the global executive mba gemba programme offered by the fuqua school of business duke university is new delhi this year the classroom had participants from argentina australia brazil canada chile ethiopia france germany italy us and lebanon to mention a few in the words of a participant in todays global business world all multinational brands have to be aware of groundlevel realities of the places in which they operate as the implementation of even the core business strategies have to be streamlined in accordance to the local environment hence business innovation has to happen at the local level and management theories have to prepare individuals to address this facet apart from india the residency sites include londonst petersburg dubai shanghaisingapore and durham north carolina such programmes participants agree help in acquiring an understanding of the factors that influence markets and financial decisions within specific countries beyond classrooms also outofclassroom learning is becoming important with a focus on reallife application a case in point is mcgill universitys desautels faculty of management in march 2011 as part of the 5 hot cities of the world tour a group of mba students from canada came to india for reallife lessons in economics commerce culture and more as part of the programme launched and led by karl moore associate professor more than 25 students were in india on a 10day long trip moore explains that the idea is to give students an opportunity to understand where the erin obrien assistant dean trium global executive mba programme and nyu global programmes points out that the programme integrates international economic political and social policy into the business curriculum through the participation of lse he explains that participants attend six intensive modules hosted at each of the three alliance schools new york paris london as global economy is going for daniel novak a third year student at mcgill the indiavisit helped him to watch the growth of the indian industry firsthand as we move into our careers he says we should be able to apply concepts internationally because our careers are likely to become more international in the futurecourtesy myeducationtimescom