Dear IMD Colleagues:
Are you teaching IB, IM or a related course?
X-Culture is the best way to add a real international business experience to your course.
And we are accepting applications for the upcoming semester.
X-Culture is a partnership of 550+ IB professors from around the world. Not a company. We don't want to sell anything to you. Just a partnership of IB colleagues.
About 5,000 MBA and undergraduate students from 130 universities in 40 on 6 continents participate in X-Culture every semester (almost 40,000 have taken part in X-Culture so far).
We put our students in global virtual teams (GVTs).
About 7 per team, each in a different country.
The students work on real-life international business challenges presented by real companies. Real cultural differences. Real time-zones. Real clients.
No travel needed – all communication is online.
The best students are then invited to X-Culture Symposium where they meet their team members and top managers from the client company.
X-Culture just won the Wharton's 2016 Re-Imagine Education Award in the Nurturing Employability category.
WEBINAR:
If you just want to learn more, attend one of our Live Webinars where we explain in more detail how X-Culture works, who should participate, the task the students work on, our corporate partners, our data for researchers interested in publishing, and Q&A: http://x-culture.org/x-culture-project-introduction-webinar/
Divisions: Undergraduate and Master's
Dates:
- 2017-2a: Approximate dates: August 20 – October 15, 2017
Application deadline: August 10, 2017 - 2017-2b: Approximate dates: October 1 – November 25, 2017
Application deadline: September 20, 2017
More info:
How it works: www.x-culture.org
Benefits for professors: http://x-culture.org/for-instructors/
Benefits for students: http://x-culture.org/for-students/
Benefits for businesses: http://x-culture.org/for-businesses/
A recent TEDx Talk about X-Culture: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Crowdsourcing-for-business-educ
X-Culture is also an excellent research platform. We collect longitudinal multi-source multi-level multi-method data on GVTs (over 2,000 variables total). More on our ongoing research here.
APPLY HERE TO JOIN X-CULTURE
Questions, suggestions: Dr. Vas Taras, v_taras@uncg.edu, 336-854-4102