MOB7170 Developing International Ventures
3.00 credits
Draws upon and integrates insight from fields of strategy, entrepreneurship, and corporate finance to improve practice in developing, justifying, and managing international ventures (or strategic investments) in multinational corporations. Focuses on complexities unique to international ventures, e.g. differential inflation, changing exchange rates. host and home country controls, and incentives and how such factors influence risk-return tradeoffs among various form of cross-border business activity: licensing, export, greenfield investment, joint ventures, acquisitions and mergers,
and project finance. Cases are drawn from industry settings in both developed and developing economies. (3.0 credits)
Prerequisite: MOB7000 or MOB8400 or completion of one-year or two-year modules
This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring