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Management consulting will continue to be a significant and popular career option, as it provides an opportunity for challenging work, continued self-development, access to important social and professional networks, traveling, and financial rewards.  In this course, you will explore the art of using expertise in a field to advise client organizations on high-level strategic issues and provide them with management counsel. Throughout the course, you will experience the opportunity to work on solving executive-level problems and simulate consulting project activities and situations by working on business cases, exercises, and a team assignment based on real-life consulting challenges.

GBI Florence: point of distinction and focus is Manufacturing and trade for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

GBI London:  point of distinction and focus is Business Finance

GBI Sydney:  point of distinction and focus is Environmental Sustainability

This course provides an overview of contemporary Japanese business practices as well as the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental circumstances that facilitate or thwart market entry by both domestic and outside entities.

If you are an engineering student, please see the ENGR XXXX course description.

The course will focus on studying modern engineering and business principles, methods, and tools, within the context of the Indian environment. The three focal areas of study are: manufacturing systems, service engineering operations, and agri-business.  A visit to India will showcase challenges and opportunities available at the corporate level and at the individual level in this rapidly growing economy. It will also focus on the societal impacts of new technologies and rapid expansion of engineering industries in India.

Plant visits and interfaces with practicing engineers/managers will allow students to appreciate the following professional characteristics: ethics, the ability to work with others, an appreciation for other disciplines, adaptability, and an appreciation for life-long learning.

Plant visits to manufacturing, engineering, and business sites will form a critical component of the class and will focus on the operational hub of the corporate entity.  Plant visits and/or panel discussion will be arranged.  Students will be expected to participate in all plants study visits for this course.  Plant study visits will include a detailed tour of the plant, a visit to the business offices, and finally discussions with a) plant executives, b) first-level supervisors, c) workers, and d) business office staff & managers.

The travel and tourism field has remained resilient despite natural disasters, political instability, pandemics, and more. This program explores the tourism industry from multiple lenses. How does tourism economically impact a city or community? What are the health-related impacts of residents and citizens? And what are the social and environmental/sustainability impacts of the industry in Puerto Rico (and how can we, as global citizens, potentially generate positive change in the field)?

This program will be based in San Juan (with excursions to surrounding areas) and include an array of cultural and professional visits.

For participation in the Plus Global Projects program for summer 2021, students will receive one academic credit. For the three week program, students will be expected to attend the daily 90 minute sessions in addition to work on the project independently outside of class time. The project, guest lectures, cultural activities, and faculty lectures will be supervised by Pitt Business faculty, School of Nursing faculty, facilitators from Pitt Business International Programs, Pitt School of Nursing, and Campus B.  

Students participating in this program will be eligible for in-person study abroad programs in future semesters.

This course will fulfill a foreign culture requirement for CBA students.

For participation in a Pitt Business International Consulting Project for spring 2021, you will recieve one academic credit. A 75 minute class session will be held weekly, and you will be expected to work on the project independently outside of class time. International projects will be supervised by Pitt Business faculty and facilitators from Pitt Business International Programs. Additional weekly meeting times will be in place for use on an as-needed basis. The course will be 12 weeks in duration, and you should expect to commit 5 hours per week to your project, including class time. You will work in small groups of 3-4 on your project. There are no tests or exams in the course, and your experience will culminate in a final presentation of your deliverables to your client at the end of the 12 weeks.
Topics covered in the course will focus on developing consulting skills. Sessions include: data gathering and discovery, developing a scope of work, client relationships and ethical partnerships, project management, and more. In addition, you will learn about intercultural dimensions of consulting from Pitt Business facilitators and our community partners.   
Students participating in this independent study will be eligible for the Global Consulting Capstone and Global Service Learning in future semesters.
This course will fulfill a foreign culture requirement for CBA students.

For Fall 2019, the following program was offered: (Applications currently closed)

South Asia – Mumbai and Cochin, India

Virtual Teams and Frugal Innovation in Global Markets

Overview: This courses introduces modern engineering and business principles, methods and tools within the context of the Indian economic environment. The three focal areas for students includes: 1) virtual teams in global service engineering & management, 2) frugal engineering and innovation, and 3) commodities and spice trade supply chains. Students will be exposed to challenges and opportunities available at the corporate level and at the individual level in this rapidly growing economy, learn about societal impacts of new technologies, and the rapid expansion of engineering industries and economies in India. The field study in India will showcase challenges and opportunities available at the corporate level and at the individual level in this global economy. It will emphasize the societal impacts of new technologies and rapid expansion of engineering industries in India within a business framework.

Career track most appropriate for: MBA, MS - Finance, Supply Chain Management, MSIE

Top three learning outcomes of this course:

• Learn how modern engineering and business principles, methods, and tools, associated with service and manufacturing systems are applied in India.
• Developed the ability to visualize service and manufacturing engineering challenges and opportunities (including logistics) within a global context.
• Understand and appreciate the need for engineering infrastructure in a rapidly growing economy.

