Inside Harvard Business School’s Global Field Courses

Boston, MA: “Kate Mitkevicius has just arrived in Mumbai after an 18-hour journey from Boston. It’s midnight, and in 10 hours she’ll head out to tour four companies’ headquarters before flying to Bangalore that evening. That’s where she and Professor Vikram Gandhi will visit two more organizations and fly to a more remote area in the afternoon, returning to Bangalore the next morning for more site visits. Four flights in as many days may be dizzying for anyone, but for Mitkevicius it’s all part of the job.

Mitkevicius is part of the Harvard Business School team that organizes and oversees field courses for MBA students: the MBA Program Global Experience Office, or GEO. Their 17 staff members support the travel logistics, program delivery, and communications for three field-based courses in the MBA Program: the FIELD Global Capstone in May of the first year Required Curriculum (RC), the second year Elective Curriculum (EC) Immersive Field Courses (IFCs) in the fall and January term, and the Extended Field Courses (without a travel component) offered in the fall and spring terms in the EC year.

While some aspects of higher education have a slower pace in the summer, planning for the upcoming academic year does not. At GEO, the communications team is managing feedback data and updates to various websites, the operations team is assessing potential locations and travel-related information across the organization, and the IFC team is heading out for domestic and international assessment visits to source the content for the courses.

IFCs are an elective opportunity for second year MBA students to put their classroom skills into practice. The highly popular courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections, with locations around the world. Classes meet several times on campus throughout the fall and culminate in a six- to 14-day immersion during January term. This year’s options are Silicon Valley, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, and India.”

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Michigan Ross MBAs Share Their Summer Internship Experiences

Ann Arbor, MI: This summer, Full-Time MBA students at the Ross School of Business worked at companies across the United States in industries ranging from healthcare to consulting, gaining real-world experience to strengthen their resumes and build on their classroom learning.

To complete their Summer Business Experience, a curricular requirement for all rising second-year MBAs, the Full-Time MBA Class of 2025 has been busy tackling internships, nonprofit and start-up work, and research assistantships. Students spend six to 12 weeks working and networking with employers like McDonald’s Corp., Barclays Investment Bank, Mars Inc., and more to practice what they’ve learned in the classroom and prepare for their careers post-graduation.

In addition to internships, students also gain real-world experience in their fields of interest through Multidisciplinary Action Projects and receive ongoing support through a variety of Career Development Office resources.

To learn more about some of the internships that Full-Time MBA students took on this summer, we asked eight current MBAs to tell us about their experiences and what they learned on the job.

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DON’T MISS: MEET THE MICHIGAN ROSS MBA CLASS OF 2025

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2024 Top Music Business Schools

Billboard: “This has been a season of milestones at the colleges and universities preparing young people for careers in the music business.

At New York University (NYU), the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music marked its 20th anniversary in April — on the very day one of its most successful alums, Maggie Rogers, announced her first arena tour.

Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Recording Industry granted its first degree 50 years ago and has since graduated 7,500 “industry-ready alumni,” declares the school’s anniversary announcement. “MTSU is truly a unique place where students are nurtured, inspired and challenged,” says Beverly Keel, dean of the university’s College of Media and Entertainment.

Other schools are writing new chapters in the story of music business education, often with the support of industry benefactors.

Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business is planning a major expansion on Nashville’s Music Row with a significant donation from the Mike Curb Family Foundation. Occidental College has launched the John Branca Institute for Music with a gift from the renowned music attorney, who is an alum of the liberal arts college in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood. At Syracuse University in New York, the Bandier Program for Recording and Entertainment Industries — endowed by music publishing veteran Martin Bandier — is adding a master’s program.

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