I'm actually standing on the terrace of the north campus of of ESA
with the beautiful city of Barcelona stretching behind me.
And this seemed like a good place to conclude this journey that we've been on.
Not just because ESA is the institution under
who's auspices this course is being offered.
But also because ESA is the place where the ideas that have been presented to
you first started to come together in the form in which you've seen them.
Specifically, IESE is where I moved to in 2006, partly to
realize my vision of developing a required course on globalization and business.
A course that is still offered here and that farms the basis for
the online version that's been presented to you.
In that sense, my personal trajectory reflects some of the things talked about
in the last lecture, in terms of being willing to move across borders and
to stretch yourself, if necessary, in pursuit of your own personal objectives.
Beyond to that lecture, there are three other specific items that are pending.
The survey that's been posted to the Coursera website.
The PTP assignment that's due on March 30th.
And the evaluations that you have to perform of each others PPP
assignments and the week that follows.
A more specific deadlines and instructions can be found on the course syllabus.
More broadly than those three specific pending items,
there's also a much broader unfinished agenda.
Because obviously to talk about globalization in just eight sessions is
to do the equivalent of what, in America, is called drinking from a fire hose.
You're taking in so much material that it's really hard to process it all.
So the objective in this course wasn't
to provide a comprehensive treatment of globalization.
Rather, the course was inspired by one of the things that I most agree with about
education, a quote due to the Anglo-Irish poet, W B Yates,
who said, education is not about filling a pail It's about lighting a fire.
I hope that the material that we've had has lit some kind of fire.
Has inspired you to rethink the world that we live in
to go beyond some of the simplicities associated with Globaloney.
And to see the world as it really is with tremendous divisions but
also some tremendous opportunities to build bridges across those divisions.