Week 1: Salisbury  (Daily Schedule: class 3 hrs)

I.             GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Date

Topic

Assignment

 12/12

 a. International Business:
     i.   Theory
     ii.  Practice
     iii. Methods
b.  Economic Integration & EU

 c. Foreign Exchange

 Text, Ch. 3 & 4, HO

12/13  

Orientation to course, culture & overseas travel

 Handouts (HO)

1/2

Cultural Environment of Global Business

Text, Ch. 6.

(HO) Cultural Metaphors

This class session is on line at course website:

Online Class [click here] this replaces class on Friday Jan. 2

 1/3

 Meet at Maggs to Depart for Airport

3:45 PM

 
Week 2: TU-Berlin

 
1/4

 
Arrive in Berlin

 
Turn in Cultural Metaphor assignment

 1/5

 AM:  

a.  Class - Cultural Environment   Cont’d
b.      Campus Tour

 PM:  
c.       TU orientation & Welcome
d.      Bus tour of Berlin

 Culture Quiz

1/6

AM: a. Class - International Firm Strategy
b. Reichstag Visit

 PM:  Guest TU lecture

Text, Ch. 8.

1/7

 
AM: Visit Schonefeld Airport

 PM:  Company visit- Schultheiss Brewery

1/8

 
AM:   Class- Firm Strategy Cont’d

 PM:  Class - International Marketing

Case:  Electrolux, (e-HO)

 
Text, Ch. 10.
Case:  Irish Cream O’Darby, (e-HO)

1/9

 
AM: Exam I

 PM: Free

 
1/10-11

 
Free Weekend – visit Berlin sites, Dresden, Potsdam, or other locations in Europe

Week 3 :  Berlin & London

1/12

 
AM: Class - Global HRM

 PM: Prof. Tromsdorff – “Marketing of New Products”

 
AM : Text, Ch. 9.

 Cases: Our Man in Switz., (e-HO)

1/13

 
AM: Class - Global Supply Chain
 

PM: Free

 Eve: Farewell Dinner

 
Text, Ch. 12.

 Case: Zara Fashions, (e-HO)

1/14

AM: Depart for London

 PM: Bus tour of London

1/15

Self organized groups to visit sites of interest

 Eve. Dinner Cruise

1/16

 
Self organized groups to visit sites of interest

1/17

 
Return to USA

 
Turn in Culture Paper

 
1/18

 
R & R

 
Week 4: Salisbury

1/19

MLK Day – No classes

** Email rchoffman@salisbury.edu or hand in  International Business Function paper to Dr. Hoffman at 6 PM

1/20

a. International Financial Markets II.

    (Other Financial Markets)
b. Exchange Rate Risk (Types of Exposures)

 International Financial Management I.                            a. Exchange Rate Risk Management
b. Financial Instruments
 

Course & trip evaluation 

Text, Ch. 4, HO

  Text, Ch. 11, HO

1/21

 
International Financial Management II.
a. Countertrade
     i. Barter
     ii. Compensation
     iii. Counterpurchase
b.  Agencies That Motivate International
     Trade & Business)
 

 
Text, Ch. 4, Ch. 11, HO

 
1/22

 
Reading Day

1/23

 
Exam II

2/8

Reunion party at the Hoffman’s

 4-7 PM

Bring  trip pictures and a snack