This course focuses on the global business environment as it relates to International Trade Import and Export. Students will engage in a comprehensive analysis of the global business environment and will have a solid understanding of the functional tools used to manage the global business landscape. Throughout the course students will apply learning skills into real-world personal and professional applications

The current labor market has undergone profound transformations and paradigm shifts resulting from the new rules of the game in the economic and cultural environment. In this context, strategically managing the human capital happens to occupy a strategic role in all the processes and functions that compose it. 

This course prepares students to be able to understand how human resources management and employees can be core competencies for organizations as well as learning through case studies and analysis different techniques and models of diagnosis to deal with the impact on the human dimension that causes the introduction of changes in a company. What is the impact of the new economy on the work market? What does it mean to strategically manage Human Capital in a company? How are people managed to enter the organization? How is human talent developed through learning? How is human performance managed, evaluated and compensated? 

The above, with the strategic purpose of establishing a sustainable advantage through the people that integrate the organization.

This course offers an exploration of methods for optimizing scarce resources, management of the production function in business firms with special attention given to production, transportation, inventory, quality and cost control.

It provides a broad understanding and knowledge of several operations management concepts such as operations strategy, process design, forecasting, inventory management, scheduling, and quality management and how they applied to actual business situations.