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FALL SEMESTER 2012
MAN 385.33 UNIQUE #04720
Professor
Class Times
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appointment
Phone
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Teaching Assistant
John N. Doggett
Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
UTC 1.118
CBA 5.124k
Wednesdays from 5:15 to 6:15 pm or by
(512) 232-7671
john.doggett@mccombs.utexas.edu
via Blackboard
Erin Whalen
Erin.Whalen@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu
Course Objectives
I created this course when I came to UT in 1989. I update the cases every year
and the only case that I still use from back then is Republic Flour. You will
understand why Ive kept Republic Flour soon. Today, as we approach a second
global recession, helping people learn how to take advantage of global turmoil will
give you a tremendous advantage during the coming difficult times. For that
reason, I have made several significant changes to this course.
First, I have done away with the individual midterm. The next recovery will be a
group effort. So will your midterm.
Second, I have broadened the focus of the course. In the past, we have spent
significant time looking at China and India. The growth of China, India, Brazil, and
other emerging economies has fundamentally changed how we think about global
business. However, the Euro Zone contagion and the Arab Spring have also
transformed the worlds political and economic economy and cannot be ignored.
For example, the Euro Zone crisis is threatening to send the world into a global
recession that could be deeper and more destructive than the one that hit us in
2007-2009. And that recession was the worst to hit America since 1948.
Third, I have assigned you three books. These books will help you understand the
challenges and opportunities represented by the crisis of the Euro Zone and the
emergence of China, India and Brazil. They will help you develop your own
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Materials
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1Case Packet: You must purchase your case packet from www.hbsp. harvard.edu.
Erin will send you a link that you can use to purchase the materials once you are
registered for the course.
Books: Purchase on-line or at a bookstore. They are not in the Co-op.
Required:
Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences
Still Matter by Pankaj Ghemawat, HBS Press, 2007.
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis, Norton, 2012.
Getting India and China Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World's Fastest
Growing Economies for Global Advantage by Anil K. Gupta and Haiyan Wang,
Jossey-Bass, 2009.
Recommended:
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron
Acemoglu and James Robinson, Crown Business, 2012.
When China Rules the World:The End of the Western World and the Birth of a
New Global Orderby Martin Jacques, Penguin Press HC, November 12, 2009.
India: A Portrait by Patrick French, Knopf, 2011.
The New Brazilby Riorden Roet, Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
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Each student must also join a study group of fellow students and spend a minimum
of one hour discussing each case prior to class. During our class sessions, each
student must be prepared to actively participate in the discussion of every case.
Your class participation grade will be based primarily on the quality of your
comments, not on the quantity. Comments that demonstrate a thorough analysis
of the issues presented by each case, an awareness and appreciation of the
comments made by fellow students, implementation of the frameworks from the
readings that add to the learning process of the class will receive high grades.
Comments that ignore the content and flow of the discussion or that reflect
inadequate preparation will receive low grades.
Group Presentations = 30%
During the semester, each of you will participate in a group presentation of cases
that are assigned. The group presentations will be held three weeks prior to the
last week of class. The group presentation process will require the active
participation of each member in the analysis of the case, in the development of an
action plan, and in the development of materials to assist the group in making an
effective forty minute presentation to the lass.
Group presentation grades will be based upon the quality of analysis, the "do
ability" of the action plan, the quality of the presentation, and the ability of the
group to respond effectively on their feet to the questions posed by members of
the class and the instructor. Each group member must actively participate in the
presentations. Your classmates will grade each presentation.
We will have a full day of presentations. The class will self-divide into six groups.
Three groups will present one case and the other three will present the second
case. The groups not presenting will grade the groups presenting. One group for
each case will receive an A, one will receive a B and one will receive a C. Your
individual grade for group presentations will be the grade that your group receives.
Group Mid-term Exam = 20%
Each of you must join a study group to help you prepare for class. That study
group will also be tasked with spending a weekend reading, analyzing and
developing an action plan for a case for a mid-term exam. Examination grades will
reflect your groups success in identifying key challenges faced by the manager,
developing a realistic plan of action to respond to the managerial challenges
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presented by the exam Case and performing in-depth quantitative and qualitative
analysis to support your groups action plan.
