A highlight of the Georgetown MBA Program is the Globalization Residency.  As part of the core curriculum all students participate in this unique immersion in international business practice. The program consists of two components: on-campus classes followed by a one week foreign residency in one of several locations abroad.
The course focuses on consulting projects conducted by five-person MBA teams with organizations located at the site of the foreign residency. The projects are applied and practical. Students face issues of immediate concern to companies abroad, and then they present their recommendations to top managers at their place of business.

On-campus classes consist of a series of lectures and case studies about the country's economy, business system, polity, and culture that include readings and written or oral graded work, and supervision of team projects by faculty members with weekly meetings and deliverables.

The foreign residency consists of a week of activities in the country of the residency, including speakers from local business and government, joint sessions with local business school faculty and students; a factory visit including live case study with a top management briefing; a corporate responsibility or community service event; cultural events about the distinctive arts, sciences, customs, history, or civilization of the country and its people; team-by-team fieldwork in support of the team's consulting project; and the highlighted client visit and project presentation by each team at its client organization.

The course is not a study tour. You will study one country, go to one city, and work with one client organization. The foreign residency happens the week preceding Spring Break, which allows students to travel after the residency in that country or region if they choose.

The outcomes of the Globalization Residency are designed to increase students' ability to conduct international business with comfort and confidence in a foreign culture and to improve their ability to do a job wherever it needs to be done; to improve problem-solving ability, analytical ability, and communication skills; and to achieve an integration of knowledge learned during the MBA program.

If your company has participated in the Globalization Residency and would like to recruit Georgetown MBAs, please contact Employer Relations at Employer-Relations@msb.edu.