Bachelor of Science in Global Business

Foundations: Accounting & Strategic Finance

This introductory course offers a foundation in essential accounting principles and strategic finance concepts. Students learn to record transactions, prepare and interpret financial statements, and apply financial information to support basic business decisions. The course covers the complete accounting cycle and introduces tools for financial analysis, performance evaluation, and strategic planning. Key topics include the accounting cycle, introductory financial statement preparation and analysis, cost-benefit evaluation, and performance measurement. Through hands-on exercises and case studies, students develop practical skills in creating, interpreting, and using financial information, while building a foundation for strategic financial management in a global business context.

Foundations: Products, Customers, & Brands

This foundational course introduces students to the core concepts of product development, customer analysis, and brand management in today's dynamic marketplace. Students explore how successful organizations create meaningful products, understand their customers' needs, and build strong brand identities. Students examine how products and services evolve in response to changing consumer behaviors and market opportunities. The course provides essential frameworks for analyzing customer segments, evaluating brand positioning, and understanding the various touchpoints through which customers interact with products and brands. Students investigate successful and unsuccessful product strategies across different industries, helping them recognize the critical factors that influence customer perception and purchasing decisions.

Foundations: Globalization & Business

This foundational course introduces students to the key concepts of globalization and their impact on business. The course aims to help students understand how global forces shape business practices, markets, and career opportunities. Through case studies, current events, and interactive discussions, students explore how companies operate across borders and how cultural, economic, and ethical factors influence global business decisions. Topics include international trade, global business models, cross-cultural communication, and responsible business practices. The course emphasizes practical understanding and builds a foundation for future business studies in an interconnected world.

Foundations: Global Human Resources, Process, & Operational Excellence

This course first explores the complexities of managing human capital across international markets, examines strategies for operational and workforce planning, talent acquisition, and cross-cultural leadership in a globalized business environment, and provides an understanding of global HR functions across different cultural and regulatory landscapes. Students will analyze international HR policies, ethical considerations, and the impact of globalization on workforce dynamics. The course then explores the basics of business processes, supply chains, and quality management systems. In doing so, the course emphasizes the interconnected nature of people and processes in creating value for customers and stakeholders. Students develop analytical skills for evaluating operational effectiveness while building a foundation for understanding how people, processes, and systems work together to achieve organizational goals.

Corporate Finance & Investment Strategies

This course offers a foundational overview of financial decision-making related to organizational funding and investment strategy. Students examine how firms assess funding sources, determine capital structure, and develop investment approaches that effectively balance risk and return. Topics include capital budgeting, cost of capital, working capital management, financing options, and the principles of portfolio construction. Through case studies and applied exercises, students develop analytical skills necessary for evaluating financial decisions and formulating sound financing and investment strategies in diverse business environments.

Business Operations Planning

This course equips students with tools to assess operational efficiency and plan business processes across global contexts. Focus areas include process optimization, value stream mapping, supply chain systems, and workflow alignment. Students explore how cultural, regulatory, and infrastructure differences influence operations and strategic planning.

Technology & the Global Enterprise

This course explores the strategic role of digital technologies in driving global business operations and competitive advantage. Students evaluate digital transformation frameworks, analyze technology-enabled business models, and assess critical issues such as data governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance. The course emphasizes how technology supports enterprise scalability, innovation, and complexity management in a global context. Through case studies and applied projects, students develop skills to leverage digital concepts for improving communication, operational efficiency and innovation.

Auditing, Financial Reporting, & Impact Measurement

This course introduces students to key frameworks for evaluating financial reporting, compliance, and performance measurement in organizations. Students explore internal controls, auditing practices, and the growing role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting through case studies and applied exercises. Topics include financial statement analysis, audit functions, fraud awareness, governance, and ESG metrics. The course prepares students to analyze both financial and non-financial information to support accountability and informed business decision-making.

Financial Modeling

This course introduces students to basic financial modeling techniques used to analyze performance, forecast results, and support decision-making. Students will learn to use spreadsheets to build models through case studies and hands-on assignments. Key topics include financial statement analysis, cost behavior, budgeting, break-even analysis, and scenario modeling. The course aims to help students apply financial tools to evaluate operations, assess risks, and make informed business decisions.

