Human Resource Network Workshop

The Spring 2008 HR Network Workshop will held in Bratislava, Slovakia, April 17-18. Dr. Aneel Karnani, Professor of Strategy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan will be presenting:

This workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges that managers face in global competition and how to build an organization to meet these challenges. We will deal with companies that operate across country boundaries and the managerial issues in selling and sourcing on a global basis. Globalization is not the same as just doing business in a foreign country; that is, after all, domestic business from the perspective of managers in that country.  Human resource management plays a critical role in building an organization that is truly global rather than a collection of local units.
 
We will first explore the pattern of broad trends driving global competition. We will discuss how these trends impact differently on various industries and the strategic issues they raise for managers. We will next develop a framework for formulating and implementing strategy in companies that operate across country boundaries. The key issue is how to leverage competitive advantage across countries while simultaneously adapting to local country conditions. We will focus on how human resource practices can help build an organization – structure, processes, culture and people – to succeed in global competition.
 
Emerging economies are home to nearly 80% of the world’s population and are expected to account for nearly half of global GDP growth over the next 25 years. They represent tremendous potential markets and will be an increasingly important source of supply and/or rivalry in many industries. This workshop will focus on the particular challenges of competing in and from emerging economies.

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