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QU MBA Executive Study in Hungary (May 30 - June 12, 2010)

Corporate Sponsors for 2010 (in progress)

Spring: Program Brochure

For students also doing EC 600 , EC 688 , or MBA 610

Corporate Visits for 2010:

Hotel Accommodations for students in 2010: Ibis Budapest Centrum (Info on Raday street area here )

Non-Corporate Visits for 2010: Corvinus University School of Management, and Hungarian Parliament

Other Useful Sites: Buda Castle, Hungarian Opera, Terror House (Optional), Town of Pecs

Links suggested by QU IB Professors: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/  , http://www.netmba.com/mgmt/ , http://www.themanager.org/models/diamond.htm , http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/global/diamond/

Reading

From Ball	From His Excellency Geza Jeszenszky
Prior to Departure	Prior to Departure	Company Readings
Quick Hungarian History Budapest Book 1956 Book 1956 Film footage: youtube Economic Analysis Crash Course: here or see materials for EC 600 and EC 688 below Wolff's MBA Guide to Hungary (2008): here Hungary in Transition(1980s - early 1990s): http://www.fathom.com/course/10701019/	Reading 1: Hungarian History and the Politics of Transition Reading 2: Hungary's Foreign Policy Dilemmas Since Regaining Sovereignty Reading 3: More Bosnias? National and Ethnic Tensions in the Post-Communist World Reading 4: The Genesis of a Lasting Quarrel in Central Europe	MOL: (For privacy reasons, these are on Blackboard for our course under "Course Materials") Downstream and Upstream Energy Markets Nabucco Pipeline Basics South Stream Pipeline Basics
Example reports from 2009: Best 3 (alphabetically): E.ON, LighTech, Zwack Others (alphabetically): AMCO, Bausch&Lomb, Deloitte, Dijbeszedo, Etyek Kuria	Other: Let's Learn Hungarian (free pod casts, etc.)	Corvinus Schedule

Hungarian News

Budapest Sun -  general news	Portfolio.hu - all business and investment oriented.
Budapest Business Journal - business oriented but also general news	Heti Valasz (English) - like a Hungarian "US News and World Report"
Economist Magazine	Budapest Analysis (Political Analysis on the Region)
Der Spiegel - German paper with good English site	Financial Times