Answering the GMAC MET Fund Call
The GMAC MET Fund was created with the intention of ‘giving back’ and developing management education. With this in mind, the 2012 i2i Challenge called for innovative ideas to enhance graduate management education. In response to this challenge, 650 ideas to enhance graduate management education were submitted to the i2i Challenge, of which the top 20 received financial awards. Next, the 12 business schools with the most creative initiatives were provided with further funding so as to implement their ideas in a way that could be replicated across the world. The GIM, presented by ESADE, is proud to have been amongst these 12 awardees.
Accordingly, it goes without saying that several of the MET Fund’s Ideas lie at the core of the GIM and are evident in the learning objectives of the module. Four of these ideas correspond to the curriculum category, meanwhile one is linked to the technology category. Table 1 presents the correspondence between MET Fund ideas and the learning objectives of the GIM.
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MET Fund Ideas Category |
MET Fund ideas |
Relevance for the Global Integrative Module project The project aims to promote students’: |
| Curriculum |
Using ‘big ideas’ to solve big problems
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Development of a professional approach that allows them to feel capable of confronting and successfully solving problems, no matter how complex these might be |
| Practical Challenge for Social Good | Development of competences to solve complex problems by applying pragmatic as well as socially responsible criteria, catering for both global and local perspectives | |
| Communication and Information Technology: What else is there? |
Shared decision‐making and information search through strategic ICT use |
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| Externship, Preparing for the Telecom Age |
Development of competences to collaborate in the construction of a community of practice (simulation of professional consultancy situation) in virtual environments, making the most out of the opportunities that these put at our disposal |
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| Technology | A Whole New World of Opportunity: Collaboration in the Virtual World |