The Boston Consulting Group collaborated with the MBA International program to deliver the “International Business and Strategic Change” course for fall 2014.
The course focused on topics that include: the changing demographics of international business; political and economic country differences; the foundations and development of cross border trade and investment; the international financial environment; entering foreign markets; the strategies to competing in the global market place; managing and controlling global operations; and new challenges of emerging economies.
The lectures were delivered by partners, principals, and project leaders at BCG as follows:
- Major forces of strategic change (I): Macroeconomic, new consumers, resource constraints and new energy – Speaker: Kimon Palinginis, Principal at BCG
- Major forces of strategic change (II): the Technology Disruption – Speakers: Christina Paraskevopoulou, Principal at BCG & Aris Xarchas, Project Leader at BCG
- The tsunami – Speaker: Ioannis Psarros, Project Leader at BCG
- International financial environment – Speaker: Vassilis Antoniades, Partner and Managing Director at BCG
- New market entry-Being bold and prepared for uncertainty – Speaker: Kimon Palinginis, Principal at BCG
- Adaptive advantage & Fit to win – Speaker: Chryssos Kavounides, Project Leader at BCG
- The $10 trillion prize – Speaker: Christina Paraskevopoulou, Principal at BCG
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