COURSE NUMBER: MBA298A.2B

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

This is an Applied Innovation elective and has a co-requisite core course: MBA200P Problem-Finding, Problem Solving. If you enroll and have not completed MBA200P, PFPS will be added to your schedule after the Add/Drop period.

COURSE TITLE: International Business Development: Social Impact

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

LEAD INSTRUCTOR: Kristi Raube, Executive Director, International Business Development Program

FACULTY MENTOR: Kristi Raube

E-MAIL ADDRESSES: raube@haas.berkeley.edu

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

MEETING DATES: Spring B only, 3/16-5/4

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

Students must be available from May 13 - June 2, 2017 to travel for work in the field. No exceptions will be granted.

There are no regular class meetings in the fall. However, students must participate in the day-long IBD Conference on Friday, September 15, 2017. The only exception for missing the fall IBD Conference is for those students going on exchange.

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

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Assignments, participation, and 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.

The IBD course is divided into four sections. The “Social Impact” section will consist of four projects from a variety of business sectors, companies/organizations, and geographies, all focused on social and/or environmental challenges. All four IBD sections will meet together during the same class period.

Before being assigned to a project, students will be asked to rank four IBD projects included in the “Social Impact” section. Project assignments will be based on student preferences, project needs, and client wishes. Every effort will be made to balance these (sometimes) competing priorities.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

Kristiana Raube, PhD is on the faculty of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where she is the Executive Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact, whose mission is to inspire and empower members of the Berkeley-Haas community to develop innovative solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges. In addition, she is the Executive Director of the International Business Development Program, a global management consulting program at Berkeley-Haas. She is also the Executive Director of the Graduate Program in Health Management at the University of California 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 Pardee RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, her masters in public health from UCLA, and her bachelors of arts degree in biology from the University of Colorado.