Global Business Institute: London is over now, so it’s time to sum up my international experience and to describe the growth I see in myself personally, academically, and professionally. My primary goal for this program was to become a better critical thinker that leads to better decision making. And decision making includes planning, controlling, organizing,…
Author: dariaosiian
My experience taking classes abroad
I can honestly say that studying abroad was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Living in another country gave me the opportunity to get familiar with a new culture, meet new people and find new places to explore. I learned to live in the present moment and appreciate the small things. To…
GBI: London
I am participating in Global Business Institute: London, so my host city is London. It is one of the oldest cities in the world; its history goes back almost two millennia, and one of the most cosmopolitan. By far, the largest metropolis in the UK, it is also the economic, transport and cultural center of…
Goals to achieve
I think a career in entrepreneurship should consist of several stages in order to learn how to solve complex business problems. First of all, statistical and economic analysis of data and the market make financially profitable decisions possible. Marketing, communication and strategy will help convince the customer to buy something. Development of supply chains and…
GBI: London
Hello everyone! My name is Daria Osiian and I am a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh. I am a student within the College of Business Administration with a major in Finance and a minor in statistics, pursuing an additional International Business Certificate. I’m from Orenburg, it’s a city in southwest Russia, near the border…
Global Collaboration Simulation: Tip of the Iceberg – #8
In today’s simulation we worked as a group on Global Collaboration Simulation: Tip of the Iceberg. Students are assigned the role of a native English speaker or a nonnative English speaker at their organization, I was a nonnative English speaker in both simulations. The simulation constrains the ways in which the native and nonnative speakers…
Harvard ManageMentor: Global Collaboration – #7
Global leadership essentially refers to those individuals who work in more than a single cultural and/or geographic arena. Global leadership involves connecting across a wide range of boundaries, not just national and linguistic ones. There are all kinds of boundaries in the workplace (and beyond) that people need to work across, such as age, religious…
Leadership and Team Simulation: Everest V3 – #6
I climbed Mt. Everest in the Everest V3 group simulation. The simulation imitated the situation of working as a team to achieve the goal of climbing Mt. Everest. It is a team leadership simulation, with each team having a group of five people. Each person on the team had a distinct role as either Leader,…
Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence – #4
In today’s simulation we worked as a group on the Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence. In this simulation, we played one of two roles (i.e., CEO or Director of Product Innovation) at a sunglass manufacturing firm and faced the challenges associated with implementing an organization-wide environmental sustainability initiative. The largest takeaway I had from…
Leadership Simulation: Patient Zero – #4
In today’s simulation we worked as a group on the Leadership Simulation: Patient Zero. Each subsequent event was more difficult than the previous one, that’s why the final event was the hardest to decide on for me as an individual. This event was about the bombing of a group of infected citizens. The lives of…