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Students from Notre Dame Mendoza Business on the Frontlines Aldeia Martu, an indigenous network in the Amazon River basin. This year’s BOTFL course and its dual frontline course in America are campus-related due to coronavirus restrictions on overseas travel. Photo via Barbara Johnston / University of Notre Dame
MBA courses are not absent anywhere in the United States. At the Faculty of Business of the University of Notre Dame de Mendoza, “We strive to maintain the line, fight the right fight,” says Viva Bartkus, associate professor of administration. user when possible.
But coronavirus is not ignored, it cannot be, because it has replaced the nature of one of Mendoza’s maximum MBA programs.
Since Martijn Cremers became dean in 2019, the school has expanded its Business on the Frontlines program to a component of the full-time MBA, striving to realize Cremers’ vision of a degree that places experience learning in the midst of the student experience. As a component of this expansion, after years of development, the school announced the launch of a couple of additional programs: a national edition called Frontlines in America, where academics paint about projects in the United States, and Frontlines Engagement, an extensive program with one more condensed era than the six-credit BOTFL. These additions were considered, planned and eventually funded through donations totaling $21 million from five benefactors.
“We have been endowed, so we are very grateful,” he told Poets Bartkus, who runs the BOTFL program.
Long live Bartkus. University of Notre Dame Photos
Since 2008, Business on the Frontlines de Mendoza has sent MBA fellows to underdeveloped and post-conflict countries around the world to read about the effect of business, interact in interdisciplinary, data-driven and problem-solving study, and then apply their newly acquired wisdom to real-global problems. It is a practical and positive work, which is helping those who want it to the fullest and illustrates the philosophies of Our Lady and Mendoza.
Last year, BOTFL fellows worked on more than 50 projects in 30 countries, from Colombia to Macedonia and East Timor. Cremers, when he became dean, doubled the number of BOTFL participants to approximately 50, with the purpose of doubling it to one. One hundred 2021. La an opportunity to have more (and one day, all) academics will interact in a BOTFL experiment, a great driving force for enlargement to come with a national program, than in its last phase of planning in the spring.
Covid-19, the curveball that no one saw coming When the pandemic closed business schools and much of the rest of the world in March, expansion plans suddenly became secondary: Mendoza College leaders had the immediate dilemma of BOTFL academics running around the global, from Europe to the Middle East and Africa , you want to evacuate. Viva Bartkus recalls how, after a federal government decree on March 11, she and her team rushed home.
“I was at home in the United States and I saw President Trump’s speech on Wednesday the 11th night, where he said everyone had to be back from Europe until that date,” he recalls. “So we fought. I had two, training assistants, either ex-military. And so the three of us wallowed – they gave us all in the middle of the night between Wednesday and Thursday. We took them to the airports. We had to buy new tickets for some of them, however, everyone from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, returned before the March 13 deadline.
“One of our former fellows works for United Airlines, so she constantly checked where seats were available. It was very helpful. We brought everyone back to that aspect of the world. And for some of them, it was important, because they came from India, or from China or Canada. Notre Dame has many foreign scholars, so we had to bring them home. And then everyone in the Western Hemisphere, so Honduras, Brazil, Colombia, came back well. Then, without delay, we switch to online Zoom discussions for everyone. We had to replace the program a little bit, but I think we finished the course pretty well.
In a summer when Notre Dame announced that its MBA programs were on the rise, the most productive news is the long-awaited, even delayed due to the current fitness crisis, from Frontlines in America. This fall’s inaugural cohort consists of 12 academics, as well as 4 ex-teachers, adding graduate fellows from the MBA program, the Faculty of Law and the Keogh Master’s Degree in Global Affairs.
Describing the program, Bartkus says it is designed to explore the demanding situations of what she calls “the dignity of work” in the United States, from prejudice, violence and addiction to breaking the circle of family members, and more, and to creating solutions. “Part of that is running with components and running with them,” she says, “and in components reach other people who are very different from us. “Limited to campus this first year, academics who would normally go to communities across the United States would instead welcome components to South Bend; This fall, Bartkus says, the program has two, selected in component for its proximity – “driving distance” – to the Notre Dame campus.
“Our spouses are selected because they create livelihoods and jobs and create the economic situations for the expansion of the other most vulnerable people in our country,” he said. “I am very, very proud that in our first year we worked with the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago. He is in the Greater Grand Crossing community on Chicago’s south side, one of the 10 most violent communities in Chicago. The life expectancy of men is 10 years shorter than the Chicago average, which is the Grand Crossing average. So it’s quite a complicated place, however our spouse is wonderful and they have systems for other young people. And they also asked us to help them create businesses that can absorb some of those young people, at least while they’re in high school, so they can learn new skills. And then we’ll see how it goes from there. But that’s a three-year commitment to Comer Youth Center, because frankly, it can’t have all the effect it needs in the first year. And it is a spouse who can help us perceive urban poverty more wonderfully. “
The other U. S. spouse on the front line is Coalfield Development of Huntington, West Virginia. “They have a pretty wonderful program to help opioid addicts, convicts or others return to the force of painting,” Bartkus says. create a set of businesses. The CEO and his lieutenant-in-chief come from West Virginia to make a stop at us. So it’s a 100 percent assignment task that week. They don’t have other courses, so they can only paint along with spouses, organize dinners, interviews, etc. »
Frontline commitments, the show’s maximum extensive edition, are delayed for a year,” Bartkus says, “because they were very targeted at service partners in the country, or on-site in West Virginia or anywhere else. they just said, “Hey, wait a year. ” Which is wonderful, it will give us more opportunities to be informed about how to make Frontlines in America as best as possible. “
Ken and Susan Meyer, a long-time college benefactor, donated $15 million this summer to expand Business on the Frontlines, which will now bear their name.
“Our world order is vulnerable right now, in mid-2020,” said Ken Meyer, a 1966 Notre Dame graduate, in August. “The effect of the pandemic has been especially severe for the less fortunate among the Meyer Business on the Frontlines program will give our academics the opportunity to address these problems firsthand, work directly with those affected, and provide practical and affordable business solutions. What a glorious opportunity for all of us to make a genuine improvement in the lives of the less fortunate!»
The Donation of the Meyers, although it is the largest, not the only truly extensive donation botFL won this year. In January, John and Terri Dunbar donated $1 million to equip some groups with the show; John Dunbar, an advisor to the BOTFL team for six years, traveled with the school to Uganda, Sri Lanka, Lebanon and other destinations. Another $5 million donation came here in February from Paul Purcell, former CEO and president of Baird Investment Bank. cash to help canopy with daily operating expenses just before his death from cancer on February 28.
“With those 3 donations, we have more than enough cash to evolve,” Bartkus says. “But if you think about it, there are so many obstacles to the dignity of paintings in the world. There are many paintings to be made, made for our academics and professors.
“It’s a popular program. We have more programs than places, and we have more requests from partners than we can accept. Traditionally, the real limitation has been time. We have six staff members and two glorious instructors: Professor Kelly Rubey and Professor Joe Sweeney. Both have followed the program for more than five to eight years, and the Department of Management and Organization, my department, is ridiculously excited to hire them as instructor instructors for the department.
OLIVIA Feldpausch (right), MBA student, visits Fimka Sapalovska sheep farm in Umlena, Maleshevo region, northern Macedonia. The MBA fellows of Notre Dame traveled to the region in March 2020 to agricultural companies as a component of their Business on the Frontlines course. Barbara Johnston / University of Notre Dame
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