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. 

For much of the past two decades, accounts of economic and political life in “Europe” focused primarily on developments and trends in European Union member states. However, the recent crisis in the EU and the apparent slowing of the EU enlargement process has increased interest in the growing potential of other, non-EU, economic and political centers – specifically Russia and Turkey. This faculty development in international business (FDIB) program offers business faculty exciting opportunities to explore the business and politics of “the other Europe” through a multicultural trip directed by Dr. Andrew Konitzer.

Program participants will visit Moscow and Samara in Russia, and Istanbul in Turkey. The participants will develop an understanding of regional business, economic and political issues in these countries and how they relate to regional and global markets. The trip will involve lectures on economic, business and political trends, group seminars, company and governmental visits.
 

Sponsorship available for a regional faculty member to participate in a Carlson School short-term education abroad program in China. Course is a global business practicum at the MBA level. Apply by February 1, 2013. More info - http://carlson/ciber/programs/index.html. 

The NAFSA Annual Conference brings together more than 8,500 professionals in the field of international education for five packed days of training workshops, educational sessions, networking opportunities, and special events.

The 10th Biennial International Business Institute for Community College Faculty is a unique professional development program designed specifically for community and technical college faculty. The aim of the Institute is to provide participants with the knowledge, experience and resources they need to internationalize general business courses and/or develop specialized international business courses at the two-year college level.

Sponsorship available for a regional faculty member to participate in a Carlson School short-term education abroad program in Austria and Russia. Course is a global business practicum at the MBA level. Apply by February 1, 2013. More info - http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/ciber/programs/index.html

Sponsorship available to attend the 10th Biennial International Business Institute for Community College Faculty. Institute held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Apply to the University of Minnesota CIBER by February 1, 2013. More info - http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/ciber/programs/index.html

The 25th annual FDIB seminar series conducted by the University of South Carolina to internationalize business school faculty, preparing them to teach international business courses. Each participant chooses one of six concurrent seminars (Survey of International Business, International Management, International Marketing, International Negotiations, International Financial Management or Global Operations and Supply-Chain Management) and spends a week with some of the top faculty in the international business field developing both professional knowledge about the particular topic and the pedagogical skills that will enhance teaching of the subject.  Also available as oned-day seminar is Sustainable Enterprise and Development, as well as three optional one-hour bonus (free) sessions on Emerging Markets in China, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The University of South Carolina CIBER provides 30 $500 scholarships on a first-come, first-served bases to help defray the cost of attendance.

The Globalization Seminars are designed to help business faculty bring international context into the classroom and to expand teaching and research skills. Each globalization seminar is built around a compreensive coursepack to support and demonstrate the globalization of business. These course materials will be available to seminar participants: course outlines, case studies, powerpoint slides, reference materials, and experiential exercises.

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 Summer Institute for Learning a Second Language for Business Communication is designed primarily for secondary and post-secondary language educators. This program includes an overview of basic business fundamentals, combined with discussion of current issues in language-teaching methodology and curriculum design. Participants work on group projects in which they design curriculum modules that apply the concepts addressed during the program.  Participants who are Pennsylvania or New Jersey public school teachers are eligible to receive continuing-education credit.

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.

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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. 

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/)