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Broaden your horizons with an immersive experience

Choose an optional elective to participate in a Kelley Direct immersive experience or online course and put yourself at the center of a client’s real-world business situation. You might devise a plan for a small business to identify new markets or consult with Fortune 500 executives on ways to rethink their pricing strategy or supply chain. Through your travels and work, you’ll gain new perspectives about business—and the world.
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Gain real-world global experience with global and domestic immersions

With Kelley Direct's global and domestic immersions, you'll combine your online learning with in-person experiences. Each term, you'll have opportunities to travel domestically or internationally to gain real-world business experience, make connections, and develop an innovative mindset to become a better decision maker.

Previous trip locations include:

  • Athens, Greece
  • Bangkok, Thailand
  • Las Vegas
  • Dublin, Ireland 
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Silicon Valley
  • Washington Campus immersion program
A group of more than 30 Kelley Direct Online MBA students gather in front of Google in Dublin, Ireland. They are holding a red banner that reads Global Immersion Ireland, Kelley School of Business Kelley Direct Program.

Kelley Direct’s global immersions: Greece and Ireland

With the Kelley Direct Online MBA's global immersion, students combine their online learning with in-person experiences. Each term, students have the option to travel internationally to study a country's business culture or consult with real clients. With each experience—including immersions in Greece and Ireland—Kelley Direct students connect with one another and faculty, creating a network to rely on throughout their careers.

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experience to an online MBA. So getting a

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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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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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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 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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as we hiked up

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the hill to the Acropolis was unforgettable.

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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

“My team and I worked to evolve the Athens Olympic legacy, studying global communications and Greek culture. We returned to the US with a genuine appreciation for Greece—its journey as a culture and its Olympic history. I am forever grateful to Kelley for making this life-changing, extraordinary opportunity a reality.”

Amy Dehmer, MBA'23Business Architect & Managing Consultant, DMI

Why take a global or domestic immersion course?

As part of a student team dealing with an unfamiliar locale and culture, a domestic or global immersion experience will accelerate development of your global executive leadership skills as you quickly adapt your business knowledge and make decisions to deliver solutions to complex challenges.

Kelley Direct domestic or global immersion experiences build skills in:

  • Innovative thinking and entrepreneurship
  • Consulting
  • Project management
  • Cultural and emotional intelligence
  • Data collection, market, and operations research

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