{"id":14621,"date":"2011-11-03T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T17:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=14621"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:31:33","slug":"international-travel-rounds-out-imba-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/11\/international-travel-rounds-out-imba-program\/","title":{"rendered":"International travel rounds out IMBA program."},"content":{"rendered":"

For the final quarter of their 12 months of study in the International MBA<\/a> (IMBA) program in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), many students choose the \u201cstudy abroad\u201d option for earning the last three credits.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis opportunity was one of the main reasons I was attracted to FIU\u2019s program,\u201d said Ryan Harvey, one of 18 IMBA students who participated in international study this past summer.<\/p>\n

Participants reported such enriching experiences as conversing with locals on an 11-hour train ride through China, enjoying starfish and other interesting cuisine, touring international companies and exploring the host country\u2019s culture while taking classes at an FIU partner university.<\/p>\n

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Latika Sharma at the Eiffel Tower in Paris with EDHEC program coordinators. She noted that \u201cthe heterogeneity among European countries makes it imperative for anyone doing business in the continent to understand subtleties in the cultural differences.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAn intriguing part of one class was learning how different grocery store chains are tailored to certain economical classes within Spain—and then actually visiting those stores,\u201d said Christopher Freeman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president and CEO of Mane, a worldwide leader in fragrance, gave us a tour of the factory,\u201d said Latika Sharma, who studied at EDHEC Business School in France. Her class also visited IBM Forum La Gude and Moet & Chandon, a prominent champagne house.<\/p>\n

In China, Tatiana Kasimtseva learned about the economy, ecological issues, currency trading, entrepreneurship, advertising and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis trip made my MBA degree truly international and complete,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Meeting people of other nations is a strong appeal of international study.<\/p>\n

\u201cChinese residents would frequently wait patiently while I struggled to speak Chinese,\u201d said Jared Leichner, describing his two months studying at Qingdao University.<\/p>\n

Benefits are on-going.<\/em><\/p>\n

As she proceeds to earn her PhD in management, Brittany Mercado said her international study was quite valuable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful to have gained more insight into the process of building successful cross-cultural teams,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudying abroad is a wonderful r\u00e9sum\u00e9-enhancer,\u201d said Anita Sambor, program coordinator, International Graduate Programs in the Chapman Graduate School of Business, who reports that about 20 percent of the IMBA students study abroad, including those who receive scholarships. \u201cPlus, these opportunities create international connections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe beauty of the French Riviera provided the perfect location for a European study abroad, being at the crossroads of several diverse cultures,\u201d said Jeffrey Rubenstein, who studied at EDHEC Business School in Nice\/Lille France.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI made friends for life with people from Armenia, Australia, Canada, China, Korea and Poland,\u201d said Jeffrey Rubenstein.<\/p>\n

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For the final quarter of their 12 months of study in the International MBA (IMBA) program in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), many students choose the \u201cstudy abroad\u201d option for earning the last three credits. \u201cThis opportunity was one of the main reasons I was attracted to FIU\u2019s program,\u201d said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[139,275,388,427,1151,1165,1245,1272,2342,2508,2542],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29361,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions\/29361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}