China ModuleCourses

Hong Kong and Shanghai, China

Technology Innovation

Taking an interactive approach, Technology Innovation explores the impact of new information technologies on business processes. Students are presented with new concepts in IT and process innovations and asked to consider the implications for their own companies or for a hypothetical company situation.

Professional Responsibilities (Business Ethics)

What role should ethics play in the conduct of business? How do cultural considerations bear on the issue? Professional Responsibility and Business Ethics address these questions with specific reference to the business environment in the People’s Republic of China. Investigating the relationship of ethics to success and culture to ethics, this course equips participants to tackle the thorny ethical issues associated with doing business in China and other culturally distinctive nations.

Doing Business in Asia: From the Outside In

Focusing on China, the emerging giant of Asian business, Doing Business in Asia examines the Chinese business environment through a variety of briefings and field visits. Short classroom briefings acquaint students with Chinese business from a value chain perspective. Thereafter company visits and briefings are arranged at sites in Hong Kong, Southern China and Shanghai. Engaging in both observation and discussion, students experience Chinese business at work first hand.