MBA in Global Strategic Management

The Master of Business Administration in Global Strategic Management (MBA-GSM) addresses emerging workplace needs while retaining an emphasis in international/regional expertise. The MBA-GSM teaches students how the world of global management works and gives them the ability to step beyond current business models or self-imposed limitations.
MBA-GSM students are provided various short and long-term opportunities to study abroad, gaining and applying knowledge at a wide variety of international locations. Program faculty comprises experienced academics and seasoned working professionals who bring the latest in business thinking, theory, techniques, and application into the classroom. Upon graduation students will be ready to use their degree-based knowledge to create innovative and more effective working environments. MBA-GSM graduates ethically lead change in an interdependent, technologically intensive, and dynamic global environment.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge of the impact of ethics and culture on international management and communication.
2. Ability to apply concepts from the disciplines of economics, finance, marketing, and management within international and cultural frameworks.
3. Knowledge of international, regional, economic and political issues.
4. Comprehension of the interdependence between business decisions and sustainable development.
5. Willingness and ability to work in and successfully manage within conditions of uncertainty, risk, change, and interdependence.
6. Ability to conduct business through independent reasoning, creativity, and analytical processes.
7. Skills to work individually within a cross-cultural team setting.
8. Responsibility to lead in an ethically and socially acceptable manner.
9. Proficiency to integrate technological advancements.
10. Knowledge of how personal value systems, interests, aptitudes, skills, and goals are linked to the development of professional career goals.

In order to achieve these expectations, the MBA-GSM program features a core curriculum that focuses students on the major disciplines of business: accounting, finance, marketing, strategic management, and organizational behavior. Core courses provide broad functional knowledge in one discipline; electives provide a narrow focus that deepens an area of study. Students can select a more generalized international area of study, or they can focus on a region.

Program Description

Graduates of the Master of Business Administration in Global Strategic Management (MBA-GSM) will display a mastery of the foundation areas of accounting, finance, human resource management, information technology, marketing, and strategic management to the degree that they will be able to effectively manage cross-cultural projects in any of these functional areas – even those outside their area of specialist knowledge. Acquisition of business research and problem-solving skills will allow them to procure and evaluate critically the information necessary to make managerial decisions within a global context, while nuanced analysis and decision-making skills will enable them to function effectively in the global business environment. An understanding of the global context in which most organizations now compete and an in-depth knowledge of a chosen region are imparted through the use of current examples and case studies from around the world.

The MBA-GSM seeks to impart an ability to create and innovate more effective ways of doing global business. Graduates learn to work effectively in teams, especially in the global context, and to communicate and demonstrate the value of teamwork in business settings.

Program Format

Students can complete the MBA–GSM in 12 months of full-time study if the prerequisites or the equivalent undergraduate course work have already been completed.

The MBA-GSM curriculum includes:

• Worldwide Regional Studies (including cross-cultural awareness)
• Global Management Techniques
• Fundamental Business Requirements

From this three-branch hub, courses are sequenced and integrated to build upon each other – from Core to Topic Domain to Capstone – and to maximize learning.

The MBA-GSM curriculum consists of:

• A required Core (24 units)
• A customized Topic Domain (9 units)
• A Capstone course (3 units)

All students must take the entire Core and a Topic Domain.

The Capstone

An innovative and exciting aspect of the MBA-GSM is the Capstone project. The Capstone is completed during the last trimester of the program and is designed to offer students the opportunity to apply and demonstrate their mastery of core courses and their in-depth international knowledge.

Course Requirements

The MBA-GSM Curriculum:

Prerequisites:

GSM 5002 Financial and Managerial Accounting (3 units)
GSM 5003 Statistics/Quantitative Analysis and Research Methods (3 units)
GSM 5004 Finance (3 units)

Previous undergraduate course work with at least a ‘B’ grade may substitute for Prerequisites.

Total Prerequisites 12 units

Required Core:

GSM 5113 Business Communications I (1.5 units)
GSM 5114 Business Communications II (1.5 units)
GSM 5117 International Marketing Management (3 units)
GSM 5120 Global Information Management and E-Business (3 units)
GSM 5121 International Financial and Managerial Accounting (3 units)
GSM 5123 Strategic Management (3 units)
GSM 5126 Global Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (3 units)
GSM 5140 International Corporate Finance (3 units)
GSM 5146 World Cultures and International Business (3 units)

Total Core 24 units

International Topic Domains

Select 9 units from current courses offered:

GSM 5111 Globalization: Concepts and Effects (3 units)
GSM 5115 Corporate Finance
GSM 5118 Global Operations and Supply Chain Management (3 units)
GSM 5130 Government/Corporate Partnership in Asia Pacific (3 units)
GSM 5131 Diversity, Growth, and Development in Asia Pacific (3 units)
GSM 5133 The Business Culture of Asia Pacific (3 units)
GSM 5136 Labor Unions and Corporate Governance in Europe (3 units)
GSM 5137 European Business Practices: Impact of Culture and Language (3 units)
GSM 5138 European Economic Union in the World Economy (3 units)
GSM 5142 Special Topics A-Z (Asia Pacific Focus) (3 units)
GSM 5145 Special Topics A-Z (European Focus) (3 units)
GSM 5150 Leading Change & Organization Development (3 units)
GSM 5151 Building and Leading teams for International Business (3units)
GSM 5200 Executive Study Abroad (3 units)
GSM 5210 Spanish for Business (3 units)
GSM 5211 French for Business (3 units)
GSM 5212 German for Business (3 units)

Total International Domain 9 units

Capstone:

GSM 5135 Capstone: Project Management/Corporate Research/Internship (3 units)

Total Capstone 3 units

Total MBA-GSM Major 36 Units

Requirements for Admission

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