The group will meet three (3) times prior to course travel immediately after the semester ends. Final class dates/times will be communicated to selected students.

Accepted Undergraduate Engineering Students will be enrolled in ENGR 1625: Engineering and Business Collaborations in India. This is a three (3) credit course and would be part of your 12-18 credit hours. To find out how the course will be counted toward requirements, please see the faculty director of your department.

Pricing Information

$3199 - Full-time Katz MBA students and registered Engineering students (above semester tuition)

$6199 - Professional MBA/Part-time students (includes 3 credits of tuition)

A $500 deposit will be due upon acceptance into the program. More information on the deposit will be communicated to accepted students.

Key Dates for Fall Program

• April 19 - Applications Open
• June 1 - Application Deadline
  • Please note, students from the School of Engineering may be asked to meet with Katz program staff following the application deadline.​​
• End of June - Students Notified of Selection Status
  • Panther Program Agreement Meeting Schedule:
    • Tuesday, August 27 - 5:00PM - 6:20PM 
    • ​Mervis Hall 114​
• November, 2019 - GRP course begins

If you do not have a valid passport or need to renew yours, get started right away. Passports must be valid at least six months past the program end date.

Valid Passport MUST be in hand/uploaded to your application by August 1, 2019 for Fall 2019. 

This six-credit international experience is for students wishing to gain valuable experience and exposure in an international professional work environment.  The course purpose is to enhance the students’ internship experience in the field making it more valuable by providing the opportunity to analyze, discuss, and contextualize their work and evaluate personal experience and accomplishments. The course is divided into two different thematic sections:
1) The course helps students understand issues related to their internship placements business environment and the peculiarities of local contemporary socio-economic trends.
2) The course actively engages in an experiential learning journey towards personal development and career empowerment, by examining critical strategies for personal and career success in a global marketplace and evaluating personal attitudes, skills, interests and knowledge.
3) The course directly addresses professional development by engaging participants in formal career readiness exercises.  The goal is for participants to understand transferrable skills, cross-cultural skills and global competence and articulate these elements in the form of cover letters, resumes and interviews in order to better prepare for entering today’s job market.
The course helps students make the necessary connections between intercultural learning and personal employability so that they better understand and articulate study abroad experiences in ways meaningful for personal and professional advancement, enhancement of global competence and intercultural awareness.  
Overall Course Objectives:

• Discuss and describe the main features and issues relevant to contemporary labor market in the destination country, business environment, and socio-economic developments.
• Critically reflect on personal attributes and assess strengths and skills necessary for success in your field and career ambitions.
• Examine 21st century job skills, employment trends and their relation to the global marketplace of careers and professional development.
• Explore and identify international career opportunities in your field of interest
• Develop a “tool kit” of concepts and information regarding the cultural and business climate of the country in focus. 
• Recognize, observe, and describe cultural differences and their impact on people’s behaviors, attitudes and values through active and targeted engagement with host culture, people, and city.
• Recognize and describe how your professional competences, global competence, and intercultural awareness have improved during the internship and apply the acquired knowledge, attitudes and skills to personal and professional goals.
• Develop and articulate a personal employment narrative both verbally and in writing that integrates study abroad experience with career professionalism and global competence.

Johnstown Campus Course Number, 1-credit.  This course is designed to give you an understanding of Ecuador’s natural and cultural assets including art, chocolate, ancient cities and adventure destinations and how to best market them to the world.  This will be a hands-on experience where you will make your own chocolate, pottery and help locals prepare native crops as well as design promotions and refine and position their natural and cultural offerings for the global market.  This is a real world experience that will be invaluable in your career as a marketer or employee in global enterprise.
 

This course explores service learning as a form of active learning that values critical thinking and problem solving. When service-learning is effectively implemented, students gain in measures of academic achievement, citizenship, and leadership competence. There are several components of the service learning (SL) approach:

• SL uses community service as the vehicle for the attainment of students' academic goals and objectives.
• Community service fills a need in the community through volunteer efforts. Service-learning also fills that need, but it uses that need as a foundation to examine ourselves, society, and the future. Further, service-learning provides students with opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real-life situations.
• SL identifies in advance and tracks specific learning objectives and goals.
• Students perform a valuable, significant, and necessary service which has real consequence to a community, organization or other stakeholder group.
• SL enhances student learning by joining theory with experience and thought with action; it also helps students to see the relevance of academic subject to the real world.
• SL also builds leadership competence through practice, reflection and active engagement.

Upon completion of the course, students will have accomplished the following:

1. Developed an understanding of the concept of servant leadership and how it explains the inextricable link between ethics and effective leadership.
2. Studied the key characteristics of servant leadership and how they related to and impact both personal and business success.
3. Enhanced one's project management skills by working as part of a team on a servant leadership project.
4. Develop critical leadership skills such as conflict resolution, negotiations and high impact communication.
5. Applied course concepts to a relevant example in the service learning project, in which the teams work on a specific external project related to leadership, social responsibility, and ethics in business.
6. Applied course concepts using a case analysis, business plan, and/or presentation to a client.