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Chris Safley and Scott Anderson, seated, and other MAC students met with Ernst & Young staff members in their London office. |
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Master of Accounting students toured the sites in Lille, France. |
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Understanding other cultures and their business practices has always been important for success in the global business environment. With the Internet dissolving geographic boundaries on all fronts, cultural understanding and international experiences are even more important for today's business students.
Undergraduate
International Experiences
The college’s undergraduate students are encouraged to participate in study abroad programs offered through NC State or other academic institutions. They should check with the college’s advising office to verify appropriate transfer of credit to their NC State academic program. Undergraduate students in the dual-degree Hamilton Scholars Program, offered jointly with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, includes an international experience requirement that can be fulfilled through a semester abroad or international work experience. The International Business Club, launched by Hamilton Scholars, provides all NC State students exposure to speakers with international business experience.
International Program for MAC Students
Master of Accounting (MAC) students have the opportunity to study at the IESEG School of Management’s International Management Program (IMP) at Catholic University in Lille, France. The IMP brings together students from several countries to create an international classroom where students work in multi-national, multi-cultural groups led by an international faculty team. The MAC international experience was led in Spring 2005 by accounting professors Roby Sawyers and Greg Jenkins.
The MAC students chose between two week-long
courses taught by international professors: Virtual Work and Virtual Teams -
Managing New Ways of Working and Small and Medium Enterprise Management,
Development and International Growth
Strategies. While in France, Jenkins
and Sawyers taught a Strategic Cost
Management class to 35 students
from 15 different countries. En route
to their academic program, the MAC students
stopped at London to meet with representatives
of Ernst & Young.
International Opportunities for MBAs
Master of Business Administration
(MBA) students must complete a three-credit
hour international studies requirement.
One of the four global course options,
Business 590, International Entrepreneurship,
includes an international experience
during spring break. Additional information
about these programs appears below.
MBAs also may choose from semester
and summer abroad courses of study
available through the MBA program’s
international partner schools.
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| A stop at a cafe in a small town outside of Vienna, Austria, gave MBA student Melissa Kennedy, center, a chance to test her new German language skills. |
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The outdoor market at Aux-en-Provence provided a break from classes. |
International
Entrepreneurship, Business 590G
This course uses two activities to examine the role of entrepreneurship in identifying and exploiting international business opportunities: seminars and case studies of companies located throughout the world in a variety of industries and stages of development, and an international business strategy simulation, NegoSim.
MBA students taking
this course in Spring 2005 spent Spring
Break in France. After a day of exploring
the city of Paris, they joined with
other international business students
for a seminar class on global brands
at the ESCP-EAP European School of
Management's Paris campus. The seminar
was co-taught by an NC State professor
and an ESCP-EAP professor specializing
in Mediterranean behavior and culture.
The remainder of the
program was offered at the Institut
d’Administration des Entreprises
(IAE) in Aix-en-Provence, where students
participated in three days of joint
seminars and case discussions with
IAE MBA students, co-taught by an
NC State professor with an IAE professor
specializing in global leadership
styles.
The week-long program
week culminated with the kick-off
of NegoSim, an international business
strategy simulation featuring cross-national
teams. The simulation was completed
virtually in the two weeks following
Spring, Break, at the students' home
colleges. The simulation represents
realistic business operations, providing
students the opportunity to see the
results of their negotiations and
other efforts to improve the virtual
company’s performance.
MBAs also choose from
three additional global-focus courses
taught at NC State:
BUS
526: International Finance
This course focuses on theory and
practice of financial management in
the international arena.
BUS
590G Managing Global Decisions
This course focuses on the risks associated
with organizational challenges and
strategic opportunities that multinational
corporations face as they seek to
establish productive relationships
with international partners and maximize
value creation. This class will emphasize
the world of strategic decision making
where decisions must be made although
empirical data is limited and technological
and environmental conditions are uncertain.
ECG
590 The Global Economy
The course examines the interplay
of forces popularly called 'globalization.'
Beneath the sound bite are the key
economic linkages and interactions
that propel any change—local,
national, or global—through the
system and through our lives. Particular
attention is given to building a coherent
and integrated framework for examining
the role of global events and policies
on the tradeoffs and risks that define
our menu of economic options.
Semester
Abroad
A growing number of full-time MBA students
are participating in semester-long exchange
programs available during the fall semester
of their second year. This academic
program is managed by the university’s Study
Abroad Office. MBAs may contact Jennifer
Arthur, assistant director of the
MBA program, for details. Following
are the MBA program’s partner universities.
Vienna
University of Economics and Business
Administration, Austria
The Vienna University of Economics
and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsuniversität
Wien - WU) offers a wide range of
courses in English to students with
little or no knowledge of German.
Copenhagen
Business School (CBS), Denmark
The Copenhagen Business School is
both Denmark's most internationally
oriented institution of higher education
and the one university in Denmark
that offers the most comprehensive
range of university level degrees
in business economics and modern languages.
Every year, CBS receives approximately
1,000 exchange students from about
280 partner universities and sends
out a slightly smaller number of CBS
students.
Catholic
University of Lille (IESEG), France
IÉSEG operates exchanges with more than 80 other universities all over the world. Most of the programs are delivered in English. MBAs would most likely enroll in courses through its International Management Programme, which consists of a series of elective courses offered on an intensive basis (one course a week) in the second semester. In 2004, 35 IMPs were offered on a wide range of topics, from applied mathematical modelling to marketing, operations and culturally aware international management.
Summer
Programs
Students may participate
in an international summer program to
fulfill their global elective requirement.
In some cases, an additional 3 credit
hour elective may be earned, in addition
to the global elective. The college’s
current international partner schools
follow. Additional information is available
online at: http://www.mgt.ncsu.edu/mba/program_res/intlprog.html
Partner Schools
EDHEC Business School, Lille, France
European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel,
Germany
Graduate Business Course in Madrid,
Spain, offered by the John Cook School
of Business, Saint Louis University
CBS Summer University [graduate and
undergraduate], Denmark
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