Hyundai Motor Company visits SolBridge International School of Business

On December 28, 2011 two members of the Human Resources Team of Hyundai Motors came to visit

SolBridge. They sat in on two lectures: Human Resources Management taught by Abir Clark from

Valparaiso University, Indiana and International Corporate Finance by Professor Prasad Padmanabhan

from St, Mary’s University, San Antonia, Texas who is a Professor of Finance and Myra Stafford Pryor Chair

of Free Enterprise (tenured) and Sam Walton Fellow. These representatives wanted to obtain a first hand

experience of the classroom lectures. To their surprise and satisfaction the diversity of students attending

the classes was noticeable and created a true multicultural environment that allows students to

experience a cross cultural experience since they need to work in teams, and solve problems together

with a desired outcome.

About 20% of the student population at SolBridge are Korean students whose background is as diverse

as they are. Some have completed high school overseas giving them a global mindset as well as fluency

in English while others have the same fluency in English achieved through hard work by attending

Foreign Language High Schools dispersed throughout Korea. The HR team from Hyundai Motors met

with the Korean students in a session to find out directly from these students about their interests, their

passion and the type of education they are receiving at SolBridge. In June 2012, SolBridge will graduate

the first group of Korean students with a Bachelor of Business Administration since this business school

opened its doors in 2007.