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Companies on the path to a greener supply chain are limited by the absence of metrics that can be used to quantify their progress. The Third Annual Green Supply Chain Forum hosted by Florida International University will invite experts in industry and government to help you determine ways to quantify your efforts.
Being green is changing from a competitive advantage to a must in the current environment. Legislation and regulations are moving towards stricter guidelines every day. It is essential that companies learn what regulations will require change in their industry, and how it will be measured. Join us, and learn from the experts, about what to expect.
The Forum will focus on four core areas:
Technology and the Green Supply Chain
Understanding the future of regulations
What is the market demanding?
Framework for ranking performance
Location: Miami, Florida
A Forum: The Relevance of Chinese Economic Development
March 4-5, 2010
- Purdue University
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China has become an increasingly important economic power in the world. There are many areas that U.S. and China need to work together to ensure a stable and growing world economy. Investigating and learning Chinese economy and its relationship with U.S. are called upon for scholars and educators. We will organize a conference on March 4-5, 2010 to provide an information exchange platform for discovery and learning in this field. Location: West Lafayette, IN
The CIBER Business Language Conference provides the opportunity for teachers, scholars, policy makers and business leaders to discuss business language education. The conference responds to the overarching mission of the U.S. Department of Education’s CIBER grant program to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. business globally by linking the human capital and information needs of the U.S. business community with the international education, language training, and research capacity of universities across the United States.
The conference ties into the larger national discourse about the ways that language education must keep pace and meet future challenges for applied language programs in light of research, trends, and needs of the changing economic environment.
Through the lens of literacy as a critical construct in the fields of second language acquisition and education, participants will be invited to share ideas and charter new directions for language and cross-cultural training. The notion of literacy frames the discussion of cross-cultural training as situating appropriate understandings and meanings in proper contexts. Location: Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania
The 2010 Consortium for International Marketing Research (CIMaR) Conference will take place in Oslo, Norway May 26-29. BI Norwegian School of Management as organizer of the 18th conference takes the relay of Beijing (2009), and Rio di Janeiro (2008). Location: Oslo, Norway
This cross-disciplinary program will facilitate research related to Institutions & Development from the perspective of a broad range of social sciences. Doctoral students selected for the summer 2010 SDI will:
* Work with a specialist in their chosen field.
* Form a community of scholars with intersecting interests.
* Gain access to resources found only in Washington, DC.
* Participate in research seminars and brown bag lunches.
* Submit their work to be published in a top journal in their field.
The program is open to doctoral students in any discipline, enrolled in U.S. universities, with an interest in the underlying theme of Institutions & Development. The application deadline is January 22, 2010. Location: The George Washington University, DC
A Research Symposium that Rotates Annually Around the World: Copenhagen Business School, Michigan State University, and University of New South Wales. GMARS aims to promote a "global village" of management accounting research by bringing together a diverse set of the highest-quality research papers, plenary speakers, and researchers from around the world. GMARS will provide a broader appreciation and understanding of the many theoretical perspectives and research methods that are used to study management-accounting practices. Location: East Lansing, MI, USA
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 22th 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 Summer Institute for Teaching 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. 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.
Participants who are Pennsylvania or New Jersey public school teachers are eligible to receive continuing-education credit. Location: Lauder Institute, Lauder-Fischer Hall, University of Pennsylvania
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