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.
Accommodation & Travel:
Accommodation & Travel Information
Contact:
Başak Yalman (byalman@ku.edu.tr)
Yasemin Soydaş (ysoydas@ku.edu.tr)
Yale will host the first Global Network Week for faculty this month. The four-day program, which begins on July 21, is aimed at fostering collaboration among network faculty members with an interest in sustainability and building connections between faculty members and business professionals. It was organized by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
Representatives from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, which recently partnered with Yale SOM and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, will join faculty to discuss the organization’s Action2020 plan to enhance sustainability practices at top companies around the world.
The event was inspired by the network’s successful Global Network Weeks, during which students from throughout the network travel for weeklong courses alongside colleagues from peer schools.
Stuart DeCew, program director at the Center for Business and the Environment, says that the program is aimed at generating new approaches to pressing social and environmental challenges. “The goal is to create a collaborative environment where these two networks—one of multinational companies and one of top global business schools—can find the common areas where business schools can improve the impact businesses are having,” DeCew says.
One panel will focus on Natural Capital: Managing Risks and Opportunities in Global Resource Systems, a Global Network Course first taught in January that drew on the perspectives of visiting business leaders in analyzing natural resource issues facing companies. The week will also include sessions on designing new potential Global Network Courses, on effective sustainability case studies, on extending sustainability topics into executive education programs, on training students to work together across time zones in online teams, and on tools from the WBSCD that can be used in the classroom.
Global issues like sustainability require multiple perspectives and the network assembles wide-ranging expertise to help shape long-term solutions, DeCew says. “The answers are messy and complex, but you have to sort that out as a leader,” he says. “People in multinational companies and NGOs are interfacing with their colleagues in China, India, and Norway all at the same time to solve these problems. We need to find ways to work on these problems with a global mindset and do it effectively.”