MGNT4540 Course Outline Sep Nov 2014 1
MGNT 4540 Asian Business
Semester 1, 2014-15
Date & Time Thursday 10:30 – 13:15
Location: Rm 301, Wu Ho Man Yuen Building
Lecturer: Dr Stephen Frost Phone: 9772 3265 Email: sdfrost61@gmail.com (9am / stay after class due to no office)
Assistant: Michael Lin Phone: Email: michaellin@baf.cuhk.edu.hk
Office Hours: By appointment via email/phone
General Office: Rm. 830
Course description
Asia’s role in the world economy in now undeniably significant. This course has been designed to expose you to a range of topics that will help you understand the economic, business and sociopolitical diversity of the region.
The lectures cover a broad range of subjects. It’s impossible to cover everything in one semester, but the course is designed to raise as many issues as practical in sufficient depth. You are encouraged to focus on the topics that interest you in your assignment. This will enable you to dig deeper and develop useful knowledge and skills that should help you after you graduate.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the course are to:
1) Provide a general overview of the business environment and practices in Asia so you can identify areas of interest that you can develop yourself;
2) Increase awareness of cultural difference within Asia and the impact on various business practices;
3) Enable understanding of the role Asian business plays in the world economy
4) Develop your ability to be an effective global leader;
5) Enable you to conduct basic research on topics of your interest.
Course Schedule
Week 1 – 04 Sep: Who would have imagined it? Asia’s rise in the world economy
Week 2 – 11 Sep: Business globalization in Asia: East meets West meets BOP
Week 3 – 18 Sep: Country study (China): SOEs, private firms and investing abroad
Week 4 – 25 Sep Country study (Japan): Japanese firms and their business strategies
Week 5 – 02 Oct: Country Study (Hong Kong): A manufacturing powerhouse?
Week 6 – 09 Oct: Country study
Semester 1, 2014-15
Date & Time Thursday 10:30 – 13:15
Location: Rm 301, Wu Ho Man Yuen Building
Lecturer: Dr Stephen Frost Phone: 9772 3265 Email: sdfrost61@gmail.com (9am / stay after class due to no office)
Assistant: Michael Lin Phone: Email: michaellin@baf.cuhk.edu.hk
Office Hours: By appointment via email/phone
General Office: Rm. 830
Course description
Asia’s role in the world economy in now undeniably significant. This course has been designed to expose you to a range of topics that will help you understand the economic, business and sociopolitical diversity of the region.
The lectures cover a broad range of subjects. It’s impossible to cover everything in one semester, but the course is designed to raise as many issues as practical in sufficient depth. You are encouraged to focus on the topics that interest you in your assignment. This will enable you to dig deeper and develop useful knowledge and skills that should help you after you graduate.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the course are to:
1) Provide a general overview of the business environment and practices in Asia so you can identify areas of interest that you can develop yourself;
2) Increase awareness of cultural difference within Asia and the impact on various business practices;
3) Enable understanding of the role Asian business plays in the world economy
4) Develop your ability to be an effective global leader;
5) Enable you to conduct basic research on topics of your interest.
Course Schedule
Week 1 – 04 Sep: Who would have imagined it? Asia’s rise in the world economy
Week 2 – 11 Sep: Business globalization in Asia: East meets West meets BOP
Week 3 – 18 Sep: Country study (China): SOEs, private firms and investing abroad
Week 4 – 25 Sep Country study (Japan): Japanese firms and their business strategies
Week 5 – 02 Oct: Country Study (Hong Kong): A manufacturing powerhouse?
Week 6 – 09 Oct: Country study