AALEP RE-ENERGIZES COURSE ON BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY (BAPP)

Increasingly MBAs are rushing to enroll in a host of public policy courses in the hope that knowledge of often inscrutable public policy decisions will help make them more successful in business.

AALEP's Public Policy Course is a Practitioner Taught Course (PTC) that adds new expertise to current curriculum, focuses on the development of specific skills that contribute to career enhancement. Our Business and Public Policy Course (BAPP) covers all aspects of government and its regulation of busines, its role in the greater economy, and its own fiscal matters. Also included are such issues as non-profits, sustainability, urban development, energy and environmental issues including climate change. The objective of our BAPP is to impart a basic understanding of legislation and politics- essentially how government works- to give students the tools they need to come up with tenable goals for their businesses. In other words, our focus is on the importance to incorporate regulation into a business strategy, as well as to consider the regulatory challenges involved in doing business abroad.

Business leaders face an increasingly complicated and fluid legal and regulatory environment, one characterized by frequent interactions between business and government. The ability to manage business-government relations issues is becoming a leadership skill. Our course provides students with the tools and knowledge they need to effectively manage the regulatory, political and legal environment of the business.

Basically AALEP's course attempts to answer two central questions. First, how does public policy influence business strategy, operations, organization, and governance, and with what consequences for business and society? Second, how do businesses themselves influence policy institutions, policy processes and other policy actors and with what outcome?

AALEP's course considers such techniques and activities as envronmental analysis, issue maangement, and public affairs and look at five areas presenting critical challenges for both analysts and practitioners: These are:

1. Corporate Governance
2. Organizational Ethics
3. The Political Influence of Business
4. The Integration of BAPP, with strategic management
5. Multinational Business-Society Relationships

For additional information, please contact AALEP's Secretariat  aalep@numericable.be