SEMESTER: Summer 19
COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA 296-11
IMPORTANT: Due to the nature of IBD, students that go through the signup process agree that they will commit to participate fully in the program. DO NOT SIGN-UP IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO MAKE ALL OF THE IN-CLASS DATES AT HAAS AND IN-COUNTRY WORK DATES.
Students in the class of 2021 are not eligible for IBD due to the Fundamentals of Design Thinking prerequisite.
COURSE TITLE: International Business Development
UNITS OF CREDIT: 3 units
INSTRUCTOR: Arman Zand
EMAIL: armanzand@berkeley.edu
MEETING DAY/TIME:
IBD takes place during the Summer 2019 semester and consists of both in-class meeting dates and in-country work. At the information sessions, examples of previous IBD countries and organizations will be shared with Summer 2019 projects being revealed during the first day of class on Sunday, May 19.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COURSE TIMELINE: SUMMER 2019 |
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Instructor: Arman Zand |
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INSTRUCTION DATES |
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Sunday, May 19, 2019 (1pm-5pm) |
In this session students will learn about their project, their team and their project country. |
Saturday, June 1, 2019 (10:30am-6pm) |
In-class session @ Haas |
Saturday, June 8, 2019 (8:30am-6pm) |
In-class session @ Haas |
Saturday, June 15, 2019 (8:30am-6pm) |
In-class session @ Haas |
Saturday, June 22, 2019 (8:30am-6pm) |
In-class session @ Haas |
Saturday, June 29 – Saturday, July 13, 2019 |
International in-country work |
Friday, September 13, 2019 |
Participation in half-day IBD Conference at |
PREREQUISITE(S): EW290T Applied Innovation or EW200P Fundamentals of Design Thinking
CAREER FIELD: Consulting, International Business, General Management, Strategy
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
We are pleased to offer International Business Development (IBD) designed specifically for the EWMBA population, in which students take classes and engage in international consulting projects during the Summer 2019 semester. IBD is administered as a management consulting program, run as an academic course, for which you will receive 3 semester units. Under the supervision of select faculty and working in teams, you will determine how to best serve your client’s business consulting needs.
An Experiential Learning Opportunity: IBD enables you to take the business principles you learn in the classroom and apply them in an experiential way to solve real-world problems for existing international clients.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Arman Zand has more than 19 years of experience working in venture capital, technology, and finance. He is currently Head of Finance at Farmstead, an online grocery delivery company in San Francisco. Prior to that he was Head of International Business Development at Quona Capital and Director of Business Development at RocketSpace, Inc. where he helped advise on corporate open innovation. Arman spent the previous 15 years at Silicon Valley Bank in the US, India, U.K, the Middle East, and Asia, helping expand the bank globally including 7 years in China where he helped co-found China's first joint venture technology bank. Arman is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and is a part-time lecturer at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. |