SEMESTER: Spring 2019

COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA 298S-3

COURSE TITLE: Seminar in International Business: India

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 units

INSTRUCTOR: Raghu Rau

E-MAIL ADDRESS: raghu@berkeley.edu

MEETING DAY/TIME: Refer to SIB page on EW student website here: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/EWMBA/academics/seminars-in-international-business.html.

Instructional Dates*
Sunday, March 17, 2019 (tentatively)	4 hours (specific time TBD)	Class session at Haas dinner provided
Sunday, March 24, 2019	flight arrivals can be scheduled for any time	Arrive in Delhi, India
Monday, March 25 – Friday, March 29, 2019	mandatory closing dinner on Friday night	Full day in-country instruction (Delhi & Bengaluru)
Saturday, March 30, 2019	flight departures should be scheduled for any time after 7:00 AM	Depart from Bengaluru, India
Sunday, April 14, 2019 (tentatively)	4 hours (specific time TBD)	Class session at Haas dinner provided

*Dates are subject to change. Attendance at ALL sessions is mandatory. Failure to attend could result in a failing grade.

PREREQUISITE(S): None

CAREER FIELD: International Business

CLASS FORMAT: 2 sessions plus 1 week on the ground in India

REQUIRED READINGS: TBD

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: TBD

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
Seminars in International Business ("SIB") are designed to introduce EWMBA student participants to the culture, history and business environment in various countries. Each SIB program focuses on a country or combination of countries that will illustrate how business environments vary across cultures.

For SIB India, the spotlight is on conducting business in a regulated emerging market. India has always been a heavily regulated economy with bureaucratic restrictions on investment, employment, and business policy. The class will examine a variety of perspectives on doing business in India – regulators and bureaucrats, domestic firms, foreign firms, media, and NGOs. The goal is to develop a broad perspective on the complexity of doing business in a large emerging market.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Professor Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also a past president of the European Finance Association, and a past editor of Financial Management. He is a founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).

Professor Rau has taught at a number of universities around the world, including the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences PO), Purdue University, the University of California at Los Angeles and most recently, the University of California at Berkeley.

Professor Rau was Principal at Barclays Global Investors, then the largest asset manager in the world, in San Francisco from 2008-2009. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, the International Review of Finance and the Quarterly Journal of Finance. His research has frequently been covered by the popular press including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist, among others.