Universitas Indonesia Hosts Global Network Leadership

May 17, 2016

Koç University Graduate School of Business (Turkey)

City:

Istanbul, Turkey

Topic & Description:

From Local to Global: Concepts, Frameworks, and Analytical Tools Necessary to Develop an Effective Global Strategy

Globalization has changed the dynamics of business irrevocably. Today’s companies must operate on a much larger scale and in an environment of global competitiveness where product development, market needs, customers’ targets must take into account multiple cultures, collaborations and regional developments. Even for companies that do not intend to “go abroad,” the entry of foreign companies into their home markets makes a better understanding of global strategy a necessity if not a requisite for survival. The goal of this course is to introduce you to concepts, frameworks, and analytical tools necessary to develop an effective global strategy. There will be case studies and a presentation by student group teams on companies visited.

Program Schedule

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Accommodation & Travel Information

Contact:

Başak Yalman (byalman@ku.edu.tr)

Yasemin Soydaş (ysoydas@ku.edu.tr)

 

Topics included a Global Virtual Teams course in which several schools participated, a new online platform that would aggregate virtual courses, and future efforts to encourage working in teams.

Deans and directors from throughout the Global Network for Advanced Management met in Bali, Indonesia, at a meeting hosted by member school Universitas Indonesia, from April 20 to 22 to discuss progress on current initiatives, as well as new proposals for ways to leverage the network. Several schools shared their recent experiences with cross-network student teamwork.

Faculty and students who participated in the first Global Virtual Teams (GVT) course this year gave a presentation via videoconference call.

In the GVT course, students from HEC Paris, the Yale School of Management, and EGADE Business School formed virtual teams to collaborate on an operations simulation exercise. The students and faculty shared observations on the course’s strengths, as well as areas that could be improved.

Also presenting at the meeting were faculty from Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia; Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy; and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, who described a recent project in which their students collaborated—sometimes virtually—on social sector projects in India. Faculty members said they would like to see the network leveraged for more social impact projects. 

Yale SOM Dean Edward A. Snyder agreed, saying that GNAM schools need to seek new ways to make opportunities for varied virtual teamwork more widely available across member schools.

One suggestion for doing so came from deans at the ESMT Berlin, who called for creating integrated teams to compete in network-sponsored competitions. Instead of individual schools fielding their own teams—as done in the recent Global Network Investment Competition—teams would comprise a combination of students from different network schools, the deans explained.

The deans and directors also viewed a presentation on The Studnet, an online platform that could aggregate small network online courses (SNOCs), as well as social activities for students, on one site. Sauder is planning to host a SNOC on The Studnet later this year as a pilot to help determine if the entire network should adopt the platform in the future.

Also in the second half of 2016, Global Network schools will be asked to appoint student ambassadors to serve as liaisons between the school and the network. The deans and directors also agreed that the next student survey, following up on a successful survey on climate change in 2015, will focus on leadership. Preliminary survey results will be available by November.