CIBERweb Newsletter

Jun 1, 2008 2008 Business Language Research and Teaching Grants - University of Kansas
Faculty, graduate students, and language professionals are invited to apply for the 2008 BLRT Grants. One award will be made in the following categories: $5,000 grant to tenured faculty or tenure track $2,500 grant to a Ph.D. candidate $2500 grant for research on business language pedagogy

Jun 2, 2008 Advanced International Business Institute for Community College Faculty - Michigan State University
The Advanced International Business Institute (AIBI) for Community College Faculty is a unique faculty development program. It is designed for community college faculty who have previously attended international business faculty development workshops, seminars, or conferences, as well as faculty who bring previous international business experience to their classrooms, and international business program administrators.

Topics to be covered in the AIBI include: classroom tools and course development, developing and maintaining IB programs, and best practices in IB integration. The AIBI will also offer small group breakout sessions for faculty to tackle and resolve their own IB challenges and concerns.

Jun 2, 2008 Faculty Development in International Entrepreneurship - University of Colorado at Denver
The Faculty Development in International Entrepreneurship (FDIE) will be held in Denver, Colorado. It is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBERs) at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Indiana University and Brigham Young University. For further information please email manuel.serapio@cudenver.edu or call 303-556-4738.

Jun 3, 2008 Succeeding in Emerging and Developing Markets: Understanding How Institutions Impact Firms & Managers (FDIB) - George Washington University
The majority of traditional Western business curriculum is founded on theory and research generated in developed countries, where political, economic, legal, and social institutions generally are formalized, well-developed, and stable. But MNCs increasingly are setting their sights on developing and emerging countries for future growth potential, where the institutional context is quite different. This workshop is designed to equip international business educators with an in-depth understanding of how institutions shape the strategies that firms employ and the actions that managers take in emerging and developing countries. Key topics include corruption, political risk, social divisions, non-governmental organizations, social entrepreneurs, diaspora communities. Workshop speakers will include representatives from institutions such as the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and USAID. Please contact Alexis Gaul at agaul@gwu.edu or (202) 994-3098 for more information about the workshop.

Jun 5, 2008 Five FDIB-Globalization Seminars: Intro to Int'l Business, Int'l Finance, Global Supply Chain Management, Int'l Management, and Int'l Marketing - University of Memphis
The Globalization Seminars are designed to help business faculty bring international context into the classroom and to expand teaching and research skills. Each Seminar is built around a comprehensive "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. The FIVE seminars are held concurrently; therefore, each participant may select one seminar to attend. Also, three half-day workshops are available: Research, Teaching, and Grant Opportunities.

Jun 5, 2008 Study Abroad: Africa (IBUS 444) - University of South Carolina
A student study-abroad program in Summer Session One, led by Professor Robert Rolfe. Trip will include business and cultural visits in South Africa, Swaziland, and Mozambique.

Jun 6, 2008 World Trade Association of Utah Annual Golf Tournament - Brigham Young University
Annual Golf Tournament to benefit International Business students in Utah.

Jun 8, 2008 19th Annual Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) Program - Spanish Workshop - University of South Carolina
The workshop is designed for college and university professors of Spanish who are interested in or already offering courses in business Spanish at the advance-intermediate and advanced levels. It is also intended to provide an understanding of the field of international business, a source of employment for many students of foreign languages. Participants will discover new practices and resources to improve their abilities as instructors in the ever-evolving international business environment. The University of South Carolina CIBER offers fourteen (14) $500 scholarships on a first-come, first-served basis to help defray the cost of attendance.

Jun 8, 2008 20th Annual Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) Program - University of South Carolina
The 20th annual FDIB seminar series conducted by the University of South Carolina to internationize 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 Accounting, 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. The University of South Carolina CIBER provides a total of $20K in scholarships to help defray the cost of attendance.

Jun 8, 2008 Bringing the World to Your Students, Pedagogy in International Business - Indiana University
This is an exciting opportunity to learn and discuss new methods of teaching International Business in the classroom. Our high-energy, experienced experts will provide hands-on, interactive tools to add new methods to your teaching portfolio.

Jun 10, 2008 Detroit Economic Club: A Conversation with Michael Dell - Michigan State University
Michael Dell, born in February 1965, is the chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of Dell, the company he founded in 1984 with $1,000 and an unprecedented idea - to build relationships directly with customers. In 1992, Mr. Dell became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500.

Mr. Dell serves on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the executive committee of the International Business Council and is a member of the U.S. Business Council. Mr. Dell also serves on the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Technology CEO Council and the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

Jun 11, 2008 Coface North American 2008 Coface Country Risk Conference - Michigan State University
Meeting Agenda * Latin America: Ex-Im Bank Country Risk Outlook * Russia: Perspectives on Russian Risk Assessment * India: Business Climate * United States: Recovery or Decline * Coface Outlook and Ratings

Jun 14, 2008 American Marketing Association Marketing and Entrepreneurship SIG International Doctoral Consortium - Michigan State University
This special interest group of the AMA has a long history of partnership with the annual UIC Marketing and Entrepreneurship Research Symposium. At this year's Research Symposium, we are instituting a consortium for doctoral students to encourage and guide students who are considering or are researching the intersecting domains of marketing and entrepreneurship.

