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EMBAC also invites corporations that support the executive education industry to become corporate members. Corporate members participate in the Executive MBA Council Conference, and a corporate representative also serves on the Board of Trustees.

Andromeda Simulations International

Andromeda Simulations International teaches business acumen by using its Income|Outcome family of simulations. Andromeda usually provides workshops for kick-off and program capstone activities and to quickly get cohorts up to speed with accounting and business concepts.

Amazon Kindle Education

A Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) opened on the web in July 1995. Today, Amazon Kindle Education offers a wide variety of education solutions and products for schools that are making the transition to digital education. To this end, Amazon Kindle Education has created the Whispercast tool, a powerful SAAS platform that enables schools and programs to discover, procure, manage, and deliver eBooks, eTextbooks, apps, and documents quickly and easily at scale to most any device that students own including Fire tablets, Kindle eReaders, iPads, PC, Mac, and Android devices.

Austral Education Group

Based in South America, The Austral Group helps organize visits to South America for Executive MBA and MBA Programs. In additional to handling all logistics, The Austral Group offers the local knowledge and contacts necessary to provide a complete South American business educational experience.

Bschool Travel

An educational travel organization, Bschool Travel partners with the top MBA and EMBA programs to execute high-quality global experiential learning programs and international residencies in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded by two Michigan Ross MBAs, Bschool Travel takes a strong pedagogical approach to its immersions, which is why it not only supports travel management services, but also provides expertise in program development, company sourcing, project scoping, and speaker engagements.

BusinessCAS by Liaison

For more than two decades, BusinessCAS by Liaison has streamlined the processes that higher education institutions use to manage their applications and market their programs to prospective students. Through Liaison’s admissions management and enrollment marketing solutions, more than 31,000 programs on more than 1,000 campuses nationwide reach prospective students, minimize administrative tasks, and create exceptional experiences for applicants during the full enrollment cycle — from first interest to first day on campus. Its Centralized Application Services CASs™ processes more than 2.5 million applications per year.

Campus Text

Campus Text originally joined EMBAC in 1998 and attended its first conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. For more than 25 years, Campus Text has worked and partnered with more than 125 programs at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and abroad. Campus Text provides print and digital textbooks and classroom materials to Executive, Professional, Weekend, and other MBA programs, either shipping them to programs or directly to students. Campus Text also sends digital book redemption codes to students typically within 24 hours. Most books are discounted, and Campus Text offers a bonus discount on the initial order for new customers. Campus Text takes pride in its customer service and its customers can attest to its efficient delivery of print and e-books.

CarringtonCrisp

CarringtonCrisp conducts research that offers higher education, including EMBA Programs, insights into the changing marketplace and brings data and creativity together to offer imaginative approaches and practical solutions to programs throughout the world.

Financial Times

Financial Times publishes a global newspaper on business and also offers a comprehensive education program to incorporate global business news into students’ lives.

Graduate Program Recruitment Solutions (GPRS)

Graduate Program Recruitment Solutions (GPRS) is an exclusive and highly revered provider of professional services to business schools. GPRS has delivered successful outcomes for EMBA, MBA, specialized master’s, and executive education programs nationwide, working with more than 50 colleges and universities across more than 120 graduate programs. GPRS specializes in growing enrollment for new and existing graduate programs, as well as helping with the transition to online learning. GPRS provides demand generation consulting, contact center recruitment solutions, and the industry’s first lead analysis and peer benchmarking platform.

Hilltop Global Group

With offices in Washington, D.C., and Nairobi, Kenya, Hilltop Global Group supports development initiatives in Africa. Hilltop facilitates turnkey African business residencies for business school programs and universities. With a leadership team of alumni from Georgetown University’s EMBA Program, Hilltop offers expertise to deliver standard and customized program services, which extend well beyond logistics to cross-industry consulting project sourcing and design, including key growth industries, unique cultural and humanitarian experiences, and much more.

Immersion India

Immersion India guides students, corporate executives, faculty, and professionals on study-centric, experiential learning programs in urban and rural India. The only company to win the prestigious UNWTO Global SDG competition in the Quality Education category, Immersion India customizes and tailors all programs to meet learning objectives with a key element of travel and cultural immersion experiences.

International Study Programs

International Study Programs provides fully customized academic tours for Executive MBA and MBA Programs to destinations worldwide, with a focus on offering access to a range of companies and key figures in business, government, academia, and the press.

Ivy Exec, Inc.

Ivy Exec facilitates an online network of more than 400,000 members who are accepted into the community because of their demonstrated professional success. Ivy Exec provides original career opportunities, professional development resources, and content to members while sharing career-enhancing resources from outside the Ivy Exec community. It also works with EMBA Programs and universities worldwide to market their programs to members and help them recruit high-achieving Ivy Exec community members as program participants.

Kuoni Tumlare

Maestro By Kuoni Tumlare Educational Programs offers a full menu of services for the EMBA and MBA international residency. Kuoni Tumlare marks more than 40 years of unparalleled success as a leading travel provider. With 20 offices throughout Europe and offices in Japan, China, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, Bangkok, Boston, São Paulo, and Mexico City, Maestro By Kuoni Tumlare Education Programs provides destination knowledge and an ability to meet all your program’s needs, from travel logistics to educational and corporate content.

MF Digital Marketing

MF Digital Marketing partners with graduate program admissions and marketing staff to meet upwardly mobile, working professionals where they are –- online. Specializing in digital lead generation and recruitment solely for graduate programs, MF Digital Marketing locates, nurtures, and offers relevant and timely information to working professionals who are interested in pursuing master’s degrees. It has driven positive outcomes for Arizona State University School of Law, UCLA Law, Kelley School of Business, Greehey School of Business, Wayne State University Law School, Emory University School of Law, St. Mary’s University School of Law (Texas), Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, UC Hastings Law, and others.

