Going Global for An MBA

摘要

SOON THE NEW MBA STUDENTS at RSM Erasmus University in Rotterdam would be hunched over textbooks for their finance and marketing courses,but first it was time to pound on a goatskin stretched across a hollow piece of wood.That's part of the orientation for RSM's 96 incoming international MBA students,most from outside the Netherlands,to help them get used to crossing cultural barriers and working together as teams.Their goal: learn the art of Sewa-style African drumming-in a day.Under the tutelage of instructors from Sewa Beats,a Swiss company that specializes in corporate drumming sessions,the students became passable tribal drummers by nightfall,performing complicated Mandinka rhythms in groups and,in the judgment of one observer,rocking the house.