School of Business

Business School's international program teaches some real life business experiences

MBA students put their international studies into practice in Germany this spring with the GRIP program, encountering some real-life challenges on the way. GRIP, Global Research Integrative Projects, is an eight-week course, offered by the School of Business for the first time last Spring. Originally planning to visit Taiwan, the eight students and their instructors had a typical business experience of changing plans at the last minute and redirecting their attention to Germany, as the SARS epidemic spread to Taiwan.

In the eight-week GRIP course, students do research at KU on a particular industry and country. Then they travel overseas to meet directly with industry executives and experts on business in the country. This semester, students met with executives and toured several plants such as automobile manufacturers DaimlerChyrlser and Bosch. They visited a Mercedes-Benz assembly line and toured a 6D virtual design lab and a virtual driving lab. Read more.

MBA students assist Kansas companies in overseas marketing

School of Business MBA students have been doing research that's assisting Kansas businesses in their decisions about marketing overseas.
As part of the outreach portion of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) program, students work with local businesses on specific international business issues, including, for example, marketing. Waffle-Crete International, Inc., in Hays, has made inroads into the China market with their pre-cast concrete building systems, thanks in part to the research of a CIBER team. Read more.

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