Spring 11 MASTER.indd - Thunderbird Magazine

Latin American
program spreads
worldwide
Don’t be fooled
by the name of
Thunderbird’s
Global MBA for
Latin American Managers.
Although the majority of
students in the dual degree
program come from Latin
America, an increasing number
come from such diverse
places such as Poland, the
Netherlands, Norway and
Canada.
Program director Patricia
A. Breceda ’11 said many
graduates also end up working
outside Latin America.
“I’ve had students get relocated
to Geneva and Zurich,”
she said. “And they credit this
program for much of their
success.”
Overall, the program’s
current cohorts represent
23 countries. Breceda said
some students desire to do
business in Latin America,
others already do business in
the region, and some leave
the region and work in other
parts of the world.
Recently, a student living
APRIL MORALES
Global MBA students visit Annecy, France, on May 7, 2010, during
the Geneva Interim. Students, from left, include Eliel Amaya ’11 from
Campus Santa Fe in Mexico City; Rodrigo Coronado ’11 from Campus
Guadalajara, Mexico; Ian Henderson ’11 from Campus Santa Fe; and
Vanessa Salcedo ’11 from Campus Lima, Peru.
in Norway was relocated to
Mexico City to work with an
auto company.
With students spread
around the world, face-to-face
classes take place at 15 satellite
receiving sites throughout
seven Latin American
countries, where students and
professors experience a live
teaching experience. Breceda
said the program also will
add an Argentina campus in
the near future.
Since the dual degree
offering launched in 1998
with Tecnológico de Monterrey
in Mexico, nearly 1,500
students have graduated from
the program.
news & notes
Students
win case
competition
Thunderbird students
Arun Rengathan ’11, Franz
Seywerd ’11, Naren Balasubramaniam
’11, Renuka
Laddu ’11, Shyam Daraboina
’11 and Vivek Mehta
’11 captured first place at the
APICS West Coast Student
Case Competition held Feb.
11-12, 2011, in San Diego,
California.
Teams had nine hours to
analyze a fictitious manufacturing
company facing
severe late customer delivery
problems and welding capacity
constraints. They were
told to make recommendations
to the executives of the
company on ways to solve
their problems.
Within the allotted time,
teams had to prepare a twopage
case study paper and
an eight-minute PowerPoint
presentation. They then
presented their cases orally
to a panel of six judges, who
selected two finalists in each
division. Judges for the final
round were chapter leaders
of the APICS Southwest
District.
Get involved on the ground
Volunteers needed to work for six months in Peru as part
of Thunderbird’s “Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship
in Peru” (SWEP) Project.
• Spanish fluency required
• Thunderbird alumni preferred
• Project expenses covered
Qualified applicants should contact India Borba, Thunderbird for Good
Program Manager, at india.borba@thunderbird.edu.
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