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  • 1.  If you're teaching IB/IM this coming semester: X-Culture open call for participants

    Posted 07-02-2015 09:31

    Dear IB/IM Teachers:

     

    If you're teaching International Business, Marketing, Cross-Cultural Management, or related courses and want to add an experiential component to your course, the X-Culture is accepting applications for 2015-2 semester (August-October and October-November tracks).

     

    X-Culture is a partnership of IB professors from around the world.

    Over 3,000 MBA/EMBA/Undergraduate students from 100 universities in 40 on 6 continents participate in X-Culture in a given semester (over 20,000 took part in X-Culture so far).

     

    The students are put in Global Virtual Teams of about 7 (each from a different country) and the teams work for a semester on real-life IB challenges presented by real-life companies, thereby experiencing first-hand the challenges and learning best practices of international teamwork, as well as gaining valuable international business consulting experience.  

    The best students are then invited to X-Culture Symposium (last few hosted by Mercedes-Benz, Home Depot, Louis Vuitton).  

     

    Here is how it works: www.x-culture.org  

    Here is why you as a professor want to add it to your course: www.x-culture.org/for_instructors.html  

    X-Culture is also an excellent research platform. We collect longitudinal multi-source multi-level data on GVTs (over 2,000 variables total), so if you're interested in research on groups, we have the biggest and deepest dataset in the world.  

     

    More about X-Culture:

    BizEd:    http://www.e-digitaleditions.com/i/406930/34

    AIB Insights: http://tinyurl.com/kwumxzc

    But does it work? Evidence in AMLE: http://amle.aom.org/content/12/3/414.short

     

    The application process is competitive. We limit it to 100 instructors/universities in a given semester. Instructors teaching outside the U.S. (over-representation) and research-active academics are especially encouraged to apply.

     

    Divisions:

    - Undergraduate

    - MBA and other Master's

    - EMBA

     

    Early track tentative dates: Aug 20 - Oct 15, 2015

    Application deadline: Aug 10, 2015

    Late track tentative dates: Oct 1 - Nov 25

    Application deadline: Sep 20, 2015

     

    APPLY HERE: https://uncg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_a4CxtDdoWK5DvaQ

     

    Dr. Vas Taras

    Dean and Tracy Priddy Dean's Notable Scholar

    X-Culture Project Director

    Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management

    Department of Management

    Bryan School of Business and Economics

    University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    349 Bryan

    POB 26165, Greensboro, NC 27402-6165

    336-256-8611

    v_taras@uncg.edu 

    www.X-Culture.org

    https://www.facebook.com/XCultureProject

     

     

     



  • 2.  If you're teaching IB/IM this coming semester: X-Culture open call for participants

    Posted 12-17-2015 13:22

    Dear IB/IM Teachers:

     

    If you're teaching International Business, Marketing, Cross-Cultural Management, or related courses and want to add an experiential component to your course, the X-Culture is accepting applications for 2015 (1-Jan-Mar; 2-Mar-Apr tracks).

     

    X-Culture is a partnership of IB professors from around the world.

    Over 3,500 MBA/EMBA/Undergraduate students from 100 universities in 40 on 6 continents participate in X-Culture in a given semester (over 24,000 took part in X-Culture so far).

     

    The students are put in Global Virtual Teams of about 6 (each team member from a different country) and the teams work for a semester on real-life IB challenges presented by real-life companies, thereby experiencing first-hand the challenges and learning best practices of international teamwork, as well as gaining valuable international business consulting experience. 

    The best students are then invited to X-Culture Symposium (last few hosted by Mercedes-Benz, Home Depot, Louis Vuitton, and JCB).  

     

    Here is how it works: www.x-culture.org  

    Here is why you as a professor want to add it to your course: www.x-culture.org/for_instructors.html  

    List of international business partners/challenges: http://x-culture.org/competition-challenges/

     

    X-Culture is also an excellent research platform. We collect longitudinal multi-source multi-level data on GVTs (over 2,000 variables total), so if you're interested in research on groups, we have the biggest and deepest dataset in the world.  

     

    More about X-Culture:

    BizEd:    http://www.e-digitaleditions.com/i/406930/34

    AIB Insights: http://tinyurl.com/kwumxzc

    But does it work? Evidence in AMLE: http://amle.aom.org/content/12/3/414.short

     

    The application process is competitive. We limit it to 100 instructors/universities in a given semester. Instructors teaching outside the U.S. (over-representation) and research-active academics are especially encouraged to apply.

     

    Divisions:

    - Undergraduate

    - MBA and other Master's

    - EMBA

    - Non-student contestants

     

    Dates:

    Early track

        Tentative dates: January 20 - March 15, 2016

        Application deadline: January 10, 2015

    Late track

       Tentative dates: March 1 - April 25, 2016

       Application deadline: February 20, 2016 

     

    APPLY HERE: https://uncg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_a4CxtDdoWK5DvaQ

     

    Dr. Vas Taras