, 2013

Certificate Track: Strategy and Innovation

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Tuition: $2,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days (for certificate credit): 2

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This new program will explore how various countries and ﬁrms are successfully meeting the challenge of increasing globalization. The material will be presented from three complementary angles— economic, sociological, and political science—that together will help managers develop a broad perspective on the issues of globalization. Faculty and participants will trace the implications of global competition on the economy, politics, and emerging markets. Examples that represent different regions and types of organizations—multinational and local ﬁrms from both developing nations and industrialized countries—will be presented throughout the program.

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Many participants attend this program along with Understanding Global Markets.

Participants will learn what to look for in analyzing country business environments and in exploring comparative advantage. With a focus on how the dynamics of globalization is affecting emerging markets, politics, and the world economy, this program will enable participants to:

Learn the key growth requirements for countries as well as large companies
Employ frameworks to compare changes in the business and regulatory environment
Compare and contrast the developmental trajectories of indigenous firms
Analyze the effects of politics and the economy on countries and firms
Recognize how international business decisions affect not only a company's bottom line, but also a country's environment and the well being of its people
Identify market innovations in developing countries
Understand global energy related innovations

This program is designed specifically for managers who are involved with developing corporate, business, or functional strategies at their organizations:

Middle to upper-managers, senior executives, and entrepreneurs with responsibility for or interest in managing multinational corporations or expanding operations into new and emerging markets
General managers of global companies, or companies with international clients
Fast-track operations managers seeking to broaden their knowledge and expand their understanding of the effects of globalization

Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

Roberto Rigobon

Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
Professor of Applied Economics

Roberto Rigobon is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting professor at IESA. Since joining MIT Sloan in 1997, he has won the "Teacher of the Year" award three times and received the "Excellence in Teaching" award three times.
His areas of research are international economics, monetary economics, and development economics...
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Roberto Rigobon is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting professor at IESA. Since joining MIT Sloan in 1997, he has won the "Teacher of the Year" award three times and received the "Excellence in Teaching" award three times.

His areas of research are international economics, monetary economics, and development economics. Roberto focuses on the causes of balance-of-payments crises, financial crises, and the propagation of them across countries—the phenomenon that has been identified in the literature as "contagion." He studies properties of international pricing practices, and is one of the two researchers behind how the Federal Reserve in the US determines its interest rate policy when there is a shock in the stock market index, and what is the impact of monetary policy shocks on asset prices.

He holds a PhD in economics from MIT, an MBA from IESA (Venezuela),and his BS in electrical engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar (Venezuela). (less)
Edward Steinfeld

Associate Professor

Edward Steinfeld, a China specialist, focuses his teaching and research on institutional reform and industrial upgrading in emerging economies.
His most recent book , Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West (Oxford, 2010), examines the political and economic ramifications of China’s integration into global industrial production...
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Edward Steinfeld, a China specialist, focuses his teaching and research on institutional reform and industrial upgrading in emerging economies.
His most recent book , Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West (Oxford, 2010), examines the political and economic ramifications of China’s integration into global industrial production. The book argues that China’s participation in globalized production has induced political change within China at the same time it has accelerated industrial innovation within the United States.
Steinfeld’s current research focuses on the development of the Chinese energy sector, as well as global efforts to develop new energy-related technologies.
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Tavneet Suri

Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor
Associate Professor of Applied Economics

Tavneet Suri is a development economist who studies the evolution of markets and various market failures in the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. Her main areas of focus are agriculture and formal and informal financial access, such as the adoption of seed technologies in Kenya and the extent of informal risk-pooling mechanisms in rural Kenya... ... (more)
Tavneet Suri is a development economist who studies the evolution of markets and various market failures in the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. Her main areas of focus are agriculture and formal and informal financial access, such as the adoption of seed technologies in Kenya and the extent of informal risk-pooling mechanisms in rural Kenya. Suri's ongoing research includes understanding the adoption and impact of mobile money (M-PESA) in Kenya; the role of infrastructure in agricultural markets in Sierra Leone; the diffusion of improved coffee-farming practices through social networks in Rwanda; and the role of different types of formal and informal collateral in credit markets for assets in Kenya. She regularly spends time in the field, managing her various research projects and data collection activities.
Suri is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR); and co-director of the Agriculture Research Program at the International Growth Center. (less)

DAY One SAMPLE
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Introduction to the Edges of Globalization
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Market Innovation in Africa
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM	Luncheon
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM	Natural Capital and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM	Natural Capital and the Challenge of Sustainable Development cont.
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM	Reception
DAY Two SAMPLE
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Comparative Advantages 1
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Comparative Advantages 2
12:15 PM - 01:00 PM	Luncheon
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM	Growth and Why Rich Countries are Rich, and Poor are Poor
02:45 PM - 04:15 PM	The Edges of Globalization Close
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM	Adjournment

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