The capstone of Goizueta Business School's Advanced Leadership Academy (GALA) at Emory University is a team-building exercise in the British Virgin Islands. Second-year MBA students embark on a five-day sailing excursion, encountering unpredictable weather, sea sickness, and varying levels of acumen on the high seas. Gehrung Associates pitched GALA as an example of "extreme MBA" programs that prepare future leaders how to deal with uncertainty and volatile situations. As a result, the AACSB magazine BizEd ran a feature story, with color photos from one of the Goizueta trips.
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