Discover how the Global Business and Social Enterprise (GLOBASE) program prepares Kelley MBA students to become global leaders.
Follow the GLOBASE China consulting project
In this video series, Kelley MBA students participate in the GLOBASE consulting project in China. Watch to learn how the GLOBASE China experience transforms the students’ understanding of international business, corporate social responsibility, and mindful leadership.
Global business
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GLOBASE CHINA: Global Business
Joe Fitter, MBA Finance Lecturer, Faculty Advisor:
GLOBASE as a total experience is important because it teaches students about the construct of business beyond the borders of the United States. Specifically, GLOBASE China is unique because we're entering and working in the second largest economy in the world, a very important economy, and one that is rising very quickly.
Jamar Harrison, Full-Time MBA student:
We live in a day and age where you have to be globally focused in everything you do. It's so important to learn how you connect with people everywhere. You have to be able to reach a wider audience, and I think Kelley gives us a great opportunity to do that.
Adeola Kamson, Full-Time MBA student:
It's a great way for students to really get a foot into the door of these global companies and to actually see it from the beginnings of their professional development. And it's just really important that Kelley does this because, being such a great program, we're going to have world leaders who are going to step into leadership roles and eventually lead these global companies. And when you don't have the context, the actual experience, it's not going to be something that you can pass along very well.
Aaron Welker, Full-Time MBA student:
When you go into the classroom, you can study global business, you can take classes on anything, you can major in it. But there's a very, very big difference between learning it in a classroom context and then actually experiencing it. People all over the world are so similar in many things as far as their needs and their wants and desires and so forth, but they're different in how that's expressed. And it's hard to really capture that in an all-inclusive kind of way in the classroom. But to really just spend some time over there and to actually experience it is really how you learn it.
Social impact
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GLOBASE China: Social Impact
Stephen Schenk, Full-Time MBA student:
There's a balance between those core business drives that every business has and social responsibility in GLOBASE. That's one of the big things I learned, is how to balance those two drives when you're working on a consulting engagement.
Bekah Volinsky, Full-Time MBA student:
Businesses should care about social responsibility because it's to their benefit to think about externalities. GLOBASE China taught me about the very different sorts of business environments that exist in the world. Really illuminated the possibilities for how government bodies as well as for-profit enterprises can reprioritize and work together for social responsibility.
Joe Fitter, MBA Finance Lecturer, Faculty Advisor:
I think anytime you're a person who is operating in a different country, a country that's not native to your own, you observe lots of opportunities and lots of challenges. And I think that GLOBASE is unique in that it teaches social responsibility because many of these emerging businesses are only in the early stages of development. They're still worried about the very basics and haven't moved on to some of the more advanced business activities.
Jamar Harrison, Full-Time MBA student:
GLOBASE gives you a great opportunity to practice being socially responsible. It allows you to walk that tightrope between delivering business solutions that are viable, that work, while also thinking about culture, thinking about how it impacts the local community. And GLOBASE really gives you the opportunity to not only learn it beforehand, but when you get to China to use that and to see it upfront. I think it's very important. It kind of drives the lesson, social responsibility is every much part of a business as the bottom line.
Mindful leadership
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GLOBASE China: Mindful LeadershipAlex Ivanov, Full-Time MBA student:
GLOBASE China helped me be more mindful leader, that I was able to connect the dots of academic research on mindful leadership and understand what mindful leadership means.
Rebecca Cook, Director of the MBA Program, Staff Advisor:
It's an opportunity for the students to showcase what they can bring to the table. How can I lead by example, how can I create a situation where people are comfortable, where they can give feedback, but then we all can grow individually?
Queenie Wu, Full-Time MBA student:
In a real world, you are working with different people from a diverse background. As a GLOBASE leader, I learned a lot of tactics that I can apply in the future in my job. It's a great opportunity to be engaged and also take the ownership as a leader.
Rebecca Cook:
It really is an opportunity for students to work with ambiguity and to try new things and to fail and know that that's okay.
David Hanger, Full-Time MBA student:
In business, things are happening all the time at very high speeds, but what's important is that you should take a step back every once in a while and think about the purpose. Think about why you're doing something and who you are in those moments and when you're making important decisions, as well as how you can make an impact in bigger communities as well as small ones.