There is a shift that happens around midterm season . I begin to see students in class that I haven’t seen since the first week of the semester. Sometimes, I meet students for the very first time! Emails increase. Questions become more specific. There’s a noticeable edge in conversations about what to study and how to prepare. The semester itself hasn’t changed. But the nervous system has.   Midterms have a way of compressing time. What once felt manageable suddenly feels imm

At the start of each year, we write down goals with the best of intentions: eat better, exercise more, be more productive, finally finish that book, and the collective "I gotta go to the gym." We imagine a New Year, New You.  And yet the data are consistent: only about 9% of people actually keep their New Year’s resolutions , 23% quit within the first week, and roughly 64% abandon resolutions by the end of January . I find this both humbling and illuminating, not because we’r

For decades the discipline of international business was the gold standard for preparing globally minded professionals. Students learned about trade flows, exchange rates, and cultural nuance through case studies that spanned continents. Yet in 2025, the global landscape looks markedly different. Supply chains are regionalizing, AI is rewriting business models, and global mobility is increasingly digital. So, is international business education being quietly retired, or is it

In today’s classrooms and boardrooms, “global” has gone digital. Students collaborate across continents through shared drives, executives negotiate through video calls, and translation tools blur linguistic boundaries at the tap of a button. Technology has changed how we study and engage with culture and in doing so, it has quietly changed culture itself.   International business once focused on frameworks like Hofstede’s cultural dimensions that were built to help us underst