Wharton Global Modular Courses (GMCs) deliver global, experience-based learning to Wharton students in key business locations around the world. Our courses are led on location by our world-class Wharton faculty, linking innovative ideas to new business phenomena, contextualized both in emerging markets and in developed economies.
Students take project-based courses on new, innovative business practices and mental models in select geographic locations best suited for experiential learning. The courses include classes and discussions led by Wharton faculty with expertise specific to both the new business models and to the geographic and market context. Each year since 2010, twelve courses are offered globally on locations including: Africa (Ghana, Rwanda), Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore China, Japan, India), the Middle East (Israel, UAE), Europe (UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia), and Latin America (Mexico, Argentina and Brazil).
GMCs expose students to a unique combination of local immersion, course concepts and cutting-edge business and social issues. The topics and locations give students first-hand exposure to business challenges and opportunities in regions undergoing rapid change by providing on-site company visits, meetings with prominent leaders working in the region, and interacting with students from host institutions as well as Wharton alumni. Students work across degree programs within Wharton (undergraduates, full-time and executive MBA students) and also are exposed to faculty and students in the local context when available. These courses deliver new teaching material, access to live cases set in the geographic region, and are taught in a new, intensive learning format creating an extremely dynamic and exciting learning experience for all.
2023-2024 Global Modular Course Schedule
Winter Break 2023-24
OIDD: Operations & Business in India: From Gandhi to Globalization
Local Partner: Ahmedabad University
Professors Senthil Veeraraghavan, Ziv Katalan & Pankaj Chandra (AU)
Ahmedabad, India
December 26-30, 2023
HCMG: Lessons Learned from Israeli Innovation
FNCE: Finance in the UAE
MKTG: Luxury Branding & Retailing in France: Bringing it into the 21st Century
BEPP: Doing Business in Brazil: Economic Development under Policy Uncertainty
Spring Break 2024
MGMT: Enterprise Growth Through Innovation & Ecosystems: The Indian Perspective
LGST: L3 for Web3: Blockchain, Crypto & Digital Assets
LGST/OIDD: Disruptive Technology, Innovation and Manufacturing
HCMG/OIDD: Healthcare & Business in Ghana
OIDD: Supply Chain Management in Mexico
LGST: Conducting Business in Emerging Economies: Colombia
Late Spring/Summer 2024
MGMT: Environmental Sustainability, Mobility & Innovation
OIDD: Sweden: Innovation and Sustainability
Local Partner: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Professor Senthil Veeraraghavan, Edwin Keh, & Professor Terrence Brown (KTH)
Stockholm, Sweden
April 29 – May 3, 2024
OIDD: Tech and Entrepreneurship in India
Local Partner: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Professor Kartik Hosanagar
Bangalore, India
April 29 – May 2, 2024
MGMT: Conflict, Leadership, and Change: Lessons from Rwanda
LGST/MGMT: Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Latvia and Estonia
Local Partners: University of Tartu Delta Management School, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
Professors Phil Nichols, Tyler Wry, Kadri Ukrainski (UT), and Ott Pärna (UT) & Nikita Pusnakovs (SSERiga)
Estonia and Latvia
May 27 – June 1, 2024