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: Flavio Feferman, Whitney Hischier, Jo Mackness, Frank Schultz

E-MAIL ADDRESSES: raube@haas.berkeley.edu; feferman@haas.berkeley.edu; hischier@haas.berkeley.edu; mackness@haas.berkeley.edu; fschultz@haas.berkeley.edu;

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

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Monday, 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 17 - June 7 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 19, 2014. 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 applied innovation requirement for the MBA.

By the end of the course, students will have:

• learned and refined consulting skills;
• developed insights into another culture

• Applied the business principles learned in core classes to a real-world global setting
• developed industry knowledge in a focused area;
• worked in a dynamic team environment.

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. In addition, she is the Associate Director of the new Institute for Business and Social Impact, launched at Berkeley-Haas in November 2013. 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.

Flavio Feferman has been a member of the Professional Faculty at the Haas School of Business since the 2007-2008 academic year. He teaches courses on business, entrepreneurship, and innovation in developing countries, including “Business Strategies for Emerging Markets” and “Seminar in International Business (SIB)” in the MBA and EWMBA programs. He serves as Affiliated Faculty for the UC Haiti Initiative and collaborates with the Haas Latin American and Hispanic Business Association on its annual conference. Flavio is also president of the Developing Markets Group, which specializes in international consulting projects involving the United States and Latin America, with special focus on Brazil. During his 25 years of professional experience in business and economic development, Flavio has directed several international projects for organizations such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, as well as projects for corporations, private investors, and non-profit organizations. Flavio is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University, with degrees in Business and Economics. He is a dual citizen of the US and Brazil and resides in San Francisco, California with his wife and two daughters.

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.

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.

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.