2008-09-17

International MBA: professor Paul Marer - for the first time in Ukraine

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New academic year for the 2nd-course International MBA students’ begun with "International Business Environment" course. This course was held by Paul Marer, Ph.D. at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, visiting professor at the International Institute of Business.

The course discusses globalization, its drivers and impacts, the types of opportunities and challenges globalization is creating for businesses, who gains and loses during the process. Participants have explored how political, legal and economic systems and business cultures differ and their implications for cross-border business, especially foreign investment.

 

The basics of the global monetary system, European integration, and the creation and operation of the Euro, with particular reference to its impact on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Ukraine have discussed.

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Paul Marer, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, IIB Visiting Professor , Professor Emeritus of International Business, Academic Director and Area Coordinator at CEU GSB, Professor at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University for 25 years, Honorary doctorate from Corvinus University, Budapest (1999), a native of Hungary.

Consulting Experience: Consultant to Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Advisor to OECD Board of Directors, appointed by the president of the United States to serve on the board of trustees of the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund (1990-2006).