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BUSINESS
AND PUBLIC POLICY
Ranked as one of my top courses, Business and Public Policy focused on
the non-market environment of business and the ways that managers can
shape this environment to their corporation's strategic advantage. The
non-market environment includes the various political, legal, and social
forces that provide the "rules of the game" under which companies,
industries, and national economies operate.
Required reading for this course was Daniel Yergin's and Joseph
Stanislaw's The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Governments and the
Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World. This book offers profound
insights into evolution of the diverse economies that exist around the
globe. From the tiger economies of Asia to the lumbering economies of
Russia and Eastern Europe, Yergin and Stanislaw provide rich histories of
the origins many of the world's economies as well as provide a framework
for understanding the converging global economy.
The course was organized into two distinct sections:
Non Market Forces:
The World Economies:
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The European Union
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Russia
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South America
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Japan
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Asian tiger economies
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Emerging markets
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