Push your boundaries by crossing borders

GLOBASE—spring break

Combine your business education with real-world international consulting experience through Global Business and Social Enterprise (GLOBASE).

GLOBASE provides several opportunities that you can’t experience at other full-time MBA programs:

• Work on a diverse team to address a complex problem and manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders including teammates, the client, your MBA leader, and faculty member.
• Travel to the business to see the day-to-day operations, perform research, and explore how culture may affect the business issue you are addressing.
• Gain marketable international experience and exposure.
• Have a lasting impact on a business and its community as you solve an actual business problem.

Summer programs

Study business topics in the locations that bring them to life. For example, where better to learn about doing business in Brazil than São Paulo?

Global programs offered over summer break attract international students from all over the world, increasing the diversity of the participants. Wherever you study, you can expect to expand your network and cultural learnings far beyond the borders of the country of your particular program.

Summer programs generally last two or three weeks and fit nicely around a summer internship, giving you a leg up going into the second year of your MBA.

Fall, Thanksgiving, and winter break programs

Spend your break abroad taking an intensive course at a partner school. Offerings change each year but range from an Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation course over Thanksgiving break to Luxury Branding over the winter break. You’ll quickly become immersed in academics and life in another part of the world.

As a bonus, these programs provide an opportunity for you to travel and learn abroad during breaks without missing programming at the Kelley School.

GLOBASE Leadership—spring break

Interested in gaining experience interviewing employees, mentoring, and/or carrying out your strategic vision combined with global business leadership?

GLOBASE leadership teams spearhead GLOBASE planning during the summer/fall on all aspects of the course: creating marketing materials, selecting participants, choosing clients, and scoping projects. As the GLOBASE program starts, leaders create project teams, coach their team through the consulting project, prepare participants for international travel, and see their vision come to life on-site.

Spring break programs

Over spring break during your second year, you can participate in a short exchange (similar to those during fall, Thanksgiving, and winter breaks) or participate in a program specifically designed for you.

The two most popular options over spring break include GLOBASE (Yes! You can participate as a second-year) and the Bayreuth Sports Marketing Capstone. The Bayreuth Sports Marketing Capstone is a seminar course that presents students with a real-world case for an actual client. You would collaborate with University of Bayreuth students on a project designed to bridge marketing theory and sports practice.

Term/semester exchanges

Immerse yourself in another culture by attending a partner school just as if you were a student there for a term or full semester. Term/semester study abroad programs range from three weeks to four months and allow you to fully experience life in another country as you develop a deep network within another part of the world. Through these longer exchange programs, students learn business from a different perspective and prepare themselves for success in our increasingly globalized world.

All programs are offered in English, but occasionally include optional language or culture courses.