Global Business

Catalog description

The course is for non-Tepper BA students and provides a comprehensive overview of business, including how enterprises determine goals, strategies and operational tactics in competitive markets and the increasingly global environment. It covers different types of businesses - entrepreneurial and corporate, industries, markets, and economies. Students learn about the role of business in society, the various functional areas that make business work, and how companies develop plans and processes to achieve their goals for customers, shareholders, and employees. The course has special emphasis on providing a broad overview of business to augment students' major area of study for their professional development. Declared Tepper BA students are not eligible to enroll. This course may use third-party course material that is not available for individual purchase from the publisher. If so, the third-party course material will be secured and provided by the Tepper School to students enrolled in the course, and students enrolled in the course will be required to pay to the University the associated additional course materials fee for the third-party course material provided. The amount of the course materials fee is dependent on the University's cost of the particular materials provided, and typically ranges from $13 to $75.