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FOX STUDENTS TRAVEL TO INDIA AFTER TERROR ATTACKS

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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) & Institute of Global Management Studies (IGMS)

GLOBALP E R S P E C T I V E SA Newsletter Published by The Fox School’s Temple CIBER and Institute of Global Management Studies

U.S. NEWS & WORLDREPORT RANKS FOXUNDERGRADUATE IBPROGRAM IN TOP 10,GRADUATE IN TOP 20In its 2009 rankings, for the fifth year ina row, U.S. News & World Report rankedthe undergraduate International Business(IB) program of Temple University’s FoxSchool of Business among the Top 10programs in the U.S. The undergraduateprogram is ranked No. 7. In addition, theFox School’s graduate program ranked inthe Top 20.

Fox’s International Business undergradu-ate program focuses on what it takes forits graduates to succeed in the globalmarketplace. One of the program’sstrengths is that students must demon-strate foreign language proficiency at afourth-semester level.

“Our globally competent students areaware of the dynamics of a globalizedeconomy and its impact on businessfunctions in domestic and internationalcompanies. Students also learn about theinteractions between international rela-tions and international business, and therole played by international companies inglobal trade and commerce,” said ArvindPhatak, Laura H. Carnell Professor of

Continued on page 4Last fall, a group of Temple students, facul-ty and administration from the Fox Schoolof Business prepared for the trip of a life-time to India, sponsored by Temple’s Centerfor International Business Education andResearch (CIBER). Then the unexpectedhappened. From Nov. 26 to Nov. 29, 2008,

the city of Mumbai, India was hit by a seriesof coordinated terrorist attacks, whichkilled over 150 people.

Kim Cahill, director of Temple CIBER andorganizer of the trip, immediately contacted

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TEMPLE STUDENTS AND FACULTYEXPERIENCE “DESTINATION INDIA”POST-TERROR ATTACKS

As part of “Destination India,” Fox students attended Mumbai’s Welingkar Institutefor lectures and visited India’s most notable cultural sites.

FOX’S GLOBAL MANAGEMENT GRADUATE PROGRAM RANKED IN TOP 15 IN NATION

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Rebecca Davis, a summa cum laude alumnusof Temple University’s Fox School of Businessentrepreneurship program, tells a success storyof translating business to art and art to philan-thropy. A veteran of 13 years of professionaldance training before arriving at Temple, shefounded Rebecca Davis Dance Company inCenter City upon graduating and has sincetraveled the world in hopes of spreading herlove for the art. Davis says her experiences atFox aided in her decision to want to help othersand, especially, teach others about dance.Below is an excerpt of her personal account ofa service trip to Bosnia:

There must be something very special aboutdance itself because word quickly spreadthroughout BrCko, Bosnia that anAmerican had come to teach jazz and ballet.Within a couple of weeks, my workshops hadgrown to about 20 to 30 kids, 99 percent ofwhom had never seen a professional modern,jazz or ballet performance, let alone taken aclass where they could actually learn how to dothe steps they “always see on YouTube.”

When I was working with Armela Mujanovic,a particularly committed 15-year-old, I askedhow long she had been dancing; she was sogood that everyone was impressed. She staredback at me for a moment. I thought she didn’tunderstand my very poor Bosnian languageuntil she said, “Well, I never had a dance classbefore you came.”

At the end of July, the students performedNas Svijet for the first time. To see howthese diverse kids had grown to becomepart of one ensemble, sharing a commonexperience, is the most rewarding momentof my teaching career yet.

The dancers themselves told our story whenthey stood together with Nikola, and hepopped the balloon representing zlo (evil).Imagine the power of a united youth whenending evil is the one thing they want tochange in the world.

After the show, Armela turned to me andsaid, “I never thought I could do this. Youbelieved in me. Thank you.” But now, as aninternational community, don’t we havethat responsibility to believe in each andevery Armela all over the world? n

FOX SCHOOL GRAD DOES MORE THAN BUSINESS IN BOSNIA

Rebecca Davis, Fox School alumna, listens to Bosnian dance students.

The Fox School’s graduate program forGlobal Management was ranked in the

Top 15 nationwidein a recent surveyby Entrepreneurmagazine and ThePrinceton Review.

Published in the April 2009 issue ofEntrepreneur magazine, The Princeton Reviewasked business students for their opinion onhow well their business school is preparingthem in six core business competencies.

The survey, ‘Student Opinion Honors forBusiness Schools,’ identifies institutionswhose students overwhelmingly agree that it

offers superlative preparation in six corebusiness competencies: accounting, finance,general management, global management,marketing and operations.

Fifteen schools in each category were selectedbased solely on surveys conducted by ThePrinceton Review and completed by more than19,000 current business school students.

