B-schools cross borders with global M.B.A.s, tours; Juggling location, cachet to set up joint programs.(Business schools, new programs)(Brief Article)

Crain's New York Business, August, 2001 by Wipperfurth, Heike

After taking eight courses in international business at Fordham University, Mary McNally considered herself pretty well informed about global affairs. But all the theoretical knowledge paled in comparison with the lessons she learned on a two-and-a-half-week trip that her school organized this spring to Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

``Unless you go and do it, it's just information and you don't really understand it,'' says Ms. McNally, 29, a senior associate at Zurich Scudder Investments Inc. and a part-time student at Fordham's Graduate School of Business Administration. In an era of increasing globalization, that sort of hands-on experience in other cultures is increasingly important, business schools say. But while foreign students have long flocked to...

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