Lecture presentations are combined with short exercises to provide intensive, hands-on, interactive instruction.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

1:15pm - 1:30pm	Introduction Ray Levitt, Director of the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects, Stanford University Welcome, course overview, and course objectives.
1:30pm - 3:15pm	No Global Strategy? - RATS! Donald Lessard, MIT, Professor of International Business An integrated strategy framework for planning the global expansion of your organizations operations, products and services. Exercise: You will apply the RATS framework to evaluate the possibilities for for your organization's global expansion.
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Break
3:45pm - 5:30pm	Understanding Institutions: Variations Across Organizations & Societies W.Richard Scott, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University An overview of institutional theory. Offers a theoretical framework to understand how cognitive-cultural, normative and regulative institutional elements enable, guide and constrain human behavior and how institutional arrangements vary significantly across different human societies. Exercise: You will identify specific cognitive-cultural, normative, and regulative institutions that influence your business.
5:30pm - 5:45pm	Time for Reflection - Writing Journals

Thursday, September 20, 2007

7:30am - 8:15am	Continental Breakfast
8:15am - 9:45am	Cracking the Cognitive-Cultural Code Hazel Markus, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University Offers an approach to begin to unpack the tacit, taken-for-granted, sub-conscious beliefs, assumptions, and preconceptions that we all hold; and to help our employees do the same. Exercise: You will identify some of the deep mental models, cognitive templates, and routines that influence your perspectives and behavior.
9:45am - 10:00am	Break
10:00am - 11:45am	Transplanting & Transforming Management Systems Across Institutional Contexts Mary Yoko Brannen, Professor of International Business, San Jose State University An approach for determining the parts of your business and management system that can be easily "plopped and dropped" into the foreign market context, and the parts that require substantial recontextualization upon transfer. Exercise: You will analyze your business and management system with an eye for those elements that are most likely to be recontextualized.
11:45am - 12:00pm	Time for Reflection - Writing Journals
12:00pm - 1:15pm	Lunch
1:15pm - 3:00pm	Institutional Costs, Embeddedness and Strategies to Succeed in an Unfamiliar Institutional Context Ryan Orr, Executive Director, Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects Offers an approach to understand how entrant firms incur "unforeseen institutional costs", how entrant firms in different industries face different levels of exposure to unfamiliar institutions, and how entrant firms develop strategies to cope with unfamiliar institutions and embeddedness. Exercise: You will assess the degree to which your organization is embedded in an unfamiliar institutional context for a typical overseas project.
3:00pm - 3:15pm	Break
3:15pm - 5:00pm	Matching Institutional Context, Strategy & Structure Raymond Levitt, Director, Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects Offers a framework for understanding how your organization's strategy and structure need to be in alignment with the host country institutional context. Exercise: You will assess your organizations strategy and structure, and consider whether or not it fits the various institutional contexts where you do work.

Friday, September 21, 2007

7:15am - 8:15am	Continental Breakfast
8:15am - 10:00am	Assessing Institutional Voids & Understanding the Role of Business Groups Tarun Khanna, Professor of International Business, Harvard Business School A new perspective on the role that business groups play in emerging markets in bridging institutional voids. Exercise: You will consider the external organizational/institutional structures that your organization depends on and the potential benefits of business group participation.
10:00am - 10:15am	Break
10:15am - 11:45am	Connecting People, Delivering Value: How Fluor Competes in the Global Market John McQuary, Vice President, Fluor Corporation Offers a unique look into the inner workings of a knowledge management system that is the backbone of global collaboration for one of the world's most successful engineering-construction companies. Exercise: You will assess the degree to which your organization is embedded in an unfamiliar institutional context for a typical overseas project.
11:45am - 12:00pm	Time for Reflection - Writing Journals
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Managing Global Supply Chains - Part I Hau Lee, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business A primer on global procurement and on the design of robust global supply chains. Exercise: To be announced.
2:30pm - 2:45pm	Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm	Managing Global Supply Chains - Part II Hau Lee, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business A primer on global procurement and on the design of robust global supply chains. Exercise: To be announced.
4:00pm - 4:15pm	Break
4:15pm - 5:15pm	Managing Global Supply Chains - An Industry Perspective Dennis Lorenzin, Head of Strategy & Business Development, NI An overview of the strategic approach employed at Nokia-Siemens for the planning, procurement and deployment of cellular networks in international markets. Exercise: To be announced.
5:15pm - 5:30pm	Time for Reflection - Writing Journals
5:30pm - 5:45pm	Wrap-Up

*Faculty and Sessions subject to change