FAQs

What funds are available for research?

Each team's travel to their partner country is paid for by the GBS. In addition, a modest research budget is made available to each team for research expenses such as communications, visiting trade shows, research travel, purchasing data and reports.

 

Are students paid for their work in this course?

No. Students receive course credit.

 

When will the projects and clients be announced?

The projects and clients will be announced in mid-November -- in time for prospective students to express their preferences and qualifications for particular projects – although its faculty prerogative

 

What types of projects are likely to be available this year?

High tech projects and consumer goods projects will all be represented. Pls look at our past companies participants to get an idea.

 

How are students selected?

Each student applicant provides an application, including a resume and a cover letter explaining their interest in GBS and the strengths they would bring to a project team. Many applicants (all if the numbers of applicants permit) are interviewed by a GBS faculty and Managing Director.

 

Can students apply during their first year of their MBA program to participate in GBS during their Second year?

No.

 

Can Second Year MBA students apply for GBS?

Yes, but they need to finish all of their basic ("liba") courses first. Many students find that they would like the in-depth consulting, industry, and international teamwork experience of GBS during their Second Year.

 

What does the Selection Committee consider in assigning students to teams?

Students are selected for a particular team based on their expressed preferences and in order to ensure that each team has a good balance of functional, industry, qualitative and quantitative, client relation management, and technical expertise for the particular project. A very important characteristic for every team member is commitment to "going the extra mile" for their team and their client.

 

Is this an easy course?

No.  Student evaluations have always agreed that GBS is a challenging course. Furthermore, this is a practicum course -- which means that students have the opportunity to learn through confronting and overcoming challenges under the guidance of faculty. Students should expect challenges in framing projects, in designing their work, in relating strategic and operational and financial and marketing issues, in learning to make feasible recommendations, in marketing research, in inter-cultural communication, in working in languages and cultures with which one is not fluent. Most students are able to meet the challenges -- with the collaboration of their teammates and the support of their teaching assistants and faculty. Many students arrange their classes and activities to be relatively light during the semester when they participate in GBS;

 

Is there an inter-cultural aspect of the GBS program?

Most GBS participants find the intense cultural experience of participating in a global team in GBS to be one of the most rewarding aspects of their experience. We believe that global managers are most effective internationally when they are interested and responsible for their own learning about their own and other cultures. The GBS provides some international and inter-cultural background for students and more extensive resources for students as they explore other cultures at their own initiative. 

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