Leadership in Global Enterprise
Graduate/Post Graduate Certificate

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LGE 601 Leading Global Strategy and Innovation
This course enables participants to explore linkages between the strategic plan, mission, vision, and culture of innovation of their enterprises, and emerging trends, organizational capabilities, and unmet market needs worldwide. Instruction will emphasize variations in strategic planning for successful local and international initiatives in ascending and descending global economies, recognizing vital cross-border cultural environments. The program opens with a one week introductory virtual residency that: 1) provides classroom navigational training; 2) reviews several personal leadership assessment reports; 3}introduces each student to his/her leadership coach and 4) establishes the concept and importance of technology assisted decision-making dashboards applied to enterprise level alternative strategy solution.

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LGE 602 Leading Global Finance and Operations
This course, first, examines global financial leadership through macro and comparative economics (within the context of national culture); and second develops broad conceptual frameworks for evaluating and leading global business operations including process, quality, capacity, and inventory.

First, many distinctive aspects of an economy stem from the nature of its institutions and the humanly constructed rules that structure economic, political and social interactions. The origin and formation of values, beliefs, and institutions are essential elements of a particular country’s economic history and economic development. We will observe that institutions are usually available only in discrete alternatives, which often differ considerably.  However, an essential characteristic of many institutions is that they apply to a whole society resulting in a diminished scope for observational variation if study is confined to one country or one type of economic system. Cross-country comparisons are required before an effective financial strategy can be developed.

Second, operations are affected when countries or regions experience currency and/or economic stress. This creates increased exposure to certain risks, but also new profit opportunities. Potential increased risks include, among other things, higher receivable delinquencies and bad debts, delays or cancelations of sales and orders, higher local currency financing costs and slowdown in established financial services activities. New profit opportunities include, among other things, more opportunities for lower cost outsourcing, expansion of industrial and financial services activities through purchases of companies or assets at reduced prices and lower U.S. debt financing costs.

The final component of the course is the Program’s second one week virtual residency, during which participants will build their second dashboard integrating macro and comparative economic concepts for uploading enterprise data crucial to financial and operational decision making for global growth and sustainable business practice.

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LGE 603 Leading Global Marketing and Entrepreneurship
This course provides information essential to building a successful entrepreneurial, borderless marketing effort, by understanding local markets and country risk, and then developing efficient strategies for the allocation of organizational resources through the practice of marketing return on investment (mROI). Participants will examine concepts of randomness (risk and uncertainty), complexity, and discontinuity within global markets. Viral marketing, web 2.0 tools (collaborative and social networks) are introduced critiqued and applied.  As a final component of the course, participants will complete the Program’s third, one week residency, building their third dashboard to assist in determining the optimum allocation of resources among products and product lines in a global environment..

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LGE 604 Technology Assisted Decision-Making, Global Internet Security, and Knowledge Management
The course opens with an examination of cognitive weakness and bias in decision-making and how technology can help to neutralize them.  Leveraging the information component of an organization is achieved by first, fostering a proprietary knowledge culture and identifying and capturing institutional knowledge, and second, by building a state-of-the-art infrastructure to protect, store, access and disseminate knowledge across borders.  A holistic view of knowledge management with immediate relevance for each participant’s global workspace is examined.  Finally, a risk-based security model is introduced to quarantine and eliminate threats & vulnerabilities to that knowledge, and the countermeasures necessary to better secure information. . The Program’s concluding one week virtual residency provides a final round of assessments to measure learning against initial baseline assessments.  As a culminating experience of the program, each student will conduct a mini-class demonstrating applications of her or his finished dashboard.