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The NASBITE CGBP provides a benchmark for competency in global commerce. The CGBP designation demonstrates an individual's ability to conduct global business including Global Business Management, Global Marketing, Supply Chain Management, and Trade Finance. For candidates experienced in international trade, the certification confirms that knowledge. For candidates just beginning, it establishes a professional development goal to ensure a full understanding of the profession. For companies, it assures that employees are able to practice global business at the professional level required in today's competitive environment. Location:
March 2008
Global Business Forum: Spring quarter
March 31, 2008 -
May 19, 2008
- University of Washington
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Spring quarter speakers will focus on business and sustainability. Location: UW Seattle campus
The main objective of the PDIB Mercosur program is to raise US business professional and faculty awareness of the social, political, economic, and business environments that exist in South America. Topics include national economic reforms and adjustments, the opening of markets to the global economy, regional integration as a basis for global competition, the impact of these domestic changes on commerce with the US, and both regional and country specific business practices. The program in Brazil, Argentina and Chile will include meetings with business faculty from leading academic institutions, business executives from multinational companies, and government officials. It will also include cultural events and city tours. Location: Brazil, Argentina and Chile
Student Study Tour
May 12-25, 2008
- University of Colorado at Denver
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This intensive field study, Windows on China, to Beijng, Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai will provide business and liberal arts students with a general introduction to Chinese history and an overview of modern Chinese business, political and cultural environments. The course offers a combination of lectures and field trips. Students will be briefed by US and Chinese scholars and journalists on various political, economic and business issues of China today; visit business operations to study US-China joint venture operations and other foreign investment companies; and visit cultural and historical sites to understand the framework of today’s China. Classes will be held at the International College – Beijing at China Agriculture University. The required textbook is China: A New History, 2nd Edition, Harvard University Press, 2006 by John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman. Location: China
Professor David M. Lampton is Dean of Faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies and Director of China Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and was former President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He consults with government, foundations, and businesses, including the law firm of Akin Gump where he is senior international advisor on China. Professor Lampton has written and edited many books and articles, including: Same Bed, Different Drams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000, and The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Age of Reform (editor). Lampton will talk about his just-published book entitled: The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Minds. This book addresses the following issues, among which are: How have Chinese viewed national power throughout their history? What is the dominant conception of comprehensive national power and national strategy today in China? How is China’s power along different dimensions changing? And, what may all this mean for the world and America as we look ahead? Location: University of Washington, Communications 120
The International Economic Summit program is a world trade simulation for high school students, which teaches fundamental economic concepts within the context of international trade. The curriculum offered to high school economics teachers is a thirteen-lesson program designed around core standardized economics content with a focus on the complexities of trade and globalization. Its experience-based approach allows teachers and students to actively participate in the program by simulating trade activities and exercises. Location: SDSU Montezuma Hall
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. Location: Michigan State 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. Location: The George Washington University
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. Location: University of Memphis
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. Location: Columbia, SC
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. Location: Columbia, SC
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. Location: Spain
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. Location: Columbia University, New York
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.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
International Conference on Business Chinese
June 26-29, 2008
- University of Florida
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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 (一桥大学) 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.
Location: Shanghai, China
SDSU's LARC Summer Institute "Teaching Languages in the Digital Age" addresses the needs and concerns of digital literacy for language teachers. We remember that you are a language teacher, and not a programmer. This institute will help you integrate web technology in your curriculum. It is designed for teachers who want to know what tools to use and how to use them for adding content online and make it accessible for students.
Location: San Diego, California
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