Certification in International Business Management

Explore the introduction to international business in unit one, covering the scope and benefits, the micro environment, suppliers, customers, competitors, and the political and legal environment.

Explore the rapid growth and global scope of international business, including cross-border trade of goods, services, capital, and knowledge, along with financial instruments, intellectual property, and the interdependence of markets.

Explore scope of international business activities, focusing on opportunities and problems from operating in various countries, with uncertain rules and a global perspective linking exporting, importing, licensing, and cross-border flows.

Explore the benefits of international business, including expanded markets, more jobs, revenue growth, risk management, diverse goods, and stronger cross-border reputations driven by trade, economies of scale, and government policies.

Explore the micro-environment: the firm's immediate surroundings that shape daily operations through suppliers, intermediaries, competitors, customers, and publics, and see how macro forces also influence the business.

Suppliers are entities that provide goods and services to other organizations, forming supply chain partners. They maintain quality and manage supplier risk amid supply uncertainty that raises inventories and costs.

Customers drive revenues and keep businesses alive; attract and satisfy need-based and wandering customers across individuals, households, industries, and governments to retain revenue.

Identify competitors as firms offering similar products and those competing for discretionary income, highlighting direct, indirect, future, and replacement rivals, and how competition lowers prices, raises quality, and spurs innovation.

Explore how political and legal environments shape business by linking government policy, regulations, and legal frameworks to product standards, advertising rules, and market protection against fraud.

Explore the international economic environment, including institutions and agreements, the World Trade Organization, and the differences between G8, GATT, and WTO.

Explore the international economic environment and its impact on consumers and firms, highlighting globalization, the four business cycle stages, and key factors like GDP, taxes, and infrastructure.

Explore how the international economic environment shifted with capital movement as the driving force, reshaping politics and the free market, while infrastructure, education, health care, and technology shape foreign trade.

the lecture traces the Havana charter and 53 nations forming an international trade organization, leading to GATT, the WTO in 1995, and the roles of World Bank and IMF.

World Trade Organization regulates international trade as an intergovernmental body established in 1995, upholding non-discrimination and transparent rules through ministerial conferences and a general council and dispute settlement.

GATT was a temporary treaty with no status and focused on goods tariffs; the WTO is a treaty-based organization replacing GATT, covering goods and services with faster, binding dispute settlement.

Explore the World Bank's functions, activities, and key concepts such as technical assistance, MIGA, ICSID, host and home country relations, internationally integrated MNCs, technology transfer, and mergers and acquisitions.

Explore the World Bank’s role as an international development finance institution, providing financing, technical assistance, and research to developing countries to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development.

Leverage the World Bank’s core functions to reduce poverty through loans for development, private investments guarantees, and international trade promotion, while guiding policy and knowledge for growth.

Explore the World Bank's other activities, focusing on training via the Economic Development Institute that educates officials to improve management and investment efficiency, supporting growth through financing and advisory services.

The World Bank offers technical assistance to member countries in engineering, institutions, and inter-organizational cooperation, improving policies, project design, and implementation capacity.

Learn how the multinational investment guarantee agency, part of the World Bank Group, offers political risk insurance and guarantees to protect foreign direct investments in developing countries, covering non-commercial risks.

Introduces the international centre for settlement of investment disputes (ICSID), established in 1966 with 139 members, providing conciliation and arbitration of investment disputes to foster confidence between states and investors.

Explore how MNCs shape host and home country relations through investment and technology transfer. They influence competition, prices, employment, and the development of host economies.

Examine how internationally integrated MNCs design strategy to pursue worldwide objectives, integrating production and value delivery across borders and fostering globalization through foreign direct investment.

Technology transfer moves data, designs, inventions, materials, software, trade secrets, and knowledge from one organization to another to enable product realization under policies that benefit public and private sectors.

Examine mergers and acquisitions in multinational companies as corporate strategy tools to grow, diversify, and increase market share through consolidation of major assets.

Explore international technology issues, including technology acquisition, choice and terms of transfer, costs of transfer, barriers, and creating local capability, with cyber security threats and data protection.

Explore the nature of the international business environment through pest analysis, covering political, economic, social, and technological environments, including the cultural environment, and examining economic trade practices.

Explore the nature of the international business environment as a complex network of economic, political, legal, and cultural forces guiding exporting, importing, licensing, and franchising across international markets.

Explore pest analysis as a macro environment framework of political, economic, social, and technological factors shaping external influences on strategy and product development.

Analyze how the political environment shapes business operations through government policies, international law, and political stability. Assess how policy frameworks and trade regulations impact profitability.

Explore the economic environment as the external factors shaping consumer behavior, purchasing power, supply and demand, and business performance, including inflation, unemployment, interest and exchange rates, and macroeconomic activity.

Explore the social environment as the realm of values, culture, and social relationships that shape consumer preferences and business success within pest analysis.

Analyze how the cultural environment guides international business, from differences in foreign practices to culture's learned norms that shape product, place, time, and price.

Explore how the technological environment shapes business by driving new products, artificial intelligence, and information and communications technology innovations, while influencing production methods, logistics, and sustainable practices.

Explain economic trade policies, including the spectrum from protectionism to free trade, and outline instruments such as tariffs, quotas, and anti-dumping duties shaping exports and imports.

Explore foreign investment as unit five, covering interactions, its role, and the national FDI policy framework. Examine competition for FDI with incentives, monetary policy, and fiscal policy.

Explore foreign investment introduction, including foreign direct investment, foreign portfolio investment, foreign indirect investment, sovereign wealth funds, and greenfield investments, examining roles in cross-border growth, job creation, and economic development.

Explore how foreign investment fuels economic development by mobilizing capital and resources, expanding infrastructure, boosting productivity, creating jobs, and strengthening the link between science, technology, and industry through FDI.

Discover the national FDI policy framework guiding foreign direct investment in India, including automatic routes up to 99%, key regulators, and the aims of technology transfer and growth.

Explore how governments use incentives to attract foreign direct investment, fueling bidding wars while ensuring non-discriminatory, transparent, and proportional benefits linked to the investment.

Explore how central banks use monetary policy to fix exchange rate targets, employing sterilized interventions and tools like open market operations, discount rates, and reserve requirements to maintain price stability.

Explore fiscal policy as a tool to promote strong and sustainable growth, full employment, and poverty reduction through taxation, public spending, and public borrowing.

Explore the concept of international business, pest analysis, and fiscal and monetary policy, and learn to summarize these topics clearly in your own words for assignments.