Stanford Business

MAY 2007


Global Approach to Learning

Opportunities for Business School students to broaden their understanding of the global context of business have been greatly expanded in recent years. Each MBA student entering the program from this fall forward will be required to have a significant international experience related to the topic of management through an internship or another structured learning experience in a country new to him or her. Staff and students from the Global Management Program, the Public Management Program, and MBA Career Management Center seek assistance from alumni/ae in identifying the best learning opportunities. Here is a sampling of activities outside the United States that took place during the past year.

Details about:
Study Trips
GMIX Program
PMP Service Learning Trips
Sloan Program Study Trips
History of Study Trips

Extracurricular Lessons


Photo provided by student

Second-year student Gavin Woody, above right, immersed himself in learning new cultural practices by joining two snake charmers outside the City Palace near the Golden Triangle in Jaipur, India. His weekdays last summer were spent as an intern for Infosys Technologies in Bangalore, India. In the summer of 2006, the Business School’s Global Management Immersion Experience placed 71 interns in 56 countries.

 

China Side Trip For Interns

Taking a weekend break from his internship at Idapted Inc. in Beijing, Juan Pardo, left, met up with Arturo Nanes, who was interning for Nicobar Group in Shanghai. The two second-year MBA students did some sightseeing in Xi’an, China, which included a stop at this temple.


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Guatemala Coffee Break


Photos by Gabriela Hasbun

MBA students on a winter break from classes assist 32 families collecting coffee cherries at Finca Santa Anita, an organic coffee and banana farming cooperative in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. In top photo from left to right, Pang Ngernsupaluck, Jenna Lawrence, and Jennifer Bolson, all first-year MBA students, set up for harvesting. The students also helped sort berries, center photo, as part of their service-learning trip. Farmer Angel Moreno, bottom photo, extracts beans from the cherries while Ben Forrest, a second-year student, sacks raw beans.

 

Riding in Japan

Darin Buxbaum, second-year MBA student, rides in an I-unit—a concept car emphasizing personal mobility—while visiting the Toyota Kaikan plant in the Aichi prefecture of Japan as part of a study trip last December. Buxbaum can move at low speeds through a crowd of people while sitting up. At higher speeds he must recline for stability.


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Driving Large In Sweden

First-year student Andrew Cantor tries driving a construction vehicle at Volvo headquarters in Göteborg, Sweden, during one of several study trips that students took during their winter break from classes.


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Suited Up in Australia

On their way to meet the chief executive of hearing implant manufacturer Cochlear, MBA students stopped by the Sydney Opera House on a predictably gorgeous January morning. Their corporate itinerary also included Macquarie Bank in Sydney.

Thai Service Learning


Photos by Peter Stember

Second-year student Sam Goldman, at right in lower photo, hands out condoms to sex workers on the street of Pattaya, Thailand. He wears a “condom jacket” provided by Mechai Viravaidya of the Population and Community Development Association, a nonprofit that has reduced the spread of HIV/AIDS in Thailand by free distribution of educational leaflets and condoms to women who work in the sex trade. First-year student Rukaiyah Adams, at right, also distributes condoms. Second-year student Paritosh Somani, lower left photo, plays with one of the children from the Baan Jing Jai orphanage near Pattaya on a visit to the Khao Kheow Open Zoo.

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