Doctoral students selected for the consortium will have their Symposium fees waived, have complimentary meals during the official portion of the Consortium and the Symposium, and have a portion of their hotel expenses subsidized.

Jun 15, 2008 9th Annual Spanish for Business - Faculty Development Program in SPAIN - Florida International University
The Ninth Annual Spanish Language Faculty Development Program - Teaching Spanish for Business: A Global Approach is designed for Spanish professors. The program will provide Spanish language faculty with knowledge about business terminology, the methodology of teaching Spanish for Business, information about the business world in Spain and its relationship to the European Union. FIU CIBER in cooperation with UNED, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, invite Spanish language faculty to join their colleagues from around the nation for an exciting and rewarding one week workshop on Business Spanish to be held in Spain.

Jun 18, 2008 CIMaR 2008 Annual Conference - Michigan State University
The CIMaR 2008 Conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18-21 June, 2008. It will be hosted by NUPIN, the Center for Research on the Internationalization of the Firm at the Coppead Graduate School of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and by IAG, the Business School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Jun 21, 2008 Annual Asia Field Study - University of Hawaii at Manoa
This annual 6-week course and study tour provides a unique opportunity for in-depth analysis and firsthand observation of the real world of Asian business. Taken to assembly lines and executive boardrooms of companies and briefed by experts in three countries under the guidance of an experienced professor, participants will bridge the gap between academic theory and the dynamic reality of modern business practices.

Jun 21, 2008 Practicing Leadership in a Political Environment - University of Florida
The PURC Leadership Workshop will use the "field laboratory" method of examining participants' own leadership challenges. Most learning will take place in teams and will use industry-specific cases and scenarios as teaching points. Instructors will present brief "tool kit" sessions followed by intensive team application exercises and workshop-wide presentations by the teams.

Jun 23, 2008 Summer Institute For Teaching A Second Language For Business Communication - University of Pennsylvania
Designed primarily for secondary and post-secondary language educators, this program provides an overview of basic business concepts, combined with discussions of current issues in language-teaching methodology and curriculum design. The institute is team-taught by Mr. Carlos Menendez, a Wharton/Lauder graduate, and Dr. Cheri Micheau of Penn's Graduate School of Education. Participants work on group projects in which they design curriculum modules that apply the concepts addressed during the program. After the Institute, participants receive a compilation of all the projects to enable them to adapt and use the modules in their own classroom situations. This year's participants will also have the opportunity to participate in a partnership program with the Wharton School and Penn's Graduate School of Education. The dual Teaching Language for Business Communication Certificate prepares graduates to develop and teach courses in business language.

Jun 23, 2008 Detroit Economic Club: Energy: The Next U.S. Challenge - Michigan State University
Michael G. Morris, chairman, president and chief executive officer of American Electric Power Co., Inc., will speak.

Jun 23, 2008 2008 Community College Workshop on International Business Education - Columbia University
This Institute has been designed by leading community college and university faculty to assist instructors who want to internationalize their business courses and curriculum. The program provides resources, class materials, and a forum to discuss teaching in a rapidly globalizing educational environment. Although the conference organizers anticipate that most participants will come from the Northeastern United States, registration is open to any instructor who might find the discussions and resources useful to their efforts in curriculum development. Speakers will come from the host institutions listed above. Housing will be single occupancy in Columbia University dormitory rooms. The registration fee of $450 includes housing, materials for the conference, and meals listed below, but does not include transportation costs.

Jun 26, 2008 International Conference on Business Chinese - University of Florida
The purpose of the conference is to promote international cooperation in the teaching and research of business Chinese. Under the main theme of the conference "Contemporary Linguistic Theory and the Teaching of Business Chinese", there are three sub-themes: "Sociolinguistics", "the Teaching of Business Chinese" and "the Linguistic Study of Chinese." Participants of the conference are mostly by invitation, but submission of abstracts for a poster session by other scholars is also welcome. All papers presented at the conference will be screened by an independent panel for publication in the proceedings. The full text of each paper submitted for publication should be no longer than 10,000 Chinese characters or 10 pages in English. The conference is jointly sponsored by the College of International Cultural Exchange, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the Hitotsubashi University (????) in Japan and the University of Florida in the U.S. and is organized by the College of International Exchange and the Center for Business Chinese Research of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Jun 26, 2008 2008 UW Doctoral Workshop - University of Washington
The Doctoral Internationalization Consortia are a series of consortia in the functional areas of business. The purpose of these consortia is to provide doctoral students in all functional areas of business an international perspective regarding the major issues and research questions that are related to their disciplines. The consortia will bring doctoral students together with prominent faculty whose traditional areas or research have not been international in scope, but who have recently internationalized their work. Students will attend talks conducted by faculty members as well as participate in group discussion sessions in which international research agendas are developed.

Jun 30, 2008 Academy of International Business (AIB) 2008 Annual Conference - Michigan State University
The 2008 meeting will be held in Milan, Italy, June 30- July 3, 2008. The host school is the Bocconi University Strategic Management Institute. More information will be posted as details are finalized. We invite all of our members to join us in 2008 in Milan!