Babson Electives Abroad

Explore a new culture and build your global network on an eight day program while you apply coursework in Entrepreneurship, Design Practices, Start Up/International Strategy, and Global Brand Management. You will move beyond the typical tourist experience with faculty-curated cultural tours, conversations with global business leaders, collaboration with students at universities around the world, and connections with global alumni networks. Earn 3 credits and travel with your fellow classmates for a one-of-a-kind abroad experience during your semester break!

Courses 2024-2025

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OIM Brazil: Global Health Innovation Lab || Travel »

August 2024 Travel || Fall Enrollment [Application Closed]

From the beaches of Joao Pessoa to the technologically advancing clinics of Campina Grande and Porto Digital in Recife, work in student teams to ideate, test, and implement health innovations in Brazil. Visit clinics and hospitals, enjoy historical and cultural sites, and work with faculty and students from the Unifacisa, founded by the family of Dr. Diego Gadelha, MBA '22. Continue your projects through the fall, concluding with a bi-continental final presentation with industry leaders.

Prof. Wiljeana Glover

STR International Consulting Experience || Travel »

January 2025 Travel || Spring Enrollment [Application Closed]

Work on a consulting project focused on an international company’s business issue. Your team will travel to the company location to commence the consulting engagement. Learn about the local culture, economy and historical and current business trends in preparation for your in-person client meetings and conduct in country primary research during the pre-travel academic sessions. Receive guidance from the faculty advisor, meet weekly with the client, conduct primary and secondary research, analyze the data collected, and virtually present the findings and recommendations to the client.

Prof. Dwight Gertz and Prof. Kim Sawyer

STR Iceland: Strategy and Economic Disruption in Iceland || Travel »

March 2025 Travel || Spring Enrollment [Initial Apps Close 10/23/24; Rolling Apps Open 10/24/24 & Close 11/4/24]

This course involves an interdisciplinary approach toward understanding strategy, economics, and entrepreneurship amid disruption and what successful business leaders have done to continually adapt and find new opportunities in a rapidly and drastically changing environment. Meet and learn from business leaders and entrepreneurs in Reykjavik, Akureyri, and other areas in Iceland.

Prof. Edward Brzychcy

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OIM Denmark: Technology, Design, and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Systems || Travel »

May 2025 Travel || Summer Enrollment [Applications open on 11/11/24 and close on 11/25/24]

Experience Denmark’s sustainable economic system that is unique and aspirational. Observe how sustainable innovations and entrepreneurial thinking were implemented with business model innovations for scaling ideas. You will interact with business leaders engaged in sustainable transformation of key economic areas involving energy, food, mobility, building, and industrial production.

Prof. Sinan Erzurumlu

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Previous Course Offerings

Previous short-term program course offerings include:

ECN7575 Italy: Business Models, Competitiveness, and the Changing European Environment
EPS7538 Japan: Institutions and Entrepreneurship
MOB7526 Doing Business in Brazil
MOB7553 Hong Kong Startup Strategy

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