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 120,000 students from 500 universities in 110 countries 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*:

• 2025-1a: January 20 – March 9, 2025
  Application deadline: January 10
• 2025-1b: March 3 – April 21, 2025
  Application deadline: February 25
• 2025-2a: August 25 – October 12, 2025
  Application deadline: August 15
• 2025-2b: October 6 – November 30, 2025
  Application deadline: September 25, 2025

*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

Dr. Vas Taras
Professor of International Business and Department Head
Vice President Administration-Elect, Academy of International Business
Fellow of the Academy of International Business, Southeast USA
X-Culture Project Founder and Coordinator
Bryan School of Business and Economics
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Office: 336-256-8611
Cell: 336-854-4102
v_taras@uncg.edu
www.X-Culture.org