The MIB (Master’s in International Business) program at Fletcher is relatively new — just a handful of graduating classes so far — but it is making its mark on business education discourse.  Bhaskar Chakravorti, who heads Fletcher’s business initiatives, has had his ideas featured in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, among others.  And if you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to read the Ten Questions feature, where Dean Chakravorti engages his colleagues on a variety of issues.

Posted by Jessica Daniels on 20 Mar 2012 No Comments »

Here’s something we think is pretty cool.  As a way of capturing the complex questions that are frequently discussed at Fletcher, both inside the classroom and out, the business program is putting together a series of interviews between Bhaskar Chakravorti (our dean for business programs) and Fletcher business professors.  New interviews will be posted each week, but the first three are available now.  Rather than grasping for a way to summarize the interviews, I’ll just share the MIB program’s description:

Posted by Jessica Daniels on 11 Oct 2011 No Comments »

Though all of us in Admissions work with all programs, Kristen works the most directly with the MIB (Master’s in International Business) students.  I asked her to share her thoughts on the start of the 2011-2012 MIB year.

Last Monday marked one of the best days of the year for me:  after a year (sometimes two, sometimes three) of working with applicants to the MIB program, the new students arrived here on campus.  It’s very gratifying to see in person the people you have come to know through their applications and emails, and maybe, if you are lucky, a brief visit or two.

The students in the MIB program start a bit earlier than those in Fletcher’s other on-campus programs.  They are required to take a two-week pre-session course on Strategic Management that precedes a fun week of Orientation activities.  Not that the pre-session isn’t fun (we make sure to build that in), but it’s also quite intense. With three hours of case-based class lecture and discussion each day, the students stay very busy from the moment they arrive on campus.  The class sessions are interspersed with a few social events and luncheon lectures by Fletcher faculty, to create a break in the day.

This year we welcomed 38 students to the pre-session:  32 new MIBs, and eight students from other programs.  It’s nice to have these LLMs, MALDs, and PhDs in the class to add a different perspective.  That is, after all, the great advantage of a Fletcher education.

Posted by Jessica Daniels on 23 Aug 2011 No Comments »