Message from the Director

As we navigate through the tumultuous beginnings of the third millennium, information technology-by crushing the cost of communications is accelerating the globalization of manufacturing, commerce and finance. Indeed the relentless rise of the digital cybereconomy is weakening the grip of national government policies. And yet diehard sovereigns, who are at times prodded by ethnic insurgents, are exacerbating the world socio- cultural and political fragmentation.

It has been the unique mission of The Fletcher School, ever since its inception in 1933 as the premier graduate institute in international affairs, to nurture geocentric business leaders who can steer their firms through the maze of the constantly changing national and international marketplace. Fletcher students secure their core analytical competencies with a rigorous curriculum in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Decision Sciences, and Strategic Management while their distance vision is sharpened by a renaissance education in international Law, Politics, and History.

The Fletcher School's International Business Program combines cutting edge international management education-on par with leading traditionally ethnocentric MBA programs-with an interdisciplinary grasp of the major socio-cultural and political forces that are continuously reshaping the global market-place. Accordingly, the Fletcher School prepares the 21 st century geocentric manager for the intricacies of project financing, international securitization, foreign market entry strategies or a global product launch; Fletcher-trained managers can negotiate adroitly with a French union leader, a Brazilian alliance partner, or an Indonesian distributor. At home abroad, Fletcher alumni have time and again demonstrated their uncanny propensity to excel as professional managers in globally reaching organizations. This is the Fletcher Advantage, and I invite you to learn more about it.

Laurent Jacque
Director of the International Business Program
Walter B. Wriston Professor of International Finance and Banking
617-627-5982
laurent.jacque@tufts.edu

Dorothy Orszulak
Associate Director of the International Business Program
617-627-3665
dorothy.orszulak@tufts.edu