Broaden your horizons with an immersive experience

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So the

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goals and purpose of the immersions programs are multifold. The

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first is somewhat logical

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that we want to bring in in-person

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experience to an online MBA. So getting a

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group of 25 people together and

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really engaging them so that they have

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a close connection with their peers and cohorts. So

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each of our immersions have a specified topic area

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for the Ireland one as an example. Our topical

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area was designing high performance organizations.

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So we wanted to use Ireland.

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As the context or as the environment by which

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we could visit a number of high performance organizations, both

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indigenous and multinational as you

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visit different companies, whether it's Gaelic Football League Parliament

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Google, Meta you start to find commonalities

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and what makes a high-performance organization and you

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know really comes down to the people and it's also what makes Kelley

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Direct so high performance it's the people and the investment in

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those people the shared values the shared purpose the shared

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mission. It's so powerful in that comes together and you get

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everybody going towards one common goal. The Kelley Direct immersion

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program is an opportunity for students to study the

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specifics of a country's economy and history infrastructure

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and finance program

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and politics when we went to Greece we had

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the opportunity to reach and work with many different

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companies some of our Kelley Direct immersion experiences

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offer different flavors. One may be

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a cultural immersion where there's a lot of visits to different companies

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and there's an immersion version.

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Which is more client-based but there is quite a big focus and

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a focus on building relationship with one client solving

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a problem for them and delivering some outcomes

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to them. Awaka is the client

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that we're consulting for there the Olympic athletic center

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of Athens. They were the host

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of the 2004 Olympics. We hit the

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ground running we've had, you know, four or five

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days in Athens to work directly with the client being able to

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come here work together with 30 other

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MBA students and experience the

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different culture together has really enabled us

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to bond. I am 100% positive that

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we will stay in contact after this trip. This margin course

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has been invaluable and furthering my executive

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leadership skills throughout the

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last week. I took advantage of every opportunity

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I could for example yesterday's experience

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as we hiked up

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the hill to the Acropolis was unforgettable.

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So my biggest takeaways for this trip is my personal experience

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being able to network and make relationships

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and meet amazing Kelleys and non-Kelleys alike,

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you know that we've gone to businesses and met executives

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having global experience on my resume and

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just in my back pocket. Well, I think we'll really set me apart

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moving forward in the job market these high energy

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high impact experience are hugely impactful

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obviously for students, but also

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for us as faculty we get to know our students in

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a really deep manner over the course of seven or

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eight days on site we get to hang out

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with them. We get to engage with them we get to really build

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that relationship that we will

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have for the next 20 or 30 years. My expectations

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of this experience was far

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exceeding This global perspective allowed

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me to find something that has

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been so much more of a treasure now,

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I'm gonna take that with me.

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the rest of my life