BA(Hons) Business (Team Entrepreneurship) - Global Business Challenge 2023
Berrbizne Urzelai
Associate Professor in Business and Management Education. Enterprise Champion at the College of Business and Law. Module Leader at BA(Hons) Business (Team Entrepreneurship). UWE Bristol.
The end of another incredible Global Business Challenge! GBC2023 has been the biggest so far, with 250 participants, 34 multi-national, multi-cultural teams, 17 international businesses, 32 team coaches from 12 universities from around the world. Different undergraduate and postgraduate students from different degrees in countries such as UK, USA, Ecuador, Finland, Tanzania, Lithuania, Germany or Hungary have worked together to provide value and solutions to a wide range of business clients working in different areas and sectors. UWE Bristol – BA(Hons) Business (Team Entrepreneurship) students were involved in 5 different teams and a team coach from the programme was coaching in a 6th team.
The students shared their reflections in the final pechakucha presentations, and it was clear they got a lot from it! It was great to see how many students were fully focused and adopting a business oriented professional approach in their journey. They learnt about how to do business internationally, how to work in international teams with challenging coordination and time zone barriers, how to do consultancy work and communicate and negotiate with clients, how to project manage and plan, or how to cultivate their empathy and patience with each other.
“I learnt how to work internationally to solve a real-life business issue, how to work online more efficiently, how to navigate different time zones within the team and with the client and how to adapt the skills and teamwork from TE when working with new people”
Many clients were really impressed with the results and offered to continue working with the students after the challenge. That is the best indicator! We look forward to Global Business Challenge 2024!
About BA(Hons) Business (Team Entrepreneurship)
BA(Hons) Business (Team Entrepreneurship) is an entrepreneurship and business studies degrees by UWE Bristol that has 100% positive professional outcomes (all graduates either establish their own company, go to employment or to further studies).
During their three years, the students develop the skills, creativity, confidence and knowledge to work well in any work environment, preparing them for the world of work as entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs or teampreneurs. You can learn more about the degree by continuing to browse this website using the navigator menu above.
About Global Business Challenge
Global Business Challenge is a challenge for globally thinking entrepreneurial students. Annually, 100-200 students from several countries gather together for the Global Business Challenge – to work together in cross-cultural teams, solving challenges that globally thinking organisations have given them. The students learn skills about cross-cultural and team working as well as problem solving and business-to-business skills.
At BA(Hons) Business (Team Entrepreneurship), we’ve been co-creating the Global Business Challenge since its inception in 2020. We organised the Global Business Challenge 2023 in partnership with Aston Team Academy / Aston Business School (UK), Southern New Hampshire University (USA), Universidad Espiritu Santo (Ecuador), Proakatemia / TAMK (Finland), The Evergreen State College(USA), Team Academy Tanzania / University of Iringa (Tanzania), Salford Business School / University of Salford (UK), Liverpool John Moores University (UK), Vilnius Business College (Lithuania), Hochschule Bremerhaven (Germany), University of Debrecen (Hungary) and BA(Hons) Sports Business and Entrepreneurship / Robins Foundation / UWE Bristol (UK).