A couple of days ago I received a welcome email from professor who is going to teach Global Perspectives, one of the two core MBA courses I signed up for in the first half of the Spring semester. The syllabus and other materials have been placed on the Blackboard and we are expected to come ready for the first class having read almost 150 pages and worked on a case from Harvard Business Review.
I checked out other assignments, readings and syllabus, and the course appears to be quite demanding in terms of the required homework and preparation. Now I feel even more confident that I did the right thing by not having more than 2 classes in the first half-term.
Professor’s interests lie in the area of oil and gas industry and selection of the cases shows it very clearly. Oil and gas have been and will be even hotter subject in the geopolitics as the demand from the newly emerging economies poised to grow significantly in the coming years. So I am looking forward to learning more about the global business perspectives through the prism of oil industry, and getting some insights from the expert.
International business is considered to be one of the primary focuses at George Washington University School of Business MBA program. The full-time MBA program is called Global MBA to emphasize this focus. Also all the mottos and catch phrases used in the MBA program brochures incorporate the word global:
Act Responsibly, Lead Passionately, and Think Globally or All MBAs Know their business is global. Ours know that the globe is their business.
I am looking forward to immersing into this course. Hope that professor’s teaching style will match the exciting subject matter of the class. One more side plus of this Global Perspectives course is that we are not required to buy a textbook. Almost all reading materials are available on the Blackboard. We still have to buy a few business cases from the Harvard Business Review to the tune of about $7 per case, but I hope it will not amount to the cost of a full-blown textbook.
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