MGT614InternationalBusiness(3credits)

ShaileshJ.MehtaSchoolofManagementIITBombay[2017]
SemesterOne,TermOne:Core
ShishirK.Jha(Tel:Extn.7845)

EvaluationPattern:
ClassParticipation 10%
Tests/Assignment 25%
ProjectandPresentation 30%
EndTermExamination 35%

Arelevanthandoutwillbeissuedregardingyourprojectandpresentationwork.

Acoursereaderwillbemadeavailablewithallprescribedarticlesmentionedintheoutline.

WewillbeusingMoodleforCourseManagement[asc.iitb.ac.in/moodle/]

Sessions&TopicsToBeCovered:

1&2: Introduction:IsItTheEndOfGlobalisationAsWeKnowIt17/07&20/07
Text: 1.W.Dalrymple,TheEastIndiaCompany:Theoriginalcorporateraiders,Guardian,March04,2015.
2.Mckinsey,Poorerthantheirparents:Flatorfallingincomesinadvancedeconomies,2016.
3. Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Richard DAveni, The 3D printing
revolution,[shiftinUSmanufacturing]

3: EconomiesinTransition:USandKnowledgeEconomy[PartOne]24/07
Text: 15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Will they do it
again?[RiseofGlobalEntertainment],HBS,2011.

4. EconomiesinTransition:ChinaandManufacturing[PartTwo]27/07
Text: Niraj Dawar and Tony Frost, Competing with giants: survival strategies for local
companiesinEmergingMarkets,HBR,1999.

Case: Haier:TakingaChinesecompanyglobalHBR,2006.

5: MultinationalCorporationsinDevelopingCountries31/07
Text: C.K.PrahaladandAllenHammond,ServingtheWorld'sPoor,Profitably,HBR,2002.

Films: ShortFilmsonthebottomofthepyramidmodels

6: EconomiesinTransition:GuestLectureI03/08

7: GlobalizationofMarkets07/08
Case: SamsungElectronicsCompany:GlobalMarketingOperations,HBS,2008.

8: StrategiesforGlobalExpansion[PharmaceuticalIndustry]10/08
Text: ImportanceofIntellectualPropertyRights


9: StrategiesforGlobalExpansion[PharmaceuticalIndustry]14/08
Text: Sumantra Ghoshal, Managing Acquisitive Expansion in Managing Radical Change:
WhatIndiancompaniesmustdotobecomeworldclass(Viking:2000).

Case: CiplaGlobalLtd.GenericsversusDrugDiscovery,IJCSM,2015

10: GlobalStrategicAlliances17/08
Case: HeroHondaMotors(India),Ltd.:IsitHondathatmadeitaHero?ThunderbirdSchool
ofManagement,2004.[change]

11: ProspectsandProblemsforGlobalisationofIndianFirms21/08
Text: N. Kumar, P. Mohapatra & S. Chandrasekhar, Essel Propack: Following a Global
CustomeracrosstheworldinIndiasGlobalpowerhouses:howtheyaretakingonthe
world[HBS,2009].

12: GuestLectureII24/08

13: ConclusionChallengesforIndianMultinationals28/08
Text: N. Kumar, P. Mohapatra & S. Chandrasekhar, Challenges for Indian Multinationals
howtheyaretakingontheworld,inIndiasGlobalpowerhouses:howtheyaretaking
ontheworld[HBS,2009].

14&15: FinalPresentation31/08&04/09