Kellogg World Alumni Magazine

BUILD OUR
GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE

Our students come from all over the world, as do our faculty. Our graduates and partners populate every region of the globe. As geographic borders become more fluid and human cultures merge and evolve, leaders of this century will be called to global citizenship. As a premier educator, we must step forward — alongside these leaders — to create and embrace our role on the world stage.

Our agenda seeks to:

  • Establish a thought leadership position in the BRIC nations through new partnerships with Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil and the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in China. We will also leverage our deep ties as one of the founding members of the Indian School of Business. In these markets, we will design educational opportunities that don't conform to past models, but meet the needs of the modern student and modern organization. We'll focus on nimbleness, relevance and applied insight as we build our reputation as the premier executive educator in key emerging markets. We'll identify new ways to build our reputation as the world's leading business school for studying the interconnections between markets, customers and growth.

  • Restructure our five executive MBA programs into a one-of-a-kind global network EMBA. We will aggressively market and brand our unique global experience that encompasses the opportunity to study on six campuses across four continents. The network will combine our partnership programs at Kellogg-HKUST (Hong Kong), Kellogg-Recanati (Tel Aviv), Kellogg-Schulich (Toronto), and Kellogg-WHU (Vallendar, Germany), as well as programs on our home campuses in Chicago and Miami. Through this unique global network, we will combine the local insights of our partner schools with the cutting-edge knowledge of our Kellogg faculty to create a very special learning forum. We are building the world's leading global EMBA classroom.

  • Catalyze our global alumni network to reignite the Kellogg spirit among us. We will equip and empower our alumni with new technology and information to build critical ties in person and virtually. In the process, we will more densely and vibrantly connect our social network. We will share information, best practices and, best of all, our shared passion for Kellogg to create the world's leading alumni community.

 

  These days, you can't do business without thinking globally. And while globalization presents great potential for growth, it can also create new and complex problems for organizations — especially in light of the fact that individuals are so interconnected now. We can no longer operate in silos. Working across teams in a cross-disciplinary fashion is key to addressing these complexities.

Richard Byrne '85,
CEO of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.