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Faculty/Staff Contacts: Kent Jones and Ken Matsuno
*Faculty contacts serve as "advisors" to those students who have an interest in the given concentration.
You should feel free to contact these faculty/staff with questions.
The concentration for Global Business Management is a multi-disciplinary stream that allows a student to take courses on the practice of management in a global context and to acquire a Global Mindset. The focus of the concentration is management of a global firm or the practice of management in a global context. The concentration combines course work in global management and global functions with an experiential component to experience global management directly, and allows for broadening of the understanding of the global management context by selecting from a broad offering of international economic courses and liberal arts offerings. Minimum competency levels in a second language add to the credibility of this concentration. Students will obtain a total of 16 credits as required below.
Required Courses: a) Objective: To build the base for Global Business Management.
Two courses (8 credits) required from the following:
• MOB3560-International Business Enterprises
• LAW3560-International Law for Business
• MKT4560-Global Marketing Strategy
• FIN4570-Global Financial Management
• MOB3579-Global Strategy (Inactive)
• MOB 3582- Global Management Communication
•EXP 3661 Culture, Society, and Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies
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b) Objective: To deepen the understanding for Global Business Management.
*One experience (minimum of 4 credits) is required from the following experiential options:
• Semester Abroad
• Joint-Management Consulting Field Experience (JMCFE) in partnership with a non-US university
• Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) with an international company/international content
• Offshore courses
• International Project/Independent Study
Please Note:
• Students who take courses during their education abroad experience must get approval from Concentration Advisor, in order to have any course fulfill a concentration requirement outlined in sections A and/or C.
• Joint-MCFEs (JMCFE) are managed through the Office of International Programs/Glavin Center. Currently, JMCFE projects are in partnership with the University of Applied Sciences in St. Gallen (WTT-FHS), Switzerland. Babson is continuing to identify other partner schools to expand this offering. MCFEs with international content include projects that are developed with sufficient international management content (either for a US or international firm). MCFE projects must be approved by the concentration contact.
• Offshore courses are offered both through the Office of International Programs and the Honors Program. Current programs include study in Russia, Londone, Uganda, Guana, Mexico, and South Africa.
• Independent project/study must be approved by the Glavin Center requiring content that will provide practical exposure to global setting.
* Students can be waived from this requirement by demonstrating that he/she has achieved the stated objective through previous experience. If a waiver is approved, the student must replace the experience requirement (4 credits) with an additional course listed in section A or C.
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c) Objective: Broadening the Understanding of Global Business Management
One course required (4 credits) from the following list (must be exclusive to either A or C):
• MOB3582-Global Management Communication (Pilot Course Offering)
• MOB3560-International Business Enterprises
• LAW3560-International Law for Business
• MKT4560-Global Marketing Strategy
• FIN4570-Global Financial Management
• MOB3579-Global Strategy (Inactive)
• ECN3625-Business Environment of the New Europe
• ECN3660-International Trade
• ECN3662-Political Economy of Latin American Development and Underdevelopment
• ECN3665-International Finance
• ECN3645- Business and Economic Policy in Developing Countries
• LAW3601- Public International Law
• EPS3515-Entrepreneurship: Key to Success Family Business Enterprises
• EPS3572-Entrepreneurship in Asia
• ANT 3672-World Religions in Everyday Life (Inactive)
• HIS3600- Understanding Post WWII Japan
• HIS3671-Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
• HIS3680-Modern China
• POL3676-European Politics at the Dawn of the 21st Century
• MDS 3600- Media and Identity in Postcolonial Indidan Society
• Language studies at the advanced level (3000-4000 series)
Glavin Center Scholar
Objective: To recognize those students with a more extensive international experience with the addition of global communications capabilities.
For those students who are interested, and/or have the interest in pursuing Global Business Management as a Glavin Center Scholar, the following must be fulfilled:
- Must submit a letter of intention to Colleen McGuire, Office of International Programs, which includes a description of your foreign language abilities as well as extensive international experiences.
- Must formally declare 'Global Business Management' Concentration via portal.
- Must complete all requirements of the 'Global Business Management' Concentration.
- Must pass a minimum Business Language Foreign Proficiency Test and receive certification of proficiency by Glavin Center panel of experts.
- Must complete an internship, education abroad experience, or related project residing in a different country with a different language*.
* Language other than English for US students, and/or other than mother tongue for international students.
All above nomination information is accepted on a rolling basis, but must be submitted in writing to Colleen McGuire at cmcguire@babson.edu no later than October 1, 2007 (for seniors graduating in December 2007) and March 1, 2008 (for seniors graduating in May 2008) to allow adequate time for the review process.
