MAP 2021-22 | Building and Managing a Global Enterprise – Key Considerations

This course addresses branding and financial concerns on a global stage. Beginning with an investigation of how product branding is managed in today’s internet age, the course provides several authentic examples to illustrate key concepts. It then turns to the topics of competing for the global customer and managing the twin challenges of managing liquidity and risk.

Faculty

Prof. Carol Scott

Prof. Carol Scott

Professor

Carol A. Scott is a professor of marketing and faculty director for the Executive Program at The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught in the Executive MBA program since its inception in 1982 and was on the faculty of The Ohio State University for three years prior to joining UCLA in 1977.

She was named the outstanding teacher at The Anderson School for the 1983-84 year by the MBA student body. From 1986 through 1994 she served the School in a variety of administrative positions and in 1985 was a visiting associate professor at the Harvard Business School.

Professor Scott’s research interests include marketing positioning strategies and customer analysis for marketing decisions. Her work has been published in marketing and social science journals, and she has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, and the Journal of Marketing.

She has served as a consultant to a variety of profit and non-profit organizations on questions of marketing strategy, market positioning, and marketing effectiveness, and she often serves as an expert witness in litigation involving marketing questions. She was a member of the board of directors for Sizzler International, Inc. for six years, and presently serves on the board of United Online, Inc., the parent of Netzero, Juno, Classmates, and MyPoints.

Education

Ph.D. Marketing, 1975, Northwestern University
M.S. Management, 1972, Northwestern University
B.S. Education, 1970, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

Aerospace, Consumer Behavior, Corporate Renewal, Customer Analysis, Global Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Medical Marketing, Retailing, Trademarks, Marketing Trends

Prof. Filipe Caro

Prof. Filipe Caro

Professor

Dr. Filipe Caro joined the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2005. His main research interests are related to decisions made under uncertainty with a strong emphasis on practical applications. In his PhD dissertation at MIT, he developed analytical models with demand learning for the dynamic assortment problem faced by fast-fashion retailers. This led to an ongoing collaboration with the Spanish apparel retailer Zara that made him a Franz Edelman Laureate in 2009. On the theoretical side, his work on product and price competition with satiation effects won the first prize in the 2010 INFORMS Junior Faculty Paper competition.

Some of his current research projects include carbon allocation in supply chains; coordination of pricing and inventory decisions; forecasting; and exploration versus exploitation problems.

Prior to receiving his PhD, Professor Caro worked as an instructor in the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Chile. He taught courses in optimization, dynamic programming and stochastic processes and also worked on research projects involving natural resources, mostly in the forestry and copper industries. He continues to collaborate on a permanent basis with his colleagues in Chile.

At UCLA Anderson, Professor Caro teaches the MBA core course on operations and technology management and doctoral level courses on stochastic models in operations management. In 2007, he was awarded the George Robbins Assistant Professor Award that distinguishes excellence in teaching at the UCLA Anderson School.

Recognitions

2014 ENRE Best Publication Award in Natural Resources.

2013 Eric and “E” Juline Faculty Excellence in Research Award.

2013 ecch Production & Operations Management Award and New Case Writer Award.

2012 EURO Excellence in Practice Award, Finalist

2012 MSOM Meritorious Service Award

2010 MSOM Meritorious Service Award

2010 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition, First Prize

2010 Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award, Finalist

2009 Franz Edelman Laureate

2008 Deloitte Consulting Award for Management Field Study Achievement

2007 Robbins Assistant Professor Teaching Award

Education

Ph.D. in operations management, 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ind. Eng. In industrial engineering, (Profesional Title) 1999, University of Chile
B.Sc. in industrial engineering, 1998, University of Chile

Interests

Retailing, supply chain management, bandit problems, approximate dynamic programming, natural resources

Prof. Mark Garmaise

Prof. Mark Garmaise

Professor

Dr. Mark Garmaise’s primary research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, real estate, entrepreneurship and banking. With his co-author Tobias Moskowitz, he received the 2004 BGI Brennan Award for the best paper published in the Review of Financial Studies and the 2005 BGI Brennan Runner-up Award for the best paper published in the Review of Financial Studies.

