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Global Management Studies
"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability...to appreciate more lovingly our own."
-Margaret Mead
Today's increasingly international business environment demands that managers have an international business perspective which enhances their business and management knowledge. A study by The Economist, for example, suggested that an international business perspective, along with leadership and entrepreneurial skills, are the three key requirements which companies seek when hiring executives. Similarly, a common theme among recruiters of business school graduates, as reported in Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, and other business magazines, is the need for an international business perspective.
Global Management Studies (GMS) is an experiential course which is offered each spring semester and gives our Olin MBAs such a perspective. It centers on a project in which students explore a specific international business issue. This issue could be functional, industrial, geographical, cultural, and/or topical in nature. In order to complete the project, students conduct field research in one or more countries during the two-week spring break. The field research includes such activities as lectures, factory tours, meetings with company managers, social events, and cultural visits. The project culminates in a formal presentation to members of the Olin community at the end of the semester. View the list of upcoming GMS courses.
Past GMS courses have included Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Korea, Japan, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
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