The Global Integrative Module (GIM)

The highly uncertain current socio-economic environment that characterizes our world today requires management professionals to be ready to confront and contribute to the resolution of the challenges involved in their professional activity, no matter how complex these may be. Moreover, the global scope and the social implications of these challenges call for the application of an international approach and for the exercise of responsible leadership, two dimensions that need to be incorporated in the training of future managers.  

The Global Integrative Module (GIM) project, funded by the Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Challenge Call 2012 of the Graduate Management Admission Council’s (GMAC) Management Education for Tomorrow (MET) Fund and hosted by ESADE Business School confronts students with the resolution of a challenge that is current social, political and economic relevance. Students participating in the module are required to go beyond reflection in order to construct a personal and yet conceptually and practically justified action-oriented position which will take the form of a report where recommendations for companies, organizations, governments to make the difference in solving the challenge are proposed.  

The learning experience is based on collaborative dynamics where students work in academically and culturally diverse virtual teams. Participating students have varying academic backgrounds pertaining to either the Master in Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science (MSc) or undergraduate programmes, at one of four business schools from across the globe; ESADE, NYU Stern, SDA Bocconi and Sogang University.