Dr. Garmaise teaches the core corporate finance course and an elective on venture capital and private equity. He was awarded the 2006 Eric and “E” Juline Excellence

in Research Award, the 2007 Citibank Teaching Award for most outstanding MBA teacher, the 2009 Fully Employed MBA Teaching Excellence Award, the 2011 Full-time MBA Teaching Excellence Award and the 2012 Neidorf Decade Teaching Award. He has published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Finance and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Dr. Garmaise taught at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, before joining the faculty at UCLA Anderson.

Education

Ph.D. in finance, 1998, Stanford University
A.B. in mathematics and philosophy, magna cum laude, 1994, Harvard College

Interests

Corporate finance, real estate, financial contracting, banking, entrepreneurship

 

Course Learning Objectives:

  • Identify key benefits of globalizing a company’s marketing efforts.
  • Evaluate a specific company’s global market opportunity, using an established six-step model (organizational readiness, product suitability, country identification, industry and target-market assessment, local partner selection, and sales potential estimation).
  • Justify a recommendation on which elements of the marketing mix (product, positioning, brand, packaging, advertising, pricing, sales promotions, public relations, and distribution) need to be localized, based on the maxim “Globalize as much as you can; localize as much as you have to.”
  • Describe how a particular company achieves both “fit” and “focus” as it pursues its business activities.
  • Analyze a particular company to determine how its choices with regard to management, design, sourcing/manufacturing, distribution, merchandising, and store operations align with the company’s strategy.
  • Calculate the Net Working Capital needs of an expanding company.

Syllabus

Learning Objectives:
  • Identify key benefits of globalizing a company’s marketing efforts.
  • Evaluate a specific company’s global market opportunity, using an established six-step model (organizational readiness, product suitability, country identification, industry and target-market assessment, local partner selection, and sales potential estimation).
  • Justify a recommendation on which elements of the marketing mix (product, positioning, brand, packaging, advertising, pricing, sales promotions, public relations, and distribution) need to be localized, based on the maxim “Globalize as much as you can; localize as much as you have to.
Module Components:

Video Lectures:

  • Motivation and Evaluation of Global Opportunities
  • Global Opportunity Assessment
  • Glocal Marketing

Readings:

  • Global Marketing – Driving Expansion
  • Six Classic Distribution Paradigms for Global Marketing Channel Strategy
  • Globalization, Converging Commonality and Business Strategy

Case Study:

  • FreeForAll Healthy Snacks (Global Marketing)

Quiz:

  • Global Marketing Managemen
Learning Objectives:
  • Describe how a particular company achieves both “fit” and “focus” as it pursues its business activities.
  • Analyze a particular company to determine how its choices with regard to management, design, sourcing/manufacturing, distribution, merchandising, and store operations align with the company’s strategy.
Module Components:

Video Lectures:

  • Key Concepts of Global Strategy and its Execution
  • Zara Case Study – A lesson in Execution

 Readings:

  • Ensuring Growth through Focus
  • Global Corporate Social Responsibility

 Case Study:

  • Simpler Shoes (Global Operations)

Quiz:

  • Global Operations Management

 

Learning Objectives: 
  • Calculate the Net Working Capital needs of an expanding company.
  • Using a given set of facts, determine if purchasing insurance at a quoted rate would be an effective risk-management strategy.
Module Components:

Video Lectures:

  • The Importance of Liquidity Management
  • Understanding and Ensuring Risk Management

Readings:

  • Managing the Liquidity Crisis
  • Managing for Global Financial Risks

Case Study:

  • Simpler Shoes (Global Finance)

Quiz: 

  • Global Financial Management

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