Press: BU Questrom School of Business Global Management Experience Course
Many thanks to the BU Global Programs office for including the Global Management Experience course in their Summer 2016 newsletter. Here’s a link to the article and an abstract follows below. The timing couldn’t be any more perfect since this week we’re beginning the 2017 planning process. We’re headed to Hong Kong and Shanghai for Spring Break 2017. Info Sessions will be held beginning in October.
The Global Management Experience and the BU Research, Education, Communication & Science (BU RECS) program are two examples of courses that are providing students with global perspectives through a combination of classroom learning and international experience based field study work.
Over spring break, Professor Gregory Stoller took sixteen Boston University students to Beijing and Hong Kong for a newly created course: The Global Management Experience. The four credit course involves analytical work during the first half of the spring semester on campus and culminates with a trip to Asia.
The class brought students together from a variety of backgrounds who have an interest in international entrepreneurship. Questrom, College of Arts & Sciences, and Engineering students were all represented on the trip, an aspect Greg Stoller, senior lecturer at the Questrom School of Business believes is key to a successful global experience. “I’ve always believed in the benefits of having a cross functional team, whether it’s during a standard lecture/discussion course on campus, an international consulting project, or a class like the Global Management Experience,” Stoller says.
Our Global Management Experience program provides exceptional exposure to economic activity, market trends and culture in Asia often with a focus on entrepreneurship, finance and international business. The four-credit elective course culminates with a one-week trip abroad. Pre-travel course work includes exploration of economic, governmental and social factors that affect the conduct of business in a variety of industries and contexts. The trip involves visiting business executives, government leaders and entrepreneurs, observing first-hand the application of management principles and strategies in the global arena.
