Karl Kur­bel au­thored sev­er­al books such as “The Mak­ing of In­form­a­tion Sys­tems – Soft­ware En­gin­eer­ing and Man­age­ment in a Glob­al­ized World” (Spring­er 2008). His re­search and teach­ing in­clude tech­no­logy-re­lated glob­al­iz­a­tion top­ics. Tak­ing in­to ac­count that or­gan­iz­a­tions have been in­creas­ingly run­ning their busi­ness pro­cesses across bor­ders and con­tin­ents, he in­vest­ig­ated typ­ic­al pro­cure­ment pro­cesses in the 1990s already in a pro­ject on “Glob­al Sourcing” fun­ded by DFG. The glob­al­iz­a­tion of in­form­a­tion tech­no­logy (as poin­ted out by Thomas Fried­man in his book “The World is Flat”) stim­u­lated his re­search in “Glob­al IT” and also a co­oper­a­tion pro­ject with lead­ing IT firms in In­dia. With­in this co­oper­a­tion, Ger­man stu­dents are sent to In­dia to do an in­tern­ship with one of these glob­al play­ers (www.vibe-in­tern­ships.com). Karl Kur­bel ini­ti­ated and heads a cross-bor­der cross-con­tin­ent Eng­lish lan­guage mas­ters's pro­gram (www.vg-u.de). This pro­gram is com­pletely In­ter­net based and has been run­ning for 10 years. Today, stu­dents in 20 across the world are en­rolled in the pro­gram. The re­search around the de­vel­op­ment of this in­nov­at­ive pro­gram was fun­ded by BMBF with­in the “New Me­dia in High­er Edu­ca­tion” ini­ti­at­ive, lead­ing to a large num­ber of pub­lic­a­tions on e-learn­ing across long dis­tances and tech­no­lo­gic­al bar­ri­ers.