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QU MBA Executive Study in Hungary (June 1 - 12, 2009)

Corporate Sponsors for 2009

Spring: Promotional Brochure for Prospective Students

Description:
This is a 10 day executive MBA study in Hungary.  The primary objective is to expose MBA students to a foreign country and international companies at a range of levels.  The first three days of the visit focus on cultural, historical, institutional and political lectures to provide the students with an understanding of the local country.  Lecturers include the former Foreign Minister, former Ambassador to the US, former Central Bank Chair, current Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament, US Embassy Commercial Services, and various lecturers from the Corvinus University.  The second part of the visit consists of company visits to a range of companies located in Hungary (see below for complete list).  At each company, students visit the facilities and receive high level executive presentations of the company with extensive discussion with company executives.  The last day of the visit is an all-day networking event at a private estate in Zebegeny with QU MBA students, QU HABL Scholars in the region, and corporate executives from the region.  The top executives from each company visited are invited as do executives from other regional companies.  The networking day also serves as the annual meeting location for the Executive Board of Mentors for the QU HABL program.

Hotel Accommodations for students in 2009: Ibis Budapest Centrum (Info on Raday street area here )

Corporate Guests from Industrial Staffing and Rotator Staffing (both in New Jersey) Accommodations at Kempinski Hotel

Corporate Visits for 2009: AMCO (and OmniPack), Bausch & Lomb, Bergmann Könyvelő Iroda Kft.,  Deloitte-Touche, Díjbeszedő Rt. E.ON Hungária Zrt., Etyek Kúria, GE Hungary Zrt., LightTech, MediaMarkt-Saturn, Morgan Stanley, Oriens IM, and Zwack.

Non-Corporate Visits for 2009: US Embassy,  Corvinus University School of Management, and Hungarian Parliament

Other Useful Sites: Buda Castle, Hungarian Opera, Terror House (Optional), Town of Pecs (Optional)

Reading

From Ball	From His Excellency Geza Jeszenszky
Prior to Departure	Prior to Departure	Links from IB 600
Quick Hungarian History Budapest Book 1956 Book Economic Analysis Crash Course: here Wolff's MBA Guide to Hungary (2008): here	Reading 1: Hungarian History and the Politics of Transition Reading 2: Hungary's Foreign Policy Dilemmas Since Regaining Sovereignty Reading 3: More Bosnias? National and Ethnic Tensions in the Post-Communist World Reading 4: The Genesis of a Lasting Quarrel in Central Europe	http://www.geert-hofstede.com/  http://www.netmba.com/mgmt/ http://www.themanager.org/models/diamond.htm http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/global/diamond/
Example report on Dijbeszedo from 2008 trip: download.	Other: Let's Learn Hungarian (free pod casts, etc.)	Corvinus Schedule

Hungarian News

Budapest Sun -  general news	Portfolio.hu - all business and investment oriented.
Budapest Business Journal - business oriented but also general news	Heti Valasz (English) - like a Hungarian "US News and World Report"
Economist Magazine	Financial Times
Der Spiegel - German paper with good English site