MBA Students Travel To Argentina

On 8/6/2012

MBA Students Travel To Argentina

Global Studies students will be studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina from August 2-11 under the direction of Professors Joe Ivey and Mike Kendrick. This is the third global study trip conducted by the College of Business this year, with previous groups traveling to China and to Europe. Each trip is part of a study course designed to acquaint students with global commerce and to give them a deeper understanding of the rapidly changing business world in which they will live and work.

The Argentina trip has 26 students enrolled and is the second time in the past four years that the College of Business has based a study course in Buenos Aires.

“We selected Buenos Aires again because of its vigorous and very sophisticated international business community and because of the opportunity to visit with world class companies there as the result of personal and business relationships various members of the faculty have with companies in Argentina,” said Dean Turney Stevens.

Among businesses to be visited are: Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Bausch and Lomb, Bridgestone, the Inter-American Bank, and the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. A typical day includes class lectures at the group’s hotel in the mornings, in-depth visits to one or two businesses during the afternoon, and an evening wrap up. Each student will be graded based on class work prior to the trip, during the trip, and following the trip’s return to the States.

The College of Business is among only 15 percent of U.S. business schools to require every MBA student to have a global travel experience prior to graduation. Most schools offer such courses as optional electives but few require every student to demonstrate competence in global commerce prior to completion of the graduate degree program. At Lipscomb, the entire cost of the trip is also included in tuition. Students presently have three trips annually from which to choose and this is expected to be increased with new trips being added over the next year or two.