Many MBA courses will train you to excel as a manager. Few will equip you to face the challenges at the C-suite level. This is one of the few. As a CEO, you will need to navigate an environment where knowledge about political factors is highly relevant to expand your business, invest in international markets and protect your company against expropriation and harmful regulations. This course will provide you with frameworks and examples to understand the interaction between politics and the economy, map political risks to investments, and devise strategies to react and reduce risks coming from political factors. In addition to covering frameworks of universal application, we will discuss cases from Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Renato Lima de Oliveira is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Asia School of Business (ASB).
His main research interest lies in the political economy of development and state-business relations, particularly in the areas of energy, industrial and innovation policies, government accountability, and non-market strategies. His PhD dissertation work analyzed the development of the oil industry and the local supply chain in Brazil, Malaysia, and Mexico, such as the policies used for industrial upgrading and the promotion of innovation. His research has appeared in journals like Comparative Political Studies and edited collections published by Oxford University Press, Routledge, and others.
Prof. Renato has worked as a consultant for energy, environment, and politics, including assignments for the Ministry of Energy of Mexico and the World Bank. Outside of his research and teaching activities, Prof. Renato has worked before as a business reporter in Brazil with experience in newspaper, TV and radio.
Lima de Oliveira received his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. He holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a bachelor’s degree in communication from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). He is also a research affiliate at the MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC) and a fellow at the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS-Malaysia).
More about his research and professional activities can be found at the website www.lima-de-oliveira.com.
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