Each year MBA students travel to explore life, business, and societies. Students listen to a female entrepreneur in Cape Town, South Africa.
Student Trips
In the mid 1980s MBA students began organizing international study trips with students paying their own way, often supported by some corporate support. Today some form of international experience is required for all MBA students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Many trips let students focus on a specific group of industries through meetings with corporate and often governmental leaders. Other trips are centered around social and environmental innovations, working alongside globally-recognized social entrepreneurs where students gain first-hand experience.
In addition, trips are sponsored by the Sloan Management Program each year for fellows in that program.
Information on Recent Trips
2007-08 Student Trips
The Effects of Ghana's Gold
A student study trip to Ghana touched both sides of a community where a gold mining operation by Newmont Mining had changed the social structure and living patterns of villagers.
India Trip Studies Health Service Providers
MBA students on a service learning trip to India visited several sustainable/profitable health organizations such as a pharmacy, a eye glasses distributor, and the Aravind Eye Hospital, all sponsored by Acumen Fund, founded by Jacqueline Novogratz, MBA ‘91.
2006 Student Trips
MBA Students Travel to Australia, China
December study trips took MBA students to Australia and major Chinese cities for a first-hand look at business and government leadership.
Brazil, New Orleans, and Myranmar for Spring 2006
Stanford MBA students learned by example from social entrepreneurs in Brazil, gutting a house in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, and experimenting with prototype water distribution systems in rural Myanmar as part of a series of service learning trips.
A View of Israel: by Prof. Myra Strober
A study trip to Israel included meetings with leaders of business, government, and Nobel Laureate Shimon Peres. It also included some moments of clear insight for the 30 MBA students. This piece was written by Myra H. Strober, Professor of Economics at the Business School, and Professor of Education in the School of Education.
2005 Student Trips
Meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Israeli elder statesman and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres and former Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and former Philippine President Corazon Aquino highlighted winter holiday 2005 study trips organized by Stanford MBA students. [Details]
2004-2005 Trips To:
Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Russia, and Singapore/Thailand
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2003-04 Trips To:
Washington, D.C.
2002-2003 Trips To:
Cuba, Japan, China, Costa Rica
2001-2002 Trips To:
Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia
2000-2001 Trips To
China, Cuba, Japan, South Africa
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