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What Online MBA Programs are Doing to Prepare Students to Work Effectively in Virtual Teams

Sharon M. Borowicz, Ph.D.
Benedictine University
Lisle, Illinois
sborowicz@ben.edu

Modern organizations are continually turning to technology to maximize performance, expand into the global marketplace and to bring the best and brightest together to support product innovations. Virtual teams offer organizations low-cost, high-impact solutions to complex organizational problems. An estimated 8.4 million employees are members of corporate virtual teams. This is perhaps one of the largest, unprecedented changes that managers have faced in the last fifty years. Unfortunately, evidence increasingly suggests virtual teams fail more often than they succeed. This paper presents findings regarding trends in high-performing virtual teams in an MBA program, focusing on communication and how relationships are established in high-performing teams.
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