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What is the statistical benefit of an international business degree? New analysis of growing survey data at Thunderbird School of Global Management puts the value at roughly eight years abroad in four or more countries. “For the first time ever, we are able to show a return on investment for a global management degree,” said Garvin Distinguished Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., director of Thunderbird’s Global Mindset® Institute in Glendale, Arizona. Javidan’s research team bases its conclusions on more than 10,000 survey results from the Global Mindset Instrument, a scientific self-assessment developed at Thunderbird to measure a manager’s capacity to thrive in unfamiliar environments with people from diverse backgrounds. Javidan said the 10,000 survey milestone — which Thunderbird passed on May 10, 2011 — means the sample size is large enough to identify trends, predict outcomes and make comparisons among subgroups. Audio: Turbo charge your Global Mindset (1:54)

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Students who come to Thunderbird School of Global Management tend to have one thing in common. They are misfits. That’s the best description Thunderbird Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., can find. Normal people prefer to live and work in familiar environments surrounded by others who speak the same language, share the same values and eat the same foods. Thunderbird students are different. They prefer cross-cultural adventures in unfamiliar locations. When they come to Thunderbird, they finally find a place where they belong. “You are coming home,” Javidan tells incoming students Aug. 11, 2010, during the orientation for Thunderbird’s Global MBA for Latin American Managers program. “This is your home. We are delighted to be with you for the journey you are starting.” Audio: Thunderbird Misfits (28:27)

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Some business leaders excel when their companies send them overseas to do business in foreign environments. Others flop. Thunderbird Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., decided to find out why. The result was the Global Mindset Inventory, a scientific instrument that measures a person’s capacity to influence people from different cultural backgrounds.
Audio: What makes a global leader special? (2:17)

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