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Five Schools, Four Continents: OneMBA
OneMBA is the innovative executive MBA program offered by Kenan-Flagler and four top-ranked partners: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Business Admini-stration; Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo in Brazil; Tec de Monterrey's Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE-ITESM) in Mexico; and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands. The worldwide OneMBA class of almost 100 students is perhaps the most culturally diverse class of senior executives ever assembled for an executive MBA program. They form a professional network that includes executives in Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Seventeen percent are women, and many have advanced degrees, including an MD and PhDs. Averaging 11 years of work experience, they are from Fortune Global 500, midsize and startup firms in diverse industries. OneMBA capitalizes on this diversity during the rigorous, 21-month program. Susan Eisenhower, Eisenhower Institute president and CEO, and Jeffrey Bader, senior vice president of Stonebridge International LLC, spoke at the opening dinner. They are specialists in U.S. relations with Russia and China, respectively. Students explored the commonalities and differences of teamwork, leadership and ethics around the world. Representatives from Inter Cultural Management Associates of Paris and the Center for Creative Leadership coached them on virtual teaming, skills for global leadership and managing across distance and cultures. Institute for Global Ethics President Rushworth M. Kidder helped them grapple with global ethics. Tying together the lessons was a case study of CEMEX and an address by CEMEX Executive Vice President of Planning and Finance Hector Medina. The OneMBA executives returned to their home business schools to study a unified core curriculum jointly designed and taught by faculty from all five schools. (Thirty executives from 13 states and three countries are attending Kenan-Flagler's 13 weekend sessions outside Washington, D.C., and four Chapel Hill sessions.) The worldwide class continues to work together via distance learning and virtual teams. They will meet again in March, when they reunite in Europe to study best practices in developing and developed countries, followed by studies in Asia, Mexico and Chapel Hill. For information: www.onemba.org. |
group of diverse and talented executives traveled from around the globe to meet as OneMBA classmates in Washington, D.C., in September. The inaugural class learned about global business issues as they laid the foundation for an alumni network that spans five business schools and four continents.
