Experience
At Wisconsin, you’ll experience the benefit of learning from outstanding faculty members in an $80-million facility that includes a brand-new, four-story addition specifically designed to enhance the Wisconsin MBA.
The program provides a global focus in terms of curriculum, international study trips and extensive applied projects with international components. Add the resources of a world-class university and the city of Madison— routinely ranked among the most livable and lively cities in America— and you have an experience unmatched anywhere.
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Global Focus
International trips, applied projects for international clients and a global focus integrated throughout the curriculum are hallmarks of the Wisconsin MBA.
Students from the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate attended the MIPIM conference in Cannes, France, an annual event featuring 21,000 major property developers, sellers and brokers from more than 75 countries.
International Trips
All full-time Wisconsin MBA students can gain international business experience through the Wisconsin MBA Global Business Program. In 2007, student-planned and led study tours went to Chile and Dubai, UAE. Students met with senior business executives, governmental leaders and educators. Other trips focused on specific career specializations:
- The Graaskamp Center for Real Estate sent first-year real estate students to Cannes, France, to interact with the world’s most influential property players at MIPIM, an annual global real estate conference. Second-year real estate students traveled to China to tour real estate developments and embark on a consulting project.
- Students in the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management traveled to Ireland to learn about the country’s policies that have led Ireland to become a hub of outsourced and off-shore operations for many U.S- based companies. The trip included visits to IBM, Intel, FreeFlow and Genzyme. Students met with representatives of the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland and the National Institute of Transport and Logistics.
- Students in the Center for Brand and Product Management traveled to Shanghai, Suzhou and Beijing in China. Company visits included Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, Procter & Gamble, Grainger and SC Johnson, among others.
- Students from the A.C. Nielsen Center traveled to Shanghai and Beijing, China to better understand how marketing research supports or works within international firms, how marketing research fits with other functional areas of Chinese companies and how these approaches might differ from the United States.
Students visit the Dubai Financial Market.
MBA students visit Vina Indomita vineyard in the Casablanca Valley of Chile.
Applied Projects with International Components
Wisconsin MBA students tackle applied projects with significant international components. For example:
- Students in the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management taking a course in Global Outsourcing investigated the total cost of ownership for offshore outsourcing projects at Microsoft Corporation and Mrs. Clark’s Foods.
- Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management in Life and Engineering Sciences students worked with a biotech start-up company that uses technology developed at UW-Madison to improve the efficiency of food production. Students researched the international aquaculture industry and market structure in China, Norway and Chile.
Curriculum with a Global Focus
- Global strategy is incorporated into core and career specialization coursework throughout the Wisconsin MBA curriculum.
- The “Beyond Grey Pinstripes” ranking by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute of how well MBA programs equip students with social, environmental and economic perspectives for business success in a competitive global economy ranked the Wisconsin MBA 16th among U.S. business schools and 28th in the world.
- The Wisconsin School of Business houses one of only three-dozen federally funded centers in the nation known as CIBERs-Center for International Business Education and Research. These centers infuse an international perspective on campus, businesses and universities in the Midwest.