This course is offered in direct response to student requests for a course that provides material imparting insights, appreciation, and analyses related to transportation issues that, while important, do not warrant a full course. The course will cover transportation labor, privatization, and the case against re-regulation. Topics can vary from year to year. Course participants will interact with senior executives and, as a consequence, are expected to develop insights into the characteristics of effective leaders and managers. Entrepreneurship Laboratory E-Lab is dedicated to bringing real life into the classroom.
Emphasis is on projects with actual start-up companies.
Concurrently, classroom work focuses on entrepreneurship cases. The course emphasizes the need to understand a situation, create an integrated, cross-functional strategy and implement. With the rapid growth of imports, exports, and international investment trade policy is increasingly important to business firms. This course examines the formulation of government trade policy and its implementation through the negotiation of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements. The role of business firms will be emphasized.