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Global Center Directors John Roberts and Bill Barnett and Associate Director Peter Henry, along with thirty-five of our faculty, are researching issues that impact global businesses. New faculty research infuses MBA core and elective courses with current thinking on the inherent complexity of international business. Students develop an understanding of the challenges of running operations across dispersed geographies, in a variety of cultures simultaneously, and under different legal, economic, and political institutions.
The Global Center focuses its efforts on community engagement, teaching, and research:
- We engage with globally minded leaders through conferences, seminars, and speaker events. Our aim is to spark discussion, debate, and ideas that inform and guide students, faculty, and global leaders.
- An understanding of global issues is an important foundation for our students as the shift to global scale accelerates. We encourage teaching on global business by crafting and distributing curriculum materials. The Global Center has assembled a library of globally related business cases and supports the 36 internationally-oriented MBA core and elective courses at the GSB.
- We support scholarship on a wide range of global management issues. Recent highlights include the publication of The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Oxford University Press, 2004) by John Roberts. The Economist noted Roberts' work as the best business book of the year. Faculty have also produced research papers on topics such as funding for development banks, the impact of corporations as agents of change, and the subversion of democracy through corrupt news media.
