GLOBE
GLOBE – Global Learning Opportunities in Business Education
A pioneering international undergraduate business education - and much more!
GLOBE brings together talented students from Asia, North America and Europe exposing them to unique international business challenges and opportunities. Apart from high academic standards, the students develop their global mindset, learn how to cope with different cultures and create life-long friendships.
The talent- and exchange programme is collaboration between Copenhagen Business School, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, CUHK, and Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, UNC, offering a unique, global business curriculum to prepare undergraduate students for a future career as global managers.
Each partner university selects 18 promising students forming the diverse and ambitious GLOBE team of 54 students from three different continents. The students spend three semesters traveling and studying together at all three universities, thus acting both as hosts and visitors. The programme begins in the second year of the International Business programme at UNC, Chapell Hill, North Carolina (autumn semester), moving on to CUHK, Hong Kong in the spring semester and on to CBS in the next autumn semester. Afterward, students return to their own universities.
The students gain unique cultural insights and academic experience by studying and living in three different continents, where each school offers classes that reflect upon relevant business aspects in its continent:
- UNC: Entrepreneurial ventures and dynamic startup environment
- CUHK: Asian business, finance and Chinese marketing
- CBS: Financial institutions and corporate integration with the EU
GLOBE students are globetrotting across the world
The GLOBE programme offers two study trips at each continent to create the best international and real-life learning experiences for the team. The destinations vary every year but the purpose remains: to expose the students to governmental, corporate and cultural aspects of each continent while tying the group closer together across the universities.
While at CBS, the GLOBE teams have visited places like Berlin, London, Strasbourg and Brussels to show them what they read about in class. Ashley Colette Groves, a GLOBE II student from UNC, shared her thoughts on the study trip to Brussels and Strasbourg: “The study trips really showed us, how individual companies were dealing with integration policies. Visiting companies let us see, what we read in the book in real life. I really liked Brussels, because it was a truly international city and the heart of most European legislation.”
During the semester at CUHK, GLOBE teams have traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Tokyo, Indonesia and Singapore, where the students are exposed to Asian culture and -business conduct. From corporate visits at large banks to cultural sights at local temples to having cocktails on the 80th floor of a rooftop bar – the GLOBE team truly inhales the business life of Asia.
At UNC the GLOBE teams have explored Washington DC, New York City, Charlotte and the Raleigh Underground. There is an emphasis on the entrepreneurial spirit and liberal mentality of the American business life. The students get to interact with influential business managers as well as entrepreneurial undergrads when taking in the American experience.