Engaging Emerging Markets – Student Activities

International Study Trips

To complement classroom activities with direct, on-the-ground exposure, Ivey has operated study trips for MBA and EMBA students to emerging markets led by Ivey faculty for many years. The most frequently visited emerging countries have been in Asia (especially China and India), Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

The Ivey HBA and MSc programs also offer every student the opportunity for international experience. There are study trips to Israel, India and China; and students can gain international experience by going on exchange to one of a number of universities around the world. "In an increasingly global economy there is a need for business leaders with a global perspective," said Professor David Sharp.

Click to listen to a 5-minute interview
with David Sharp on HBA international opportunities

We do not currently offer study trips for individuals not enrolled in Ivey programs.

LEADER Project

The LEADER Project is a student run initiative to help develop management skills in emerging markets. Established in 1991, volunteer instructors taught basic skills of finance and accounting, marketing and general management to selected officials and hopeful entrepreneurs at various institutions in Moscow and Leningrad. LEADER has expanded to include cities in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia. Each year LEADER sends 40+ student volunteers to 10+ cities in developing and transitioning economies around the world.

LEADER is the acronym for “Leading Education and Development in Emerging Regions”. For more details, click here

China Teaching Project (CTP)
 
CTP is a volunteer program whereby teams of MBA students from Ivey teach western business concepts via the case method to undergraduate students at Chinese partner schools. The program originated in 1993 with our first partner school, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
 
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PhD Global Teaching Project (GTP)

Fall 2005 marked the beginning of the Global Teaching Project, an Ivey PhD student initiative. The project started from a desire on the part of Ivey doctoral candidates to contribute to business education in emerging markets around the world, and to acquire teaching experience in the process. The project sends a number of PhD student volunteers to specified universities in emerging markets to teach business courses such as  Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Global Strategy. Teaching is via the Ivey case method.

For more details, click here