Globalization : Overcoming the challenges

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: DAY 1 Course Introduction: What will I learn?

Lecture 1: Welcome from Michel-Henry Bouchet

Lecture 2: Kick-off: what will I learn from this course ?

Lecture 3: Q&A video

Lecture 4: Jump-start: A few Q&As (compulsory reading!)

Lecture 5: A focus on the report

Lecture 6: In 2020 is Globalization still alive or threatened? What? When? Who?

Lecture 7: The challenge of cross-cultural management

Lecture 8: Kickoff Conference

Lecture 9: Secular stagnation: Myth or threat?

Lecture 10: Exercise : Brainstorming

Lecture 11: One or two steps further

Chapter 2: The global Big Bang: When and where?

Lecture 1: Introduction to section 2

Lecture 2: Is global growth a short story?

Lecture 3: Is the global Big Bang ever expending?

Lecture 4: Exercise: YOUR vision of the promise and pitfalls of globalization 2016-2030

Lecture 5: One or two steps further…

Chapter 3: DAY 2 Globalization: Silver bullet or more harm than good?

Lecture 1: Introduction to section 3

Lecture 2: Does Globalization hurt? (video 1) Economic liberalization

Lecture 3: Exercise : debate

Lecture 4: Does Globalization hurt? (video 2) Financial liberalization and hyperfinance

Lecture 5: Take off and catching up: myth or reality?

Lecture 6: Reshaping the world map: don’t think in acronyms!

Lecture 7: One or two steps further

Chapter 4: DAY 3 Is globalization out of breath in 2019-20?

Lecture 1: Introduction to section 4: The balance between sovereignty and interdependence

Lecture 2: Is the wealth gap rising forever?

Lecture 3: Dear Boris Johnson: BREXIT or GLOXIT? Goodbye EU or goodbye Globalization?

Lecture 4: BREXIT or GLOXIT? Goodbye EU or goodbye Globalization?

Lecture 5: One or two steps further regarding wealth inequality within & between countries

Chapter 5: Global competition to attract capital flows

Lecture 1: Introduction to section 5

Lecture 2: The push-pull forces of global capital flows

Lecture 3: Exercise : Share Your Amazing story, with interviews and testimonies

Lecture 4: Development finance flows: How much? Where and Who?

Lecture 5: One or two steps further…

Chapter 6: DAY 4 Global competitiveness: Inputs and ranking

Lecture 1: Introduction to section 6

Lecture 2: Exercise : crosscampus debate

Lecture 3: 1- Global competitiveness: The key inputs

Lecture 4: 2- Competitiveness: Measuring, rating and comparing

Lecture 5: Exercise: BCG analysis and debate

Lecture 6: 3- A glance at China's competitive edge

Lecture 7: One or two steps further regarding China's competitive edge

Chapter 7: DAY 5 How to make it work?

Lecture 1: Introduction to section 7: Is global regulation wishful thinking?

Lecture 2: Regulation and global crisis-1: Assessing governance

Lecture 3: Exercise : Ranking on best/worst examples

Lecture 4: Regulation and global crisis-2: Promoting governance

Lecture 5: The global challenge of country risk assessment

Lecture 6: Exercise : IMF debate on corruption in developed and developing countries

Chapter 8: DAY 6

Lecture 1: What is Risk all about?

Lecture 2: What is Country Risk all about ?

Lecture 3: Global risk and wealth gap

Lecture 4: One or two steps further

Lecture 5: Q&A session

Chapter 9: Final session: Course wrap up

Lecture 1: Wrap up time: Post your team report (3 oct.)

Chapter 10: ADDITIONAL- A polarized debate: the pros and cons of globalization

Lecture 1: Additional Resources for the bravest, with Obama, Friedman, Stiglitz and Krugman

Lecture 2: For globalization – The classical approach

Lecture 3: For globalization -The neo-classical approach

Lecture 4: Seven minutes with Milton (Friedman)

Lecture 5: Against globalization – the Marxist approach

Lecture 6: Against globalization -The neo-keynesian dissidents

Lecture 7: Six minutes with Barack (Obama)

Lecture 8: Globalization's pitfalls: 8-10 mns with Joseph (Stiglitz)

Lecture 9: Six minutes with Paul (Krugman)

Chapter 11: ADDITIONAL- The challenge of global warming and sustainability

Lecture 1: Observing climate change

Lecture 2: Introducing Global Warming

Lecture 3: One or two steps further

Chapter 12: ADDITIONAL- The challenge of global offshoring

Lecture 1: Global offshoring

Lecture 2: One or two steps further

Lecture 3: Correction