The Globalizing Business Schools (GBS) project is designed to infuse understanding and the importance of international and interdisciplinary business education by equipping faculty with the pedagogical tools, knowledge, and experiences to incorporate international content into existing business courses and/or develop new courses. A integral component of the program is the one-on-one assistance provided by the sponsoring CIBERs to their respective HBCU in facilitating the implementation of international business education programs and in acquiring federal grant funds to support these efforts.

Gunnar Oom is State Secretary to Minister for Trade Ewa Björling. He has served in this position with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since November 2010. Prior to his appointment, he served as Mayor and Chairman of the Municipality Board of Danderyd, Sweden from 2003-2010. Mr. Oom has held a number of positions within the private sector in Sweden, including Business Developer and Chief Investment Manager, with NCC BOT; Director, Project Finance, with Vattenfall AB; Managing Director, Idhammar System; and Managing Director, SveaBanken. He speaks English, German and Russian. 

International partnership meetings in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Italy.

This program showcases sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in Denmark and Sweden.  Scandinavian countries have demonstrated the strongest and most balanced macro-economic, environmental and societal performances in the world.  Scandinavian companies are disproportionately well represented in the major sustainability and CSR performance indicators.  And scholars from this region have made significant contributions to the concepts of sustainability, CSR and stakeholder theories.

The program will be conducted in Copenhagen, Denmark and Gothenburg, Sweden.  We invite faculty, private-sector professionals, and representatives from government and non-governmental organizations to participate.

PDIB Scandinavia features visits to world-leading corporations like IKEA, Maersk, Novozymes, and Volvo, and a conference on sustainability at Copenhagen Business School.

The Academy of International Business (AIB) is the leading association of scholars and specialists in the field of international business.

The Internationalizing Doctoral Education in Business (IDEB) conference is targeted towards first and second year business PhD students interested in learning about adding an international dimension to their work. 

IDEB is a consortium of 11 top business schools who have Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBERs).

Topics to be covered include:

-Research Methodologies Applied to an International Context, Succeeding in your Academic Career in a Business School

-The Role of Internationalization

-Getting Internationally Focused Research Published: What does it Take?

-Teaching Strategies for International Business

-And more..

The webinar will explore methods of integrating global virtual teamwork into the business school curriculum and offer tips for planning for - and achieving - outcomes as good, if not better, than those we achieve in face to face teams.  Global consulting projects , chiefly the Global Business Project course offered collaboratively by 15 US and international business schools, will serve as the base for this webinar, but the "lessons learned" and "how to" will be applicable to a wide array of global business courses employing virtual teamwork.

This webinar is intended for US and international faculty who either engage themselves in geographically dispersed teams and/or run courses in which students work in virtual teams.

4:15-5:15 pm EST

Mailing and distribution of the annual CIBER FDIB postcard

The FDIB seminar series conducted by the University of South Carolina to internationalize business school faculty, preparing them to teach international business courses, will be "on the road" in August 2013.  In association with Northeastern University in Shenyang, China, the Darla Moore School of Business will offer two seminars - International Management and Global Operations and Supply-Chain Management - to local business faculty in Shenyang, China. Each of the 40+ participants will spend a  week with two of the top faculty in the international business field (Tatiana Kostova and Manoj Malhotra) developing both professional knowledge about the particular topic and the pedagogical skills that will enhance teaching of the subject. 

Technical assistance workshop 

Annual CIBER Directors Meeting

The conference focuses on forging private-public and industry-university partnerships in Global Supply Chain Management and related areas, with special emphasis on Automotive, Healthcare, Green Business and Sustainability industries. Location: The Henry, 300 Town Center Drive, Dearborn, MI (http://www.behenry.com/)

An overseas faculty development in international business program to the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) to include Cairo, Egypt and Dubai & Sharjah, UAE, with academic and business visits to the American University in Cairo, the American University in Sharjah, Cairo's Smart Village, Dubai's business centers, and opportunities to visit the cultural and historical sites of the great pyramids, Islamic and Coptic business and cultural centers, and  other aspects of the MENA region.

Annual NASBITE International Conference, to be held in Memphis, TN, April 2-4, 2014 at the Peabody Hotel.

Annual CIBER Associate Directors Meeting, hosted by the BYU CIBER in Park City, Utah, April 22-24, 2014, in conjunction with the Annual CIBER Business Language Conference, April 24-26, 2014.

The 8th annual FDIB-Africa program, to be conducted in Kenya and Tanzania, will once again combine over two dozen business visits, cultural experiences and academic visits and lectures over 13 days, to initiate and/or enhance faculty awareness and insight in the business, academic and cultural world of sub-Saharan Africa.