IESE survey  
                                                           
   
 
Globalization of Business Education
 

Please answer all the questions to the best of your ability. Responses will be treated with outmost confidentiality and will be presented in an aggregated format.

Thank-you for your participation and in return we will make the results available to you in due course

Please select your position:   Dean Academics Publication/Press  Others

 

I: How well are we doing?

1.   

In regards to internationalizing the business curriculum, how well are business schools doing in the following areas?       

 In total                                                    In total Disagreement                                     Agreement

   1          2          3         4          5

a.

Understand the importance of an international business curriculum

b.

Serious enough about internationalization that they include this dimension in their mission statements

c.

Have a clear idea on the objectives and program for incorporating international aspects into the curriculum

d.

Have a good selection of international courses to meet the needs of both students and international corporations

e.

Have been successful in hiring sufficient faculty with international business expertise

f.

Have been successful in recruiting sufficient international and national students who are interested in pursuing international careers

g.

Have been conscientious about working with international corporations to take into consideration their needs for new MBA hires

h.

Utilizing courses and methods to successfully deliver key material on international business/management

i.

Utilizing innovations from executive education for MBA courses

j.

Have found an institutional solution to chair, develop and fund their international efforts

k.

Are producing graduates who much more prepared to work anywhere in the world compared to 5 years ago

l.

Have received favourable feedback from international companies and corporations on MBA hires

m.

Have received favourable feedback from international companies and corporations concerning academia’s response to their international needs.

                

2.       

How well do international courses in your school/in general produce students who possess the following knowledge, skills and attitudes:

Not at all                                         Very Much so

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a.

Knowledge

Developing functional and business-specific international knowledge

b.

Understanding how the international competitor thinks

c.

Ethical and moral standards

 

d.

Skills

Cross cultural communication and negotiation skill

e.

Leadership skills

f.

Running a meeting and giving a presentation in a foreign language

g.

Managing multi cultural teams (on-site and virtual)

h.

Working with complexity, uncertainty, chaos

 

i.

Attitudes

Cross cultural savvy and sensitivity

j.

Adaptability and patience

k.

Other(please state):

II: What should we be doing in terms of courses and faculty?

3.      Please select your preferred method of introducing international studies into the business school curriculum.

Insertion – stand alone international course that could be a general/survey international business course, a specialized functional international course or a internationally oriented non-business course such as world geography, world politics or comparative economic systems, etc.

Infusion – insertion of international competencies into functional courses/existing business courses (to what degree?)

Inclusion - Including an international module in functional courses (to what degree?)

What are your reasons for selecting your preferred approach over the other two?

 

4.  

In addition, what other teaching/learning techniques do you think should be pursued by business schools? Please rate the importance/relevance of the following:

Not very relevant                          Very Relevant

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a.

Activity based learning – international trips

b.

Working with students in MBA programs in other countries on a joint project

c.

International projects that require locating information and reading foreign/international journals, newspapers, etc.

d.

International exchange program

e.

International talks and seminars

f.

Improving networking with the international business community

g.

Other:

5.      Please note down below 5-10 subjects that every MBA student pursuing an international career should be proficient in.  

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6.

Please rate from the following your choice on increasing faculty participation in teaching and research in international business:

Not very Important                    Very Important

    1          2          3         4          5

a.

Hiring of new faculty with international expertise

b.

Utilizing visiting faculty with international expertise

c.

Faculty Exchange Programs

d.

Enhanced training of existing faculty through arrangements by your institution

e.

Enhanced international training of existing faculty through their own efforts

f.

Alliances with institutions throughout the world

g.

Other:

            

7.       

Please rate the viability of making available the following incentives and its effectiveness:

Not very viable                                  Very viable

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a.

Teaching load reduction

b.

Financial compensation

c.

Research/Travel funds

d.

Favourable promotion

e.

Tenure consideration

f.

Funds for attending international conferences, etc.

g.

Other:

 

8.       

How would you assign faculty with international expertise?

Please select one option

  

a

International Business Department

b

Functional department (Field) with recognition as an “international specialist,”

c

Functional department (Field) with no recognition as an “international specialist,”

d

Functional department and international Business Department or center (Matrix)

e

Other:

 

9.      We appreciate any additional comments that you may have or that you believe we have left out in this survey or in the program for the colloquium.
Thank you very much, your answers are of great value for us
For any question regarding the survey please contact:
 Beulah D'Souza bdsouza@iese.edu

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