International Business (MS)

Program Educational Goals

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Learning Goals | Knowledge

• Develop an understanding of the opportunities and challenges that managers, in the smallest entrepreneurial startup to the largest multinational enterprise, navigate to conduct business internationally.
• Expand awareness of the dimensions and dynamics of the economic, social, political, institutional, investment, trade, monetary, cultural, and legal environments that shape decision-making.
• Interpret academic frameworks and practitioner perspectives that shape contemporary interpretation of globalization and international business.
• Integrate theoretical principles and applied practices to analyze managerial effectiveness and company performance.
• Assess how managers direct international activities responsibly, ethically, fairly, and sustainably.
• Recognize the opportunities and challenges that influence how entrepreneurs and executives interpret, open, and operate international activities.

 

Learning Goals | Skills

• Demonstrate problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and integrated reasoning skills.

• Integrate aspects of leadership, communication, and collaboration.

 

Learning Goals | Abilities

• Improve organizing and manipulating information to see relationships and to solve multiple interrelated problems.
• Refine understanding of the nuances of the cultural dimensions of international business activities.
• Enrich emotional intelligence through interaction with a diversity of people and perspectives

 

Learning Goals | Perspectives

• Expand and enrich one’s global mindset in terms of effectively interpreting the outlooks and orientations of individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions around the world.
• Expand and enrich one’s cultural mindset via directly participating in a diversity of interpersonal, and social contexts.
• Expand and enrich one’s digital mindset in terms of effectively mapping and modeling the technological transformation of business activity done internationally.
• Expand and enrich one’s business mindset to productively navigate the opportunities and challenges that support productive, purposeful, and profitable business activity.