ISSUE TWO • June 2017
Durham – a Truly International Business School Students experience international business Students visit San Francisco (top), and Barcelona (below), for their MBA Global Business Experience. Barcelona image © Matthew Holmes, MBA Durham University.
In April over 210 of the School's MBA and Masters students travelled overseas as part of their programmes to gain vital international business knowledge and for practical experience.
For their Global Business Experience, 54 full-time MBA students travelled to Germany (Mannheim), Spain (Barcelona) or China (Beijing), while San Francisco was the destination for 22 EBS-Durham EMBA and Online MBA students. They visited leading international companies where they tested and examined academic business approaches in the companies and gained an appreciation of the complex nature of the different dimensions of business. This helps them to appreciate the challenges of global business and also gives them the opportunity to apply new skills into practice. The San Francisco trip was particularly busy with lectures, workshops, coaching sessions, company visits, tutorial sessions, interactive group work and a certificate awards ceremony. Live lectures were hosted with initial investors
of Google, PayPal, and OpenTable; one of the key developers of the Kindle; and the founder of The North Face. The week culminated in the students presenting a business pitch to leading academics and corporate experts.
STUDENT FEEDBACK “This experience truly consolidates the Durham MBA in the sense you are left with greater understanding of how it all fits together. An amazing experience, and one of the highlights of my Durham MBA.” Jonas Jorgensen, Full-time MBA. “The trip to Mannheim, its business school, companies and city was an enriching experience. In particular, I enjoyed very much the lectures that were provided on current challenges on EU economic and monetary integration and on international management with a German perspective. The visit to Frankfurt and the Stock Exchange was also very exciting- highly recommended experience!” Roberto Lopez, Full-time MBA. Our Masters students visited either Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich) or Germany (Frankfurt and Mannheim) for their international study experience, where they took part in cultural tours, company visits and lectures. Our strong international connections and activities provide an inside perspective of global business for our
