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Another major step in Harvard’s transition from “an American university that likes to consider itself global” to becoming an actual “global university” is expanding its study abroad programs...
...South Asia Initiative is working with the College’s Office of International Programs to develop a new model for undergraduate study abroad in South Asia. The Mumbai office will offer a student orientation program and contacts with universities, research institutions and non-government organizations in the region...
...also encouraged collaboration and support between HBS and SAI. Summers told HBS Dean Kim B. Clark to look at the new Mumbai Center as a “modular system,” according to Buffington. The modular model, Buffington says, recommends that schools or centers looking to expand abroad should seek partnerships with other sectors of Harvard in the area. When convenient, as in the case of the HBS and SAI centers in Mumbai, they should share office space and administrative support with other Harvard groups...
...setting up these international centers, according to Buffington. While he acknowledges that HBS and SAI agreed last-minute to partner their offices in Mumbai, he says that future centers will have greater “modular” integration and will seek to unite Harvard’s presence abroad...
...Senior Associate Dean Richard H.K. Vietor says that despite this aim to centralize research abroad, international centers will not lose their autonomy. Their primary purpose and responsibility will remain the same—to support business school faculty conducting international research...