MGL6060: Global Business Challenges and Opportunities

This course equips students with the strategic insight and analytical tools necessary to understand and respond consciously to the complex challenges and emerging opportunities facing organizations in a rapidly evolving global landscape. Students will explore how globalization, technological disruption, shifting geopolitical dynamics, environmental crises, and social expectations are reshaping the way organizations operate and lead. Students will assess real-world scenarios confronting multinational enterprises, social ventures, and global institutions. The course emphasizes systems thinking, ethical decision-making, and authentic leadership to help students consider adaptive strategies that are both globally responsive and locally relevant. Text Recommendations: The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Friedman, 2007); Making Globalization Work (Stiglitz, 2007)