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Go Global with the One-Week Overseas Business Study Mission

  By hmteam • November 16, 2015

When you choose the Nanyang Fellows MBA programme, you are in for a memorable journey that will take you to new places metaphorically and literally. While your professors and classmates teach you things that will help you succeed in the business world, the curriculum goes a step further with its one week long overseas business study mission component. This carefully planned programme aims to enrich your knowledge of global developments while you work on your dissertation. Instead of sitting in your classroom in Singapore and just reading or hearing about how things run abroad, you get to experience it yourself.

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Locations

In the past, candidates have attended business study missions in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, London, Toronto, Shenzhen, Tokyo, Athens, Brussels, Cambridge, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Sydney, Berlin, Bangalore, Dublin, Munich and Copenhagen. Every location has unique characteristics that can contribute to your research and lead to an in-depth dissertation based on life changing experiences. You’ll end up choosing the location that matches your selected topic best.

The Project

The business study mission gives you the opportunity to conduct a detailed case study in a country that will probably be completely new to you. Once you reach your destination, you will be studying a specific geographical area to recognise the nature of its business environment. You will also be studying a particular industry and organisation. Although independent research will be your primary activity, you will not have to worry about finding the right connections thanks to NBS’s extensive network with B-schools and companies across the globe. Combined with your own effort and the network’s resources, you’ll find yourself talking a lot with consumers/suppliers and managers. At the end of your one week, you present a final report to the company that gave you so much time and attention so that you could know so much more.

The Benefits

One week could seem too short to some of you, but the length of the programme has usually encouraged students to cram in as much as possible into those precious days. So be prepared to learn about the business and industry of whichever segment you are researching, in another country. You’ll develop better critical thinking skills as you’re thrown into a new space outside the safety of a classroom. You will also be exposed to a new culture and learn about how people behave, talk and work in it. For instance, a student in the past learned that even though Aussies were laidback people who enjoyed their lunch break and rugby games, they didn’t waste a minute during office hours and therefore never had to whine about working overtime. Insights like this supplement your business knowledge, adding to your overall growth as a future leader.

So the overseas business study mission is not just about spending time in an office. It is about immersing yourself in cultural, social, political and business dynamics that are a part of the larger regional or international stage for different players in the marketplace.

Get the Edge with the Nanyang Fellows MBA Programme

  By hmteam • November 3, 2015 ,

When you’re a seasoned professional looking for the right MBA programme for yourself, you also seek new skills and techniques that will let you handle more responsibilities and critical analysis at work. You aim for even better communication skills and a growth in strategic thinking. Are you focusing on leading more people with your vision? Or are you an entrepreneur looking for some nurturing? No matter the results you want, the Nanyang Fellows MBA Programme will enable you to get there.

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Here’s why:

The Sum of Experience

When you are in an MBA programme where the minimum years of experience of candidates is 8 years, you know that you’ll be bombarded with fresh insights, knowledge and concepts from all over the business globe. Being surrounded by peers from a wide range of career backgrounds is always a plus because you never know what you’ll end up learning. Since you’ll have similar goals, your combined experience can bring a lot to the table. Maybe you’ve never had a long conversation with somebody from the American biomedical engineering industry? Or maybe you had no idea how people in India react to condom ads? Get ready to know a lot more.

International Exposure

The Nanyang Business School is known for its world-class faculty members. The Fellows start their journey in Singapore and progress to the United States to attend courses at top B-schools like Wharton, Georgetown University and University of California at Berkeley. Take this opportunity to soak in practical knowledge and a conceptual foundation of business models that make the best of East and West industry practices. Immerse yourself and understand how business is conducted in a global setting. At the end, you also get a certificate from the American university that you attend.

New Leadership Skills

A good leader needs to be good with people. In order to do that, you need to know what drives people as individuals, as a society and in the environment in question. The Nanyang Fellows MBA Programme makes sure that you learn or improve every hard skill and soft skill required to succeed. That’s accomplished by the hands on, expert faculty at NBS along with the other emerging leaders whom you’ll be sharing your education space with. For example, if you lacked an organisational skill that affected your work in the past, you’ll certainly deal with it here.

An Evolving Thought Process

Fellows from the past years have credited the programme for helping them develop a broader analytical framework and critical thinking that lead them to solve fundamental issues that had been lying untouched. Learning and reflection are priority here. Your curriculum will be supplemented with lots of research, thanks to the school’s reputed research centres. That means that you’ll have access to cutting edge information that can contribute towards your knowledge bank.

In fact, major international publications including The Economist and the Financial Times continue to highly rate the B-school’s academic quality. With networking being the need of the hour, this is one place where you can invest and gain. The eclectic mix of Nanyang Fellows MBA will stand by you whether you need life-long friends, business partners, mentors or powerful role models.