In a Financial Times article, an INSEAD professor writes about changes 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. I also wrote an article for Mobility magazine called Establishing a Global Mindset: International Education, where I discovered the enormous opportunities a prospective student has today. There are many global graduate school programs, including MBAs, but leaping across several borders and interacting with diverse people is one prerequisite for which students must prepare. In the end, an international course of study will put any job candidate ahead by demonstrating their global skill set, of which intercultural communication and experience abroad is key to getting hired.

Are you in an MBA program that explores intercultural business skills and assigns 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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