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Global IQ? B What's Your A recent survey explores how business schools are increasing their students' global intelligence— and how they're re-evaluating their own. BY ROBERT DYER AND M. MURAT TARIMCILAR usiness educators are experimenting with both direct and indirect ways to increase the global IQ of their MBA students. But what makes an MBA pro- gram global? Like many business schools, we've been exploring that question for many years at The George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C. A team of GW researchers recently conducted a study to discover how business schools are increasing their own global intelligence, mak- ing the transition from simply offering global courses and components to integrating "global" throughout the entire program. They analyzed the Web sites of a sampling of MBA programs in the Financial Times' top 30 and surveyed 34 program administrators at MBA programs in the FT's top 100. Although the survey's sample size is small, its findings indicate that business schools are re-ex- amining and rethinking their programs in terms of global content. It's a trend that promises to inspire the introduction of innovative approaches in MBA programs worldwide. BizEd May/June 2011 47