Business Intelligence and Analytics

This course introduces foundational concepts and practices in business intelligence and analytics to support evidence-based decision-making. Students learn how organizations collect, integrate, and analyze data from diverse sources to generate actionable insights. Key topics include BI system components, key pillars of business analytics, and ethical considerations. Practical case studies and hands-on activities develop skills in applying BI frameworks and business analytics to improve business processes and identify opportunities. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning are introduced as transformative tools in modern business analytics.

Data, Audience, and Storytelling

Market Landscape and Positioning

This course builds upon the foundational courses to provide students with frameworks and methodologies for analyzing market landscapes, organizational, and product positioning across diverse business contexts. Students learn to systematically evaluate market constituents including products, buyers, competitors, and regulatory environments to identify opportunities and challenges. Students examine how organizations navigate complex market dynamics, evaluate organizational, and brand positioning, and develop strategic responses to evolving customer needs. Students investigate how ethical considerations, regulatory frameworks, and stakeholder relationships shape market boundaries and influence strategic decision-making. The course also provides students with practical frameworks and approaches for developing effective organizational, brand positioning and pricing strategies. Students explore how successful organizations create distinctive market positions through aligned positioning, messaging, and pricing approaches that help them connect with customer needs while differentiating from competitors. Students develop practical skills in creating and evaluating positioning and pricing strategies that build brand value and appeal to target audiences. This course prepares students for more advanced studies in strategic planning and business development by enhancing their ability to evaluate and respond to complex market landscapes and prepare appropriate positioning strategies.

The Art of Selling

This course examines the strategic dimensions of professional selling as a value creation process that builds productive client relationships and delivers measurable business outcomes. 

Students explore consultative selling methodologies, value proposition design, and negotiation frameworks that emphasize mutual benefit rather than transactional approaches. Students analyze how effective selling strategies align with organizational objectives while addressing client needs across diverse contexts. Students develop analytical skills for designing effective sales approaches while building a foundation for creating productive client relationships. This course prepares students for further studies in sales leadership and business development by enhancing their ability to create and communicate value propositions that resonate with diverse stakeholders.

Alliances, Mergers, and Acquisitions

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of strategic growth through alliances, mergers, and acquisitions in a global context. Students examine why companies pursue these strategies, how deals are evaluated, and what factors contribute to success or failure. Key topics include strategic fit, basic valuation, due diligence, negotiation, and integration planning. Through case studies and applied activities, students gain a foundational understanding of how alliances and M&A shape global business expansion and competitiveness.

Business Communication Framework

This course explores the principles and strategies essential for effective communication in professional settings. This course examines how individuals and organizations convey messages, build relationships, and enhance collaboration through structured communication methods and provides a comprehensive understanding of business communication, covering written, verbal, and digital communication techniques. Students will learn how to craft persuasive messages, manage corporate communication, and navigate intercultural business interactions. Emphasis is placed on clarity, professionalism, and strategic messaging to support organizational goals.

Leadership Excellence: High Performance Business Culture

This course examines the principles of leadership excellence and the importance and impact of organizational culture on business performance. Key topics focus on methods for building high-performance teams, fostering innovation, and aligning leadership strategies with corporate goals. Through case studies, interactive discussions, and practical applications, students will learn and understand strategies of effective leadership practices that drive organizational success.

Strategic and Stakeholder Management

This course focuses on the principles of strategic and stakeholder management from a global perspective in a fast-changing and interconnected world and explores how organizations adapt, evolve, and sustain competitive advantages while navigating international markets and relationships with teams, customers, and communities. Further, this course emphasizes strategic planning, cross-cultural communication, and leveraging global networks for business success. Students will augment and expand their analysis of these key business topics to examine how businesses develop competitive advantages, expand into global markets, and foster collaboration across borders. Major concepts include strategic planning through understanding of market dynamics and competitive positioning, global expansion and evaluating opportunities and challenges in international markets, cross-cultural collaboration through communication and teamwork in diverse global environments, innovation and adaptation by leveraging technology and trends for sustainable growth, and managing teams and partnerships across different global and local regions.

