The report says that Carleton and its School of Business view globalization as the way of the future and have implemented their curricula based on that ideology. School of Business director Vinod Kumar confirmed that description and said his school is committed to innovation and internationalization. Kumar says the BIB program is an example of innovativeness.
Students learn a new language intensively in the first and second years of their program.
They subsequently go abroad for their third year to study, at one of the 20-partner institutions, in a country where their new found language is native. Fourth year is spent back at Carleton where students continue to orient their business studies to the culture that they have experienced. Up until this stage, students have conducted their specialized programs in Russian, Italian, Spanish, French, Japanese and German. Because the current academic year is only the fourth in BIB's existence, the first wave of students to graduate will do so in June of 1998. The Minor in Business program is likely to become one of the institution's more popular products.