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University of Pennsylvania

Global Trends for Business and Society

In this course, you’ll learn to analyze rapidly changing global trends, their effects on consumer and labor markets, financial systems, and geopolitical relationships among countries all over the world. Professor Mauro Guillen of the Wharton School has designed this course to help you understand the magnitude of influence these trends have on the business world and society. Through real-world case studies, both historical and contemporary, you’ll examine how changes within one society affect others. By the end of this course, you’ll have gained the tools to be able to identify, analyze, and adapt to global changes as they affect your business and society.

Status: Global Marketing
Status: Systems Thinking
Course12 hours

Featured reviews

NB

4.0Reviewed May 15, 2018

The course gives a good and critical overview of the biggest global trends of the last, and the coming decade. It solidified my knowledge about geo politics, and also learned a lot.

ED

4.0Reviewed Dec 3, 2020

Excellent course explained clearly and compellingly. It would benefit from an update, given US foreign policy over the last 4 years, China and Hong Kong, Brexit, and COVID-19.

GY

4.0Reviewed Jul 28, 2018

Issues on sustainable development (more on environmental and social issues) can be added besides economical, political and governance aspects.

DG

5.0Reviewed Feb 8, 2021

It has been an absolute pleasure to learn about the the world economics, politics and global society's future scenarios based on known data, information and analysis.

AM

5.0Reviewed Mar 13, 2019

Extremely informational and highly thought provoking. Would highly recommend this course for anyone interested in international business, public policy, and other forms of global engagements.

W

5.0Reviewed May 11, 2019

This course is very informational and exciting! I highly recommend taking this course to develop understanding above global economics and business.

EL

5.0Reviewed Dec 1, 2020

Professor Guillen was fantastic! Clear explanations and interesting presentation of topics. I learned a lot about a topic with which I was very unfamiliar.

MD

5.0Reviewed Feb 15, 2019

Learned so much from this course. A broad range of topics, and a delightful way to navigate through the changing times in global trends. Highly recommend!

CD

4.0Reviewed Jun 8, 2021

Very informative course, I enjoyed the videos and found the transcripts useful. However I am the t ype of learner who benefits from literature and reading material. This was lacking,

DD

5.0Reviewed Apr 27, 2020

Very informative course on the importance and the influence of various countries on the Global Trends and Economy. Highly recommended for people seeking skills on international market trends.

JZ

5.0Reviewed Apr 28, 2020

Very nice professor! He's competent and it's pleasure listening to him. Topics are easy to understand and commonly known but statistics make this course fascinating.

SS

4.0Reviewed Apr 7, 2018

More depth in content is expected. It has a very good overview. Maybe we can split it into two level with advanced business context topics in 2nd level.

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