Globalization, Geopolitics & Global Business
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10 lessons3 levels1 capstone project
Understand how trade, capital, technology, supply chains, culture, migration, regulation and geopolitics shape global strategy. Learn to connect comparative advantage and exchange rates to localization, resilience, market entry, data sovereignty, geopolitical risk and multinational operating choices.
BASIC
- Globalization I: The Upside — CrashCourse (11 min)
Use the journey of a T-shirt to understand global production, trade, migration, culture and interdependence. - Globalization II: Good or Bad? — CrashCourse (14 min)
Balance gains from integration against inequality, environmental costs, health risks and social tradeoffs. - Specialization and Trade — CrashCourse Economics (10 min)
Build the economics foundation: comparative advantage, specialization, production possibilities and exchange.
INTERMEDIATE
- Imports, Exports, and Exchange Rates — CrashCourse Economics
Connect trade flows, currencies, deficits/surpluses and competitiveness. - Supply Chains of the Future | Davos — World Economic Forum
Study reshoring, friend-shoring, automation, capability constraints and resilience under geopolitical pressure. - The Culture Map: The Future of Management — Erin Meyer
Translate globalization into cross-cultural leadership, communication and operating-model choices.
ADVANCED
- Globalization and Trade and Poverty — CrashCourse Economics
Evaluate distributional effects, poverty reduction, technology leapfrogging and the uneven gains from trade. - Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order — Ray Dalio
Develop a long-cycle geopolitical lens for reserve currencies, debt, productivity, conflict and shifts in global power. - Supply Chains of the Future (strategy revisit) — World Economic Forum
Use the session as a board-level case: map geopolitical scenarios to sourcing, capacity, risk and investment decisions.