MBA 2427 Global Governance and Resilience: Navigating Complex Contexts
MBA 2427 Global Governance and Resilience: Navigating Complex Contexts
As the final module of the MBA program, this course integrates insights from global strategy, governance, and organizational learning. Through hands-on simulations, case discussions, and reflection, the course explores how firms respond to uncertainty, institutional differences, and geopolitical pressures. Particular attention is given to managerial trade-offs between exploration and exploitation and to the implications for global coordination, resilience, and value creation.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Integrate concepts from corporate governance and global management to explain how diverse organizational stakeholders and global perspectives create complex and conflicting interests during decision-making.
- Describe various frameworks for organizational resilience, distinguishing between governance strategies.
- Analyze how decisions in organizations lead to different short- and long-term consequences.
- Understand the importance of systemic understanding for planning and anticipating future events and results.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Analyze and discuss how a long-term perspective and a global environment influence the development of business plans and performance.
- Analyze the impact of geopolitical shifts, such as trade conflicts or regional instability, on global supply chain resilience and strategic decision-making.
- Evaluate key considerations for managers when initiating new business operations.
- Synthesize knowledge from all program modules to analyze systemic effects across different timeframes and geographical locations.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Reflect on approaches to exploitation and exploration in global organizations.
- Formulate critical questions regarding corporate governance to maximize societal value and minimize costs.
- Critically assess the long-term economic and social consequences of "de-risking" strategies like near-shoring and friend-shoring.
- Discuss the long-term effects of decisions within complex systems and critically evaluate their various interpretations.
- Analyze how a company's performance and operations are perceived differently based on their localization.
- Critically assess the adaptability and localization needs of business strategies across different national and cultural contexts.
The course integrates theoretical perspectives and practical applications related to global strategy, governance, and organizational decision-making. Teaching methods include simulation, lectures, group discussions, cases, experiential exercises, and other learning activities. Students engage with key concepts and apply insights from across the MBA program to analyze strategic challenges related to markets, internationalization, and resource utilization.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethics, and social and environmental issues are integrated into the course content and discussions.
The course is delivered through a combination of interactive lectures, structured group discussions, case-based learning, and applied exercises. Students work collaboratively to analyze organizational and strategic challenges, draw on empirical material and real-world examples, and apply relevant theories and frameworks from across the MBA program. Learning activities emphasize reflection, problem-solving, and the application of concepts to practical decision-making contexts.
Granted admission to the BI-Fudan programme. Please consult our student regulations.
Disclaimer
Changes in exam type can be made until the course starts. In addition, unforeseen events or external conditions may call for deviations in teaching and exams.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Weight: 40 Grouping: Group (2 - 5) Duration: 96 Hour(s) Exam code: MBA 24275 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Activity, Oral Form of assessment: Presentation Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 60 Grouping: Group (2 - 5) Duration: 1 Day(s) Comment: Oral group presentation based on material presented in the class, counts 60% of the final grade. The presentation will take place one day during the course. The examiners reserve the right to assign individual grades should a candidate’s performance be assessed as either significantly better or significantly worse compared to the rest of the group. Exam code: MBA 24276 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 4 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 110 hours.
A group assignment with a written submission. The assignment will be distributed in class. The deadline for submission will be within 24 hours after the assignment is given.