All posts by Vas Taras
X-Culture Academy Participation Fees
X-Culture is not a for-profit business or a company in a traditional sense. X-Culture is a community of hundreds of professors around the world who work together to provide their students with an opportunity to learn international business through experience. Every professor who joins the X-Culture community helps us run the project. Some professors help…
InnoVits Business Accelerator
ANY STARTUP FOUNDERS/MANAGERS HERE? One of X-Culture’s partners, an Italian business accelerator/incubator Innovits runs an annual idea competition with the purpose of selecting and nurturing the highest potential projects. They have two programs: Gymnasium Academy The acceleration program is called Gymnasium lasts about 5 months. Meetings are scheduled every 2 weeks with…
Research Xackathon, Greensboro, NC
Research network workshop on “The concept of cultural archetypes – A way of measuring culture and improving our understanding of cultural differences?” University of North Carolina, USA, August 15 – 17, 2018 Mid of August 2018 the members of the research network met with various researcher from Australia and the U.S. for a workshop on…
X-Culture Kids Presentations
PREPARE TO BE AMAZED. X-CULTURE KIDS PRESENTATIONS. As you may know, this semester we tested if kids ages 9-14 can participate in X-Culture, if they are capable of and would benefit from completing a business consulting projects in global virtual teams. 99 kids completed the project. They worked in teams of about 5, each person from…
CAN KIDS DO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS?
X-Culture Kids: Reflections after the Global Symposium in Italy Here is what we know after testing X-Culture Kids for 9 months. [gm album=46] So, after years of parents asking to enroll their kids in X-Culture, I gave in and allowed 100 kids take part in the project alongside the university students last spring. It went…
EXPERIMENTS WITH BOOSTING RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY This summer, we have tested three different ways of boosting research productivity. In June, right before the AIB conference, we ran a 4+3 Day Research Xackathon: https://x-culture.org/2018-research-conference/. It was a full-flagged Silicon-Valley-style hackathon, where we basically locked ourselves in a lab on a university campus (UWLX) for several days and did non-stop…
2018 Nashville, TN, USA
X-Culture / Academy of International Business Student Symposium icon-calendar Dates: November 1-3, 2018. icon-location-arrow Location: Nashville, TN Hosted by Belmont University icon-group Number of participants: Limited to 50 students. The selection process is competitive. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrated excellence in past X-culture participation.
The Payment Challenge
Have you tried paying to or receiving money from 40+ countries? X-Culture receives payments from about 40 countries: universities paying for participating in the project; students registering for the X-Culture Symposium. Sometimes students don’t get a visa to attend the symposium, so we must issue a refund. Here is what I have learned so far:
Simone Dell’Oca to stay with X-Culture for 2 more years
VERY GOOD NEWS FOR X-CULTURE Simone Dell’Oca has received a full scholarship to do his MBA degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and will stay with X-Culture for two more years. Those who don’t know, Simone has been X-Culture’s Admin for three years. RECRUITMENT: An X-Culture Admin must have a very long attention…
X-Culture As a Client: An Unusual Experience
I had an unusual experience a few days ago. X-Culture was a client of a student project team. For all these years, X-Culture has been in the business of recruiting thousands of students around the world and, with their help, solving problems for companies. In the process, the students learn how to work in international…