COURSE NUMBER: MBA298A.1

 

COURSE TITLE: International Business Development

 

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 units (in the fall students will receive 1 additional unit of credit)

 

LEAD INSTRUCTOR: Kristi Raube

 

FACULTY MENTORS: Frank Schultz, George Scharffenberger, Whitney Hischier, Ernie Gundling, Jo Mackness

 

E-MAIL ADDRESS: raube@haas.berkeley.edu; fschultz@haas.berkeley.edu; gscharffenberger@berkeley.edu; hischier@haas.berkeley.edu;egundling@aperianglobal.com; mackness@haas.berkeley.edu

 

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu

 

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Mondays 6:00 – 9:00PM

 

PREREQUISITE(S): First-year full-time MBA students only.

 

Please note that there is no drop/add period for this course.

 

Also, students must be available from May 18 - June 8 to travel for work in the field. No exceptions will be granted.

 

There are no regular class meetings in the fall, however, students must also participate in a day-long IBD conference on Friday, September 20, 2013.  The only exception for missing the fall conference is for those going on exchange.  

 

CLASS FORMAT: Mix of lectures, exercises, and group work

 

REQUIRED READINGS: Course reader with relevant articles

 

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Assignments, participation, final project

 

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a cutting-edge experiential learning course that prepares them to solve real-world business problems and emphasizes innovative leader skills in international settings. This course fulfills the BILD requirement for the MBA.

By the end of the course, students will have:

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

 

Kristiana Raube, PhD is an Adjunct Professor at the Haas School of Business and the Executive Director of the International Business Development Program. She is also Executive Director of the Graduate Program in Health Management at Haas-Berkeley, a program that prepares students for leadership roles in all aspects of healthcare, including care delivery and financing, biotechnology and medical devices, information technology, and consulting. Dr. Raube has worked to increase health management capacity through executive education and program development in the US and around the world, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Her research focuses on the delivery and financing of health services and she has evaluated a large number of health programs, including ones focused on physician payment, quality of care, access to care, infant mortality, and community-based health care. Dr. Raube received her doctorate in public policy from the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, her master's in public health from UCLA, and her BA in biology from the University of Colorado.

 

Frank Shultz is a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Teaching Excellence and a professional faculty member of the Management of Organizations and Economic Analysis and Policy groups at Haas. In his role as Faculty Fellow, Frank collaborates with the Executive Director in developing the long-term strategy of the Center as well as managing the day-to-day operations. He also acts as faculty coach through the Center’s Coaching Connection program. As a faculty member, Frank specializes in teaching Strategy and Leadership. His teaching has consistently placed him in Haas’ Club Six for outstanding teaching. He is a past University of California Faculty Teaching Fellow as well as a recipient of the Haas School’s Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching. Frank holds a BA in accounting from the University of Washington, MBA from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in strategic management from the University of Minnesota.

George Scharffenberger has more than 35 years' experience in the design, management and evaluation of international economic and social development activities including long-term assignments in Senegal, The Gambia, Morocco and Madagascar. Over the past decade, his interests and work have had a particular focus on technology and information-based communities and networks. George was the founding executive director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley after having held executive positions in the international NGOs World Links, VITA and Pact. George serves as a faculty mentor within the IBD program. He has a master's degree from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex (UK) and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

 

Whitney Hischier has spent most of her career in change management and system implementation consulting, primarily on international assignments. She has worked for KPMG in the Netherlands and UK, ABN Amro Bank in Portugal and Spain and the Endeavor Initiative, on projects in Chile and Argentina. Following an undergrad degree focused on security and arms control, she worked with NATO for ten summers to run presidential-level conferences on European security issues in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, and Russia. Whitney has run the Center for Executive Education at Haas since 2004, spending much of her time consulting to domestic and international clients on human capital challenges and designing educational programs to help solve them. Major international clients include Statoil and DNV (Norwegian), the Panama Canal, and universities in Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Whitney serves as a faculty mentor in the IBD program. She holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University and an MBA from Haas with a Certificate in Healthcare Management.

 

Ernie Gundling has been a Lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1993. He is a co-founder of Aperian Global, and has been involved with the organization since its inception in 1990. He currently acts as a senior Asia specialist and co-President of the company's operations. His job is to assist clients in developing strategic global approaches to leadership, organization development, and relationships with key business partners. He also coaches executives with global responsibilities and works with multicultural management teams to help them formulate business plans based upon strong mutual understanding and a joint commitment to execution. Ernie holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He wrote his dissertation on Japanese management training programs; his field research was funded initially by a U.S. Department of Education Fulbright Fellowship. He received a master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Stanford University. Ernie resided for six years in Japan, has worked and traveled extensively elsewhere in Asia, and lived for extended periods in Germany and Mexico.

 

Jo Mackness is Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Committed to challenging existing notions of business’ role in society and creating a new generation of business leaders, Jo leads Center efforts that engage students, faculty and companies in research, teaching and experiential learning that redefine good business. The Center has received global critical acclaim—most recently in January 2011 by The Financial Times that rated Haas number two in the world for MBA programs in corporate responsibility. Jo also serves as a faculty mentor in the International Business Development Program at Berkeley Haas. Before joining the Center, Jo served as the Corporate Responsibility Integration Leader at Ernst & Young, where she worked to embed social and environmental responsibility into core firm activities.   Prior to EY, Jo was a human capital consultant working in the US and the UK, primarily serving professional services and financial services firms on transactions, corporate governance and executive compensation issues.  Jo is a Haas alumna and has worked closely with the Center for Responsible Business since its inception in 2003—both as a corporate partner and as an instructor for the Strategic CSR & Consulting Projects course.