Decision Making in Collaborative Organizations

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to decision-making in organizations characterized by shared leadership, and collaborative governance. Students investigate frameworks in rational-decision-making from managerial economics such as marginal economic analysis, opportunity costs, optimization, and efficiency. Students analyze how the economic environment (market and information structures, and other micro and macro factors) influence decisions through the creation of incentives (that ultimately affect stakeholders’ engagement and behavior). The course also incorporates insights on how governance structures, behavioral and cognitive biases, and social dynamics affect decision-making. . Students examine how technological, cultural, and structural factors might shape collaborative decision processes and their outcomes across different organizational contexts.

Strategic Business Law and Ethics

This course introduces students to common legal and ethical issues that affect businesses wherever they operate locally or globally. Through various cases and scenarios, students will learn to navigate legal processes, apply doctrines, and address workplace ethical dilemmas that will enable them to identify and prevent potential legal and ethical risks in managing business operations. Key topics include global business law on international regulations and ethical considerations in cross-border commerce, legal structures and ethical responsibilities in leadership and corporate governance, regulatory compliance focusing on laws that impact business operations and strategic planning, principles of integrity and corporate social responsibility, and identifying legal and ethical risks in business strategy.

Challenge: Global Enterprise Design

This project-based business challenge course guides students through a systematic enterprise development process, emphasizes the practical application of global business frameworks, and culminates in the design or re-design of global enterprise. Working in collaborative teams, students evaluate market conditions, regulatory environments, cultural factors, business processes, and organizational, technology, and operational requirements across multiple regions through structured frameworks to create adaptable and resilient business designs that promise viability across diverse international contexts...Throughout the project, students develop skills in systems thinking, cross-cultural business analysis, and collaborative design. . Students strengthen their capacity to develop scalable enterprise solutions for complex international markets by integrating multiple business disciplines with a global perspective.

Challenge: Purpose-Driven Innovation & Entrepreneurship

This course explores mission and values as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurial action. Students learn frameworks and methodologies for developing purpose-driven ventures, products, and services that create both economic and social value while addressing market and societal challenges. The course investigates approaches for identifying purpose-aligned opportunities, designing solutions, and developing business models that maintain integrity with founding principles while targeting paths to sustainable growth. Students practice purpose articulation, opportunity recognition, human-centered design, mission-aligned business model development, and impact assessment approaches through interactive activities and applied assignments. This course prepares students for roles in purpose-driven enterprises by enhancing their ability to align innovation practices with meaningful organizational values.

Challenge: Global Problem Solving

This project-based course engages students in identifying and addressing significant global challenges through innovative, data-informed business solutions aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Working collaboratively, students apply systems thinking, data analysis, and business frameworks to examine complex economic, cultural, and regulatory contexts. They develop viable business models and implementation plans that create sustainable value. Emphasizing entrepreneurial problem-solving, the course fosters skills in leadership, project management, and evidence-based decision-making, culminating in a comprehensive solution presentation for real-world impact.

Capstone I Global Business

This capstone course provides students with the opportunity to synthesize and apply their accumulated business knowledge through various experiential and practical projects that includes integrative research, consulting, and other projects. Working in teams, students address authentic international business challenges by developing comprehensive and implementable strategies that balance global integration with local responsiveness. Students conduct multidimensional analyses of market dynamics, operational frameworks, financial considerations, and leadership approaches using a structured consulting methodology to create value-driven solutions for their partner organizations. The course emphasizes independent research and critical thinking as students navigate complex global business environments, develop viable recommendations, and create detailed implementation roadmaps. Students engage with faculty coaches throughout the project, for guidance and feedback.

Capstone II Global Business

This capstone course provides students with the opportunity to synthesize and apply their accumulated business knowledge through various experiential and practical projects that includes integrative research, consulting, and other projects. Working in teams, students address authentic international business challenges by developing comprehensive and implementable strategies that balance global integration with local responsiveness. Students conduct multidimensional analyses of market dynamics, operational frameworks, financial considerations, and leadership approaches using a structured consulting methodology to create value-driven solutions for their partner organizations. The course emphasizes independent research and critical thinking as students navigate complex global business environments, develop viable recommendations, and create detailed implementation roadmaps. Students engage with faculty coaches throughout the project, for guidance and feedback.