Globalizing the MBA
In a Financial Times article, an INSEAD professor writes about the changes that are crucial to the future of MBA programs.
“Two things need to change. MBA programmes need to become more global. Our research shows that high performance is evenly distributed across the world. Business schools thus need to scour the globe for role models, innovative ideas and the best students. The MBA curriculum and experience needs more global cases, more discussions of multicultural issues and more comparisons of international ways of doing business.”
This sounds a lot like what NYU’s Stern School of Business is trying to do. Are you in an MBA program that explores intercultural business skills and offers multicultural business projects? Do you agree that cultural competence, the ability to effectively communicate and work across cultures, is an important attribute of a modern MBA graduate? Let us know.
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Sean

IBM came in at number one in the world for developing leaders in Fortune’s “Top Companies for Leaders” in 2009. One of IBM’s Corporate Service Corps teams was assigned to market locally crafted Ghanaian products around the world. The job “stretched me in a way we all absolutely need,” and “it gave us a shake in perspective,” said one of the team members.


