THE TREBLE PROGRAM

— formerly known as GLOBE

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The TREBLE program is an elite undergraduate business program that facilitates studies for 54 top-performing students at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The program aims at providing students with strong international business sense, international perspective and global mind-sets.

 

Each institution selects 18 top-performing students every year to participate. A demanding and extensive application and interview process ensures that an academically excellent and experienced cohort is selected.

 

As of Spring 2024, 17 cohorts have graduated from the program, which was known as GLOBE before being renamed to TREBLE.​​​

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Academic Excellence in a Collaborative Environment

Upon acceptance to the program, students live, study and travel together for three semesters as an international cohort. This makes TREBLE a truly experiential learning journey with intense international exposure.

 

Students study one semester at each university, beginning in the fall semester at UNC and graduating from the program at CBS in the spring semester of the following year. The students then return to their respective home institutions to finish their degrees.

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Courses are offered exclusively to GLOBE students at each university. These reflect relevant business aspects from each continent. At CBS, students gain an understanding of corporate integration within the European Union. In Singapore, students are taught the dynamics of Asian business and at UNC, students actively engage in the processes of entrepreneurial ventures.

 

In-class learning is complemented by study trips that support the internationally integrated business curriculum. These facilitate understanding of regional business practices. The study trips offer students a unique opportunity to gain first hand experience of foreign business operations and interact with business professionals from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.

 

The program does not only offer intense academic learning, but gives students the opportunity to study in a collaborative and highly ambitious learning environment. The program allows for cultural immersion and a strong global alumni network, which benefits students in their future endeavours.

 

Top Partner Schools

The GLOBE program is a partnership between three top international business schools from different continents. In 2021, Copenhagen Business School was ranked the 5th best business school in the world, Singapore Management University was ranked the 13th best university in Asia, and the University of North Carolina, home to the renowned Kenan-Flagler School of Business, was ranked the 4th best public university in the USA in 2024. 

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New Program Sequencing 

Beginning with the first TREBLE cohort

Program Semester 1 (fall): The University of North Carolina

Program Semester 2 (spring): Singapore Management University

Program Semester 3 (fall): Copenhagen Business School

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Curriculum Changes

The partner schools made a few curricular changes.

 

UNC​

• Launched a Leading and Managing course that introduces students to managing organizations, examining the impact of various factors on performance and attitudes, covering topics such as leadership, motivation, group development, empowerment, conflict, culture, structure, stress, innovation, and change.

• UNC launched a Negotiations course that improves skills in all aspects of negotiation, including preparation, proposing settlements, and predicting and influencing others' arguments.

 

SMU

• TBA

 

CBS

• Launched a new edition of the Finance and Financial Institutions in Society course, which aims to provide students with a contextual and critical understanding of finance and financial institutions, considering economic, political, social, and cultural developments in society as well as the unique characteristics of institutions, markets, and organizations.

• Developed a new capstone project course called The Nature of Capitalism, which aims to give students an understanding of national capitalism and institutional arrangements, enabling them to explain social phenomena, make policy predictions, and evaluate business strategy and social policy.