COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA 257-11
COURSE TITLE: Global Teams
UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 units, 10 weeks
INSTRUCTOR: Homa Bahrami
EMAIL: bahrami@haas.berkeley.edu
MEETINGS DAY/TIME: Saturdays, 1:00-4:00PM
Class will end on April 5. We will not have class either on Saturday 3/15 or Saturday 3/22.
PRE-REQUISITE(S): EWMBA 205
CLASS FORMAT: Workshop, discussion, guest speakers, lectures
REQUIRED READINGS: Course reader
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Class participation, individual assignment, team project
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES
This course is about effective teamwork and collaboration in global companies. We will focus on the most challenging and complex forms of collaboration; teams that operate across cultures, disciplines, geographies and time zones. Recent surveys of global business leaders and entrepreneurial founders cite distributed teamwork and cross-silo collaboration as a critical success factor and a major source of competitive advantage. This is hardly surprising. As technology and globalization have transformed the business landscape, global teams have become the enterprise backbone. They drive innovation, execution, and employee satisfaction. The course focuses on new trends, communication challenges and effective practices in global teams. We will focus on profiles of effective teams, what it takes to juggle different priorities, create alignment, interact with diverse stakeholders, and perform under time pressures and resource constraints. The new leadership challenge is how to drive teamwork and deliver results in complex, geo-distributed, fast-moving and unpredictable global contexts.
The course is designed to link theory and practice. You’ll learn about the latest field research as well as what it takes to apply the ideas, using practical tools and actionable techniques. Invited guests from different industries will share their team experiences, and present us with “live” challenges and real-time case studies.
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Biographical sketch:
Dr. Homa Bahrami is a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, a Faculty Director at the Haas Center for Executive Education, and on the Board of the Haas Center for Teaching Excellence. She is the co-author of a leading textbook (with Harold Leavitt, Stanford) "Managerial Psychology: Managing Behavior in Organizations", published by the University of Chicago Press, and translated into many languages. Her latest book “Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises”, published by Springer (co-authored with Stuart Evans from Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley) focuses on practical approaches for strategizing, organizing and leading knowledge workers in today’s dynamic world. Homa serves on two public Boards and several advisory boards in Silicon Valley and Europe and is active in executive education, executive development, and executive coaching in the US, Europe, and Asia. She works with executive teams on complex re-organizations, team effectiveness and enterprise transitions, and with HR professionals on executive development and learning interventions. She can be reached on bahrami@haas.berkeley.edu or homa@pdgy.com.