Honors Leadership & Networking

Catalog description

In this course students will travel to company locations - including those that focus on research and development, manufacturing, service origination, and sales - throughout the world to meet businesspeople and learn by seeing and hearing first-hand how they strategize, conduct market and consumer research, test and develop products and services, gain and maintain customers and their trust and loyalty, determine product lifecycles, address ethical issues and crises, and promote and grow their industries. Pre-trip, students will independently conduct research and develop written reports and oral presentations about the companies to be visited, using these as centerpieces for discussion leading up to the trip. Post-trip, students will publicly present their learning and reflections.