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CLASS PICTURES, 2000

MB40: International Business is a six credit graduate course.  It is a requirement for the International Business concentration in the MBA program, and an elective for other concentrations.  The course begins in mid-January and ends in mid-May.  The trip component, approximately two weeks in length occurs at the semester break, typically the first two weeks in March.

TEXTBOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALS:

  • Other Required Readings: 
    • Culturegrams: The Nations Around Us, (2001) developed by the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University (Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom).
    • "Global Analysis of Opportunities and Threats: A Country Life Cycle Approach," Association of Global Business Proceedings, (1996) by Lloyd C. Russow.

  • Recommended Texts:


    You may wish to consult functional area-specific texts as a starting point for your Global Business Project since they will provide more depth than our text. A few suggestions are: 

    • Accounting: An International Perspective, (2001, 5th edition) by Helen Gernon, and Gary K. Meek.  Chicago: Irwin. 
    • Multinational Business Finance, (2001, 9th edition) by David K. Eiteman, Arthur I. Stonehill, and Michael H. Moffett. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 
    • International Dimensions of Marketing, (2000, 4th edition) by Vern Terpstra and Lloyd Russow. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. 
    • International Dimensions of Management, (1995, 4th edition) by Arvind Phatak.  Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing.

We will discuss current events in class. Excellent news sources other than the standard Business Week, New York Times, and Washington Post, include, The Economist, Euromoney Online, Global Business, The Financial Times, and your trade journals and association newsletters.

There are, of course, many Web sites. I recommend starting with the class web page: http://faculty.PhilaU.edu/Frumkins/MB40.htm, and if you need additional information, visit my home page http://faculty.PhilaU.edu/Frumkins (Everything International - "Ev-In") which may prove helpful for your assignments. For your briefing reports, the Fortune and Forbes 500 links on the 'Company and Industry' page are a good place to start for company-specific information and the 'Country and Regional -- Region Data' page is an excellent starting point if you are writing about the European Union. Another site that is particularly helpful for this assignment is the one entitled News by Company on the 'News' page of Ev-In. You might also try the accounting and finance links on the 'Professional Association' page of Ev-In.

Other electronic sources, such as Lexis/Nexus and Dialog (available at the Gutman Library, or through Philadelphia University recognized protocols) will also provide very current information in the form of news articles on a variety of topics, and might prove particularly helpful with your company reports. You would do well to talk to the reference librarians at Gutman Library too.

Citations are important for all assignments.  Please refer to the section on citations on the "Faculty & Students" page of Ev-In, or ask for assistance at the Learning Center or Gutman Library.

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GENERAL TRAVEL INFORMATION: top of page 5 

 

Still have questions about the trip arrangements?  See the information below to reach me, or send an e-mail correspondence to the Accent Group: Accent@accentgrp.com.  If you have questions about the cities we'll visit, our corporate hosts, passports, visas, or anything else, additional web sites can be found on my Company and Travel web pages.

 

Author/contact information:
Prof.Steve Frumkin, Ph.D.

Philadelphia University
School of Business Administration

School House Lane & Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA  19144-5497
Ph: 215-951-2764
Fx: 215.951.2652
E-mail: FrumkinS@PhilaU.edu

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