EASTERN CENTRAL EUROPEAN BUSINESS PROGRAM

PEPPERDINE UNIVERISTY

BA 400 – Doing Business in Eastern & Central Europe (4 units)

ROMANIA   ♦ POLAND   ♦   RUSSIA

Sunday, May 2 – Sunday, May 23, 2004

Academic Program:  Students will enroll in BA 400, which is a business elective course.  After the three week program, students will have 30 days to complete a required paper outlining business aspects/interviews/lessons from each country. This course is primarily designed for students to gain an understanding of the business environment in these three countries, to visit the operations of major U.S. corporations, meet with local government officials and also visit historical/cultural cities in the weekends.

Students will meet approximately 20 heads of major U.S. corporations and learn about doing business in the region as well as learn about opportunities to work there post graduation or for a summer internship. Students will also meet members of the U.S. Embassy in each country (possibly the U.S. Ambassador as well) and also meet at least one minister (of finance, or education, or foreign affairs). The faculty members for this course are currently in the process of confirming meetings some of the following 35 corporations, which have operations in Romania, Poland and/or Russia:

AIG American Express AT&T Citibank Coca-Cola Dell Deloitte & Touch Ernst & Young ExxonMobil Firestone Ford General Electric General Motors Gillette GlaxoSmithKline Hewlett-Packard Honeywell IBM Johnson & Johnson KPMG Kraft Foods Levi's Lockheed Martin Microsoft Motorola Motorola Nestle Nortel Networks Oracle Pepsi Pfizer PwC Procter & Gamble Target Xerox

Locations and Travel:  The group will spend 5 business days in each of the following cities: Bucharest, Romania; Warsaw, Poland; and Moscow, Russia. The weekends will be spent visiting cultural/historical cities within a 2 hour drive from the capital cities.

Housing and Meals:  Students will be housed in 3-star hotels in the capital cities and comparable hotel accommodations during the weekend excursions. Breakfast will be provided at the hotel each morning, lunch will be provided at a local restaurant or at the U.S. corporation’s main office where the meetings take place, and dinner will be provided at a local restaurant or back at the hotel.

Personnel: The Visiting Faculty members are Professors Henry Cahill and Mike Costache.  ♦ Mr. Cahill is a retired career diplomat currently serving on the Board of Directors of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) and is returning for the 12th consecutive summer to teach at Pepperdine. During his 35 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, Mr. Cahill served as minister-counselor of the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in both New York and Geneva, where he had responsibility for global economic issues with over 180 other nations; he also served as Consul General to Bombay, India. ♦ Mr. Costache serves on Pepperdine Alumni Board of Directors and teaches “Success 101,” a course designed to better prepare graduating college students entering the job market or starting their own ventures. Mr. Costache has a background is in international business consulting and investment banking and has worked on infrastructure projects in China, India, Pakistan, and South Korea.

Cost:  The tuition cost is $3,420 for 4 units.  The International Programs charge of $3,995 covers orientations, airfare and transfers to and from airports, educational field excursions, room and board overseas, and other program extras.  Textbooks and personal costs, such as individual weekend travel, are not included; however group travel during the weekend is included in this price. Financial Aid is available for eligible students.

*Schedules depend upon airline space availabilities and may be changed. All courses and other program activities offered are dependent upon availability of faculty who teach these courses. The University contracts with scheduled air carriers and local operators and travel dates may be changed in the case of armed conflict, terrorist activity, natural disasters, strikes, or other unforeseen circumstances. The program will not travel to any country for which the U.S. Department of State has issued warnings against travel by U.S. citizens.  The International Programs Office will always have the latest information concerning these programs

To apply: http://seaver.pepperdine.edu/internationalprograms