RNL

For nearly 50 years, colleges and non-profit organizations have turned to Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL) to enroll the students they want, help more students graduate and succeed, and build lifelong relationships with donors. Our mission is to make colleges, universities, and non-profits successful and vibrant with inspired and relevant engagement with our team of experts.

Southbridge Access

Based in South America, Southbridge Access provides turnkey solutions for business school programs with needs beyond standard travel logistics and ground support. Our company offers exclusive insight into key trends and access to ground-breaking companies and high-level executives in addition to a complete range of ground support and logistics, lodging, and group management services.

Study.Net

A recognized web-based learning resource, study.net makes learning more convenient, accessible, and successful for students and faculty, who use study.net to manage the assembly and electronic delivery of academic content – regardless of content type, source, cost, copyright information, or viewing platform. Study.net also facilitates forums, self-publishing, and access to a store of related resources.

TalentSage

TalentSage integrates evidence-based learning tools in its personalized learning experiences to help develop individuals, teams, boards, and organizations. TalentSage uses technology to simplify access, save time and money, and create scalable solutions for learning programs that its clients or its network of academics, practitioners, and executive coaches design and deliver. As a team of leadership development experts, TalentSage brings decades of experience in all aspects of learning, leadership, and talent development for executive students and corporate clients worldwide.

The Washington Campus

The Washington Campus is a non-profit business school consortium headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Washington Campus provides intensive, experiential seminars on business, politics, and public policy for EMBA and MBA students, as well as for executives and other audiences, from around the world.

WorldStrides Custom Programs

WorldStrides Custom Programs supports all aspects related to travel and academic planning for the EMBA international residency. In business for nearly 45 years the value, quality and stability of the organization has been recognized with recent institutional accreditation by AdvancEd. The organization operates worldwide.

Featured corporate member: Immersion India®

This EMBA cohort dived into a case study of the Indian-based strategy, technology, and business consulting company Wipro, focusing on the application of lean management in the service industry. When the time came for their international trip, it came with a bonus: The students travelled to India and met with the Wipro team that was developing the process of lean management.

EMBAC corporate member Immersion India arranged the visit, as well as the students’ other academic and cultural experiences in India. The company offers academic experiential learning programs in urban and rural India, collaborating closely with faculty and program leaders to design experiences for maximum educational and cultural impact.

While Immersion India officially started in 2017, its founders had worked in the field of international education for more than a decade.
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“We used to facilitate academic partnerships among institutions for students in India and students abroad, and through those partnerships we designed programs – they could be exchange programs, faculty-led programs, study-abroad programs – and we still do that,” says Vineeth Thomas, founder and managing partner.

“Through our history of working with universities, we also realized that students wanting to travel to India or universities wanting to send their students to India did not have a dedicated partner who could facilitate such trips.”

The founders formed Immersion India to fill that need, also noting an opportunity to raise the profile of India as a preferred destination for international education.

“We established Immersion India as a brand exclusively to cater to inbound short-term faculty-led programs,” says Thomas. Each program differs based on the interests and the goals of faculty and program leaders. “We basically try to understand the requirements of the faculty and university, and we design something that is tailor-based to their needs.”

Programs include both academic and cultural components. Students spend 75 percent of their time on the academic side, where they participate in lectures, seminars, workshops, company visits, and related experiences.

In addition to planning experiences in collaboration with faculty, Immersion India handles all onsite logistics, including accommodations, airport pick-up and drop-off, meals, transportation, and entry charges for places to visit, among other details, to help ensure the trip goes smoothly. “Services are covered end-to-end, with the only exclusions of international airfare, visas, and insurance costs.”

Immersion India researched and selected the 10 best-suited destinations for experiential learning programs in India. In the south, they include Karnataka, Pondicherry, Goa, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, and in the north, Rajasthan, New Delhi, Mumbai, and Gujarat. The destination list also includes the North-East states. For information about the Immersion India destinations, explore its online brochure.

After pivoting to virtual learning programs during the pandemic, travel resumed, and now programs can choose virtual or onsite, or a combination.

As an international education destination, India continues to garner interest, and Immersion India is working hard to position India as an ideal destination for academic programs. “India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world,” says Thomas. “There should not be a reason why anybody should miss traveling to India.”

In 2021, Immersion India received a global award for its work to craft quality academic programs.

In recognition of its unique contributions to sustainable and responsible tourism, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) chose Immersion India as the winner in the Quality Education Category of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Global Startup Competition. Responsible for promoting sustainable, accessible, and inclusive tourism, the UNWTO sponsored the competition to encourage the global innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem to embrace sustainability. The competition attracted more than 10,000 participants from 138 countries, with Immersion India as the only organization from India to make the list of finalists.

Immersion India learned about EMBAC from a faculty member and attended the 2022 EMBAC Conference in Austin, Texas, the first in-person EMBAC Conference since 2019. “As a first-timer, the members reached out to us,” says Thomas, who enjoyed meeting members from programs throughout the world. “They were very welcoming, and we felt very involved.”

For Thomas, the most rewarding part comes at the end of trips when students share their stories and experiences about how the trip transformed their understanding of India. “The most satisfying thing is changing the perceptions that many people have when they think about India. After they complete a trip to India, that perception is completely changed.”

For more information about Immersion India, contact Vineeth Thomas at vineeth.thomas@immersionindia.com or visit https://immersionindia.com.

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