Missing Class Policy
I know that one of your priorities may be to get a job as we enter the second global
recession since 2007. My policy on missing classes is as follows.
You must submit a 10-page write up for every case that we covered when you
missed a class. This 10-page write up must be submitted to Erin by the beginning
of the next class. If you do not submit one paper per missed case to Erin by the
beginning of the next class, your maximum potential grade for the semester will be
reduced by of a letter grade.
If you miss more than one class, your maximum potential grade for the semester
will be reduced by of a letter grade for each additional class that you miss, if you
submit the 10-page paper by the beginning of the next class. If you miss more
than one class and do not submit the 10-page paper by the beginning of the next
class, your maximum potential grade for the semester will be reduced by 1 full
letter grade.I will waive the or 1 grade penalty for exceptional circumstances
that are related to the health or safety of yourself, your spouse, your children, your
family or your significant other.
Students with disabilities: You may request appropriate academic
accommodations from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement,
Services for Students with Disabilities, 512-471-6259,
http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/ssd/
Honor Code: You are MBA candidates so I dont expect you to cheat. If you do,
you will be subject to the UT Honor Code: http://registrar.utexas.edu/catalogs/gi0910/ch01/index.html)
Religious Holy Days: By UT Austin policy, you must notify me of your pending
absence at least fourteen days prior to the date of observance of a religious holy
day. If you must miss a class, an examination, a work assignment, or a project in
order to observe a religious holy day, you will be given an opportunity to complete
the missed work within a reasonable time after the absence.
Schedule
1. Wednesday, August 29, 2012
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a. Lecture:
in the 21st Century
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Global Management
The Case
b. Case:
Where Have You Been? An Exercise to
Assess Your Exposure to the Rest of the Worlds
Peoples.
c. Lecture:
in the 21st Century, continued
3.
Global Management
Republic Flour
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b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
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h.
Republic Flour,
b. Case:
Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging
World of Mining
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b. Case:
in
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Foreign Direct
b. Case:
International Group: A World of Wood
Chabros
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15. Monday, October 22, 2012 [Midterm due at the beginning of class]
a. Case:
China or the World? A Financial Reporting
Strategy for Hong Kong's Capital Markets
Study Questions for China or the World
1. Did the Hong Kong Stock Exchange make the right decision to
allow Chinese companies to report using Chinese GAP?
2. As an investor in Chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong
Stock Exchange, how would your due diligence change in light of
the above decision?
3. What measures would you recommend that the Hong Kong
authorities take to preserve the integrity of Chinese companies
financial reports??
4. Do you think that Hong Kongs dual-standards strategy will survive
over the next five to ten years? Why or why not?
16. Wednesday, October 24, 2012
a. Case:
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Managing the
Fraunhofer:
GROUP
The Espresso
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GROUP
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dream car and also sharing personal information. How else could
you grow the online sales channel?
22. Wednesday, November 14, 2012
a. Case:
Yum! China
Study Questions for Yum! China
Proposed
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Global Business
b. Case:
Collision Course: Selling European High
Performance Motorcycles in Japan
Study Questions for Collision Course
1. Considering the problems occurring in this case, what is going
wrong inside and outside Tommasi Motorcycles Japan? How are
these issues related or connected?
2. Describe the corporate level strategy that Tommasi Motorcycles
European headquarters appears to be following. Where are the
major decisions made?
3. What is the role that JNO is supposed to play, ideally? Is it
performing its role well? What should it change?
4. What are the pros and cons of using expatriate managers in this
case? What would be the characteristics for a suitable leader of
JNO?
5. Is Katoh part of the problem or part of the solution?
6. How do you manage a firm where the people do not speak the same
language? Can you suggest things that will make this work better?
Do you think the consultants will approach their next assignment
differently? If so, how?
25. Monday, November 26, 2012
a. Case:
Chiquita in Columbia
Blood Bananas:
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2. Do you think that Chiquita and its managers had a choice? Why or
why not?
3. What other companies and industries do you think should be
worried about Chiquitas experience? How does the story change
your perspective on doing business abroad?
4. What can current CEO Fernando Aguirre do now to restore Chiquitas
reputation and ensure future competitiveness?
26. Wednesday, November 28, 2012
a. Case:
Low Cost Model Go Long Haul?
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a. Case:
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