Global Experience

About 30 percent of Kellogg MBA students are citizens of countries other than the United States, and more than 50 percent of the American students have lived or worked abroad at least three months. Kellogg faculty members have broad international experience: about one-quarter are foreign-born and educated, and many others have studied or taught at universities outside the U.S. The International Business major is one of the school’s most popular, and Kellogg sponsors exchange programs with 18 management schools around the world. These all add up to an internationally diverse perspective to your Kellogg experience.

At Kellogg, an international perspective is integral to a well-rounded management education. As of June 2008, Full-Time MBA students must meet a one-credit global elective requirement through a course such as Cross-Cultural Negotiation, International Finance, International Marketing, International Business Strategy, or Global Initiatives in Management, or through approved study-abroad programs. This requirement ensures that students are exposed to a formal framework for addressing international business and management issues or are exposed directly to a foreign management culture through approved courses or exchange programs.

The Kellogg school offers many options for studying global business:

• International Business major
  The Kellogg International Business major provides students with specialized tools in finance, marketing, organizations, and management strategy to help them understand the international dimensions of business. The major supplies U.S.-based and international students with frameworks that can be applied across different countries and cultures. Learn more about International Business course offerings.
• Global Initiatives in Management
  For many students, one of the highlights of the Kellogg School experience is participation in our distinctive Global Initiatives in Management (GIM) program. Through this student-led program, under the guidance of a faculty adviser, you will learn about global business environments within a flexible framework that combines ten weeks of traditional classroom learning with an intensive two-week field research project conducted in the chosen region. While abroad, students meet with high-level government officials and business executives to complete the research needed for their final projects. Past projects have included the privatization of banking in Central Europe, emerging market strategies for the telecommunications sector in China and a possible Olympic bid by South Africa. In 2007 almost 500 students took part in GIM conducting research in China and Korea, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South America, Southern Africa, Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
• International Business Conferences
  International business conferences are held at the Kellogg School throughout the year featuring prominent guest speakers as well as global and regional panel discussions that explore the challenges and opportunities of doing business all over the world. The conferences map out critical issues within Asia, India, Europe and Latin America, and they seek to provide a navigator's view of how various industries are charting their course to compete more effectively in the global marketplace. These conferences attract foreign executives and government officials, U.S. executives with business overseas, alumni, and students to Kellogg to discuss topical issues of commerce and development.
• Other international opportunities
  Clubs
  Many of the Kellogg School's student-run clubs have an international focus, such as the African Business Association, the Asian Management Association, the Australian Club, the Canadian Club, the Chinese Business Club, the European Business Club, the French-speaking Club, the Hispanic Business Student Association, the Indian Business Club and the Latin American, Hispanic and Iberian Management Association.
  Global speakers and visitors
  • The Kellogg School’s worldwide network of alumni and corporate contacts gives students the opportunity to learn from and interact with a variety of global leaders. Notable guests to the school have included:
    • Nandan Nilekani, CEO, president and managing director Infosys
    • Alvaro Diez de Medina, Uruguayan ambassador to the US
    • Yoram Dinstein, president of Tel Aviv University
    • Ion Dianconescu, president of the Romanian parliament
    • Asda Jayanama, Thailand’s ambassador to the United Nations
    • Peter Augustsson, CEO of SKF Group in Sweden
    • Yongji Duan, CEO of Stone Group Co. in China
    • Omar Carneiro, president of AT&T Brazil
    • Leticia Costa, vice president for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. – Brazil
  • Alliances
    International alliances are also a means of sharing knowledge about business education and international business, and promoting cooperation between business schools and their faculties.
    The Kellogg School maintains active alliances with:
    • Guanghua School of Management in China
    • Indian School of Business
    • Sasin Graduate School of Business Administration in Thailand
    • Keio Business School at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan
    • Solvay Business School at the University of Brussels in Belgium
  • Student Exchange programs
    Student exchange programs provide a chance to study best business practices in other parts of the world, as well as cultural and language immersion. Students may choose to participate in the Kellogg School’s student exchange programs in one of 17 countries. Students spend one quarter — usually the first quarter of the second year — studying at one of these institutions. Applications are accepted in January of the first year of study.
    
    Exchance Program Locations
    • Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney
    • Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration
    • Ecole Supérieur des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, Cergy-Pontoise, France
    • Guanghua School of Management, Beijing
    • Hautes Etudes Commerciales Institut Supérieur des Affaires, Jouy-en-Josas, France
    • IESE, Barcelona, Spain
    • Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
    • KEIO, Japan
    • Leon Recanati Graduate School of Management at Tel Aviv University, Israel
    • London Business School
    • Norwegian School of Economics and Business, Bergen, Norway
    • Pontifi cia, Chile
    • Rotterdam Graduate School of Management
    • Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Bangkok
    • School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • SDA Bocconi, Milan
    • St. Gallen, Switzerland
    • WHU-Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, Vallendar, Germany