X-Culture Call for Participants

Dear IB Colleagues:

If you would like to add a real international business consulting project to your International Business/Management/Marketing courses, the X-Culture Project might be a good choice.

Over 130,000 students from 550 universities in 70+ countries on 6 continents have participated in X-Culture over the years, and more join the project every semester (full list here).

About X-Culture:

X-Culture is a partnership of business professors. We put our students in global virtual teams (GVTs). About 6 per team, each in a different country.
The students work on real-life international business challenges presented by real companies. The students serve as IB consultants while also learning how to work with people from other cultures.
No simulations. Real international virtual teams. Real clients. No travel is needed. All collaboration is virtual.
About 6,000 MBA and undergraduate students from 70+ countries on 6 continents participate in X-Culture every semester (70,000+ have participated in X-Culture so far).
The best students are then invited to the X-Culture Global Symposium, where they meet their team members and top managers from the client company.
X-Culture won Wharton’s Re-Imagine Education Award in the Nurturing Employability category.
Research is a big part of X-Culture. So, if you need to publish, we can help, too.

Divisions:

Undergraduate
Master’s
EMBA
NEW: Working professionals

Dates*:

2026-1a: January 26 – March 15
2026-1b: March 2 – April 20
2025-2a: August 24 – October 11
2025-2b: October 5 – November 23

*The dates are tentative and will be finalized after the participant list is ready and we have information about all participants’ academic schedules. +/- up to 7 days is possible.

More info:

How it works: https://x-culture.org/
What you gain as an instructor: https://x-culture.org/for-instructors/
What your students gain: https://x-culture.org/for-students/

Questions: Admin@X-Culture.org

Ready to sign up? APPLY HERE TO JOIN X-CULTURE

Vas Taras, PhD
X-Culture Project Founder and Coordinator
J. Bryan Distinguished Professor and Department Head
Department of Management
Bryan School of Business and Economics
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of HRM
v_taras@uncg.edu