Dear IMD Colleagues:
If you would like to add a real international business consulting project to your International Business/Management/Marketing courses, the X-Culture Project might be a good choice.
Over 120,000 students from 500 universities in 110 countries have participated in X-Culture over the years.
About X-Culture:
- X-Culture is a partnership of business professors. We put our students in global virtual teams (GVTs). About 6 per team, each in a different country.
- The students work on real-life international business challenges presented by real companies. The students serve as IB consultants while also learning how to work with people from other cultures.
- No simulations. Real international virtual teams. Real clients. No travel is needed. All collaboration is virtual.
- About 6,000 MBA and undergraduate students from 70+ countries on 6 continents participate in X-Culture every semester (70,000+ have participated in X-Culture so far).
- The best students are then invited to the X-Culture Global Symposium, where they meet their team members and top managers from the client company.
- X-Culture won Wharton's Re-Imagine Education Award in the Nurturing Employability category.
- Research is a big part of X-Culture. So, if you need to publish, we can help, too.
Divisions:
- Undergraduate
- Master's
- EMBA
- NEW: Working professionals
Dates*:
- 2025-1a: January 20 – March 9, 2025
Application deadline: January 10
- 2025-1b: March 3 – April 21, 2025
Application deadline: February 25
- 2025-2a: August 25 – October 12, 2025
Application deadline: August 15
- 2025-2b: October 6 – November 30, 2025
Application deadline: September 25, 2025
*The dates are tentative and will be finalized after the participant list is ready and we have information about all participants' academic schedules. +/- up to 7 days is possible.
More info:
Dr. Vas Taras
Professor and Department Head
Vice President Administration-Elect, Academy of International Business
X-Culture Project Founder and Coordinator
Bryan School of Business and Economics
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
v_taras@uncg.edu
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Vas Taras
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro NC
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