BA 381 Multinational Management

Prof. Ruth Aguilera, Fall 2008

Announcements

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Something interesting to do and get course extra credit: AIESEC ILLINOIS

Required Readings

• Understanding and Managing the Multinational Firm

• The End of Corporate Imperialism summary

• Beyond Offshoring

• Competitive Advantage of Nations

• WK 4: Distance Still Matters

• WK 5: Two readings:  (1) What is a Global Manager? and (2) Yip and Coundouriotis (to be downloaded from electronic reserves)

• WK6: Controlling and Coordinating Multinational Firms (reading is posted on course e-reserve) + KFC case

• WK7:  Chrysler Turnaround (WSJ, Sept. 06)

• WK8: FIRST EXAM   [Mid-term Study Guide]

• Wk 9  EUROPEAN UNION WEEK -- chose ONE of these talks to attend --no class! Write up a one page (single space) essay summarizing the main points in the lecture and your reactions to it.   It is due on Tuesday Oct 28th in class.

• WK 10: CROSS-CULTURAL NEGOTIATION (one paragraph reaction e-mail due in 48 hours from negotation)

• WK 11 -- COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (Nov 4th):

  Aguilera (2004) Corporate Governance; Corporate Boards in Turmoil  (WSJ, Sept. 06)

  Global Corporate Governance  (Financial Times, Aguilera & Yip),  READ pp. 4-5;

  CEOs & Boards (Oct. 5th, 2006- WSJ)

  ESSAY DUE:  One page write-up answering the four questions in the syllabus.

• WK 12 EXPATRIATES (Nov 11):

  Case: Catskill Roads; Slides: Expatriate Assignments

  Adler, Cross-cultural transitions   (Please note that this is different than the one posted on e-reserve which was for week 10) [my apologies for the not perfect scanning]

  **pop quiz***

   

• WK 13 (Nov 18th) SECOND IN-CLASS EXAM

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!  FELIZ DIA DE ACCION DE GRACIAS!!!!

• WK 14 (Dec 2): FOREIGN MARKET ENTRY EXERCISE

  Case: "Freixenet: The Australian Challenge"  (CD in course pack)

  Readings on e-reserve: 

                         Kumar, V. and Subramaniam, V. “A Contingency Framework for the Mode of Entry Decision,” Journal of World Business, 32(1) (Spring 1997), pp. 53-72. 1

Horn, J. T., Lovallo. D. P., and Viguerie, S. P. 2005. “Beating the Odds in Market Entry,” The McKinsey Quarterly, 4: 35-45. 1

Slides on foreign entry mode

PLEASE READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FOR DVD

 

INDIVIDUAL CASE WRITE-UP QUESTIONS:

* What lessons can we draw from the Australian case? (80%)

* Within the Austral-Asian region, where should Freixenet go next? Why? (20%)

 

 

Individual Freixenet case write-up is due on Dec. 9th in class! [2 pages plus a page for graph/tables]

Non-required additional reading: Wine Globalization (WSJ, August 2006)

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO A SPARKLING PERFORMANCE!!!

• WK15 (Dec 9): Warp up & Guest Speaker

  (Ms. Lori Malatesta, recently "retired" from Amdocs)

  Individual Freixenet case write-up is due on Dec. 9th in class! [2 pages plus a page for graph/tables]

Additional (non-required) Readings

• Global Strategy, Ghoshal
• A Perspective on Regional and Global Strategies of MNCs, Rugman & Verbeke
• Horses for Courses
• WK Cross-cultural Negotiation: The Chinese Negotiation ; Negotiating with the Romans part 1   part 2

Assignments

Library Research Tools for your Class Assignments here

Second Individual Write-up

Syllabus

Student Presentations

wk2 Bloden, Gonzalez, Jackson & Pilev: Global Sports Market

wk3 Giglio, Lindsay, Miller & Schmitt: Global Beer Industry

WSJ article: From China, a New Challenger to the King of Beers, Sept. 11, 2008

wk4   Henderson, Pehlke, Phillips & Smith: Global Business Etiquette

wk5   Bobrecki, Ganzer, Sheehan & Young The Global Oil Industry

wk7   Beschorner, Grossi, Kelly & Slehofer The Financial Crisis of 2008

wk8   Aggarwal, Liang & Harmann: High End Restaurants around the World

wk9   Khalil, Kim, Novelli & Peng: Google: Technology Giant of the 21st century

wk10 Antezana, Armgardt, DeCanniere & Lorge:  International Trade Barriers