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by Aaron Wilder ‘08, Development Fellow

The Thunderbird Emerging Markets Laboratory (TEM-Lab) is a capstone course to be launched in early 2010 offering students an opportunity to apply the full range of professional skills they have acquired during their studies. TEM-Lab consists of participation in a consulting project for a client organization in an emerging market country anywhere in the world after the completion of the prerequisite Organizational Consulting course. TEM-Lab serves all sectors: governmental, for-profit, and nonprofit.

The Organizational Consulting course (3 academic credits) will include in-classroom discussion and lectures, case analyses, experiential learning events, critical thinking skill-building exercises, and a consultancy practicum. The consulting practicum for this course, conducted on-campus, involves assignments focusing on organizational challenges faced by local, regional, and national organizations.
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by Aaron Wilder ‘08, Development Fellow

Today, November 12, 2009, marks the groundbreaking on a very important campus project: the green historic renovation of the Tower. The Tower remains a symbol. It represents the heart and history of the school, the time that influenced its establishment and mission. Built in 1939, the Tower served as the Air Control Tower and officer’s quarters at Thunderbird Airfield I where international pilots were trained during World War II. Two years ago, students Andrew Burman, Will Counts, and Rebecca Mitchell took it upon themselves to organize an effort to not only restore the Tower as a historic structure, but also to better align this monument with Thunderbird’s dedication to sustainability.
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by Aaron Wilder ‘08, Development Fellow

Thunderbird has a long history of leadership in educating socially-minded business leaders and has led the charge to incorporate ethics as a central component in management education across curriculum here in the United States as well as within foreign and other domestic institutions of higher learning. In fact, Dr. Ángel Cabrera, Thunderbird’s current president, chaired the committee that created the United Nations Global Compact’s Principles of Responsible Management Education (www.unprme.org) with the motivating realization that there cannot be a more socially responsible business world without academic institutions creating more socially responsible business leaders.
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by Aaron Wilder ‘08, Development Fellow

In the past few years, there has been a dramatic society-wide increase of interest in learning about management, specifically in contexts diverging from the private, or for-profit, sector. Instead, attention has shifted toward other areas, most notably the social, or nonprofit, sector. The two main factors contributing to this increase of interest in social sector management from business students are the need to create greater social capital in an increasingly globalized world and the continuing need for skilled managers articulated by the millions of nonprofit institutions here in the United States as well as those abroad. Thunderbird students arrive on-campus with a mindset that is pre-disposed toward social responsibility and sustainable value creation. That mindset is expressed through volunteering at ThunderCares Day, being involved in social change student groups like ThunderGreen and GLOBE, as well as employing the management acumen learned at Thunderbird in a social sector career after graduation.
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by Aaron Wilder ‘08, Development Fellow

Thunderbird endeavors to achieve its mission to “educate global leaders who create sustainable prosperity worldwide” through its portfolio of graduate degree programs as well as through its philanthropic initiative, Thunderbird for Good. This initiative was launched in 2005 to solidify the school’s dedication to global citizenship and leverage its expertise in international business to help non-traditional students, such as women entrepreneurs, in developing countries. Thunderbird for Good’s own mission is to provide learning experiences for non-traditional students who can use business and management skills to fight poverty, secure peace, and improve living conditions in their communities. It has led successful programs for Afghan and Jordanian women and will be launching new programs in Latin America and Africa in the near future.
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by Aaron Wilder ‘08, Development Fellow

In order to meet the needs of organizations recruiting graduate students today, Thunderbird School of Global Management provides its emerging leaders with a number of pertinent skills for today’s rapidly changing post-graduate career landscape. These skills include the ability to build diverse teams, communicate, make decisions, mentor, network, and set goals all in cross-cultural settings. In effect, the next generation of world leaders must be global change catalysts. Thunderbird’s Leadership Education & Development for Greater Effectiveness (Leadership EDGE) program seeks to meet this need by enabling students to become more effective horizontal managers and global team leaders through individual, interpersonal, and experiential leadership education activities that complement what is learned in the classroom.
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