Program Overview

International Business Policies and Strategies

Course Description

This course provides a systematic approach for evaluating and implementing the strategies and policies that govern a firm's international business activities.

Course Details

• Duration: As few as 11 weeks
• Units: 4.0
• Current Formats: In Person
• Cost: Starting at $905.00
• Typically Available: Fall, Spring

What You Can Learn

Explore how outsourcing, business unit portfolio optimization, and global marketing are utilized in an international business strategy. Understand how and why operations planning, information systems design and control, and conflict resolution inform business policy.

About This Course

This course provides a systematic approach for determining, implementing, and evaluating the strategies and policies that govern a firm's international business activities. Topics include:

• Outsourcing
• Business unit portfolio optimization
• Global marketing
• R&D decentralization
• Industrial relations
• Implementation of strategies that focus on operations planning, information systems design, control, and conflict resolution.

Prerequisites

• MGMT X 460.902 Introduction to International Business
• MGMT X 460.99 International Business Management
• Two other international business courses
• Or consent of instructor

Spring 2026 Schedule

• Date: March 30 - June 8
• Time: Monday 6:30PM - 9:30PM PT
• Instructor: Namjoo Hashemi
• Format: In Person
• Location: UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Fee: $905.00

Course Requirements

• Internet access required to retrieve course materials.

Course Syllabus

Schedule

• Lecture: Mon Mar 30, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon Apr 6, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon Apr 13, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon Apr 20, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon Apr 27, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon May 4, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon May 11, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon May 18, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon May 25, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon Jun 1, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
• Lecture: Mon Jun 8, 2026, 6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT, UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood

Applicable Programs

International Trade and Commerce

This course applies toward the International Trade and Commerce certificate, which covers the business, economic, and political forces dominating the expansive international marketplace.