For more information, visit: www.entrepre-neur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2009/april/200744.html n

STUDENTS RANK FOX TOP 15 INSURVEY BY ENTREPRENEUR AND THE PRINCETON REVIEW

GRADUATE STUDENTS DISCOVER THE GLOBAL BUSINESS WORLD

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In a student’s journey from the classroom tothe “real world,” hands-on experience pre-pares future workers for a new stage in lifethat can rarely be conveyed through teach-ings in a book. Theories learned in the class-room are applied to reality through MBAconsulting projects, which offer students theopportunity to work on a specific project foran established company. When such a pro-gram reaches across the globe to connectstudents to international companies andopportunities abroad, combining criticallanguages and virtual teaming, Temple refersto it as the Global Business Project (GBP).

Made possible for Fox students by TempleCIBER, the GBP is an intercollegiate MBAcourse merging the efforts of 10 differentCIBERs from across the country, includingColumbia, Duke, George Washington,Kansas, Maryland, Pittsburgh, San DiegoState, Purdue, Temple and UNC-ChapelHill. Admissions into the GBP are highlycompetitive, but accepted students aregiven the chance to travel abroad and workin intercollegiate teams with real issues fac-ing multi-national businesses and local

companies in emerging markets. Unlikeother international consulting projectcourses, the GBP asks students to applyboth cross-cultural awareness and foreignlanguage skills to produce strategic advicefor companies that is focused, compelling,and actionable.

The 2009 destination countries consisted ofBrazil, China, Japan and Poland, requiringat least one student per team to be fluent inPortuguese, Mandarin, Japanese and Polish,respectively. “My Japanese language andunderstanding of Japanese culture and busi-ness have been greatly improved during theproject,” said Xuan Zhang, a Fox ’09 alum-na with a master’s in finance, who wasassigned to Japan’s Kobe Institute of UrbanResearch. “Now, my language skills havereached the intermediate level and I amgoing to continue learning.”

Temple’s critical language program is basedon an “all majors welcome” policy, thus aid-ing students who are preparing to studyabroad, looking to meet their career goals orcollege program requirements, or merely

taking classes out of personal interest.Critical language classes help business stu-dents to prepare for the foreign business inter-actions expected from the GBP program.

In addition to language competence, theteams must jointly have experience with theindustry in the target country and the areasin which the project is based. Developingthe skills and overcoming the challengesassociated with virtual teaming, the studentgroups first work virtually for two monthsbefore traveling together to the target coun-try for two weeks.

Temple CIBER coordinated two consultingprojects in Japan under the leadership ofDr. Masaaki ‘Mike’ Kotabe with the KobeInstitute of Urban Research and GogyofukoCo., Ltd. The projects were lead by Dr. JeanWilcox, Fox School of Business, and Dr.Yoshinobu Sato, Kwansei GakuinUniversity, respectively.

Wilcox commented, “I was impressed withhow well the Kobe Urban Research teamworked together from the initial meeting inD.C. in March, through the virtual interfacefor the research phase, to the on the groundwork and presentation in Kobe. The teamhad a good balance of skills and utilizedeveryone’s talents. They did a lot of researchand developed some unique and viable ideasfor the Kobe Development project.”

Like all other Fox consulting projects, thegoal of the GBP is to provide MBA studentswith a unique hands-on opportunity todevelop critical business skills by workingwith established companies. However, it isthe exposure to the business cultures of for-eign countries and the critical language com-ponent that sets the GBP program apartfrom others and prepares globally competentstudents for the modern world of interna-tional business that will greet them uponcompletion of their program of study.

Four Fox students were selected to partici-pate in projects in China and Japan includ-ing Leichenzi Gao, Quiying Du, XuanZhang, and Shao Zhang. “It was one of themost impressive experiences in my businessschool life,” said Zhang. “Academically, I

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GLOBAL BUSINESS PROJECT: CONNECTING GRADUATESTUDENTS TO THE WORLD

The Global Business Project’s Kobe Team hones its research skills at the Guggenheim.The team consisted, from left to right, Wataru Honda of Kobe City Promotion Design,Daisy Xiang of Temple, Etsushi Kaneko of the University of Pittsburgh, KevinLeichner of Columbia University, Carol Haines of the University of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Kei Kuriki of Kobe University.

IB UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM RANKED AMONG TOP 10IN NATION, GRADUATE AMONG TOP 20

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“DESTINATION INDIA” continued from page 1

the dean, and together they formulated anappeal to the provost not to cancel the pro-gram, which was to begin on Jan. 2, 2009.

“I hate to see the terrorists win. They wouldlove for us to be scared and to stay away,” saidDean M. Moshe Porat in his letter to theprovost. “As we did post 9/11, we need tocontinue to live our lives and do the rightthing, albeit with heightened awareness ofour surroundings.” A leadership council inconjunction with international programmingmet and discussed the safety issues, as well ashow other universities with study abroad pro-grams in India were handling the situation.

Fortunately for those who had alreadyarranged to go, the trip remained scheduledas planned. Cahill attributes this largely tothe Welingkar Institute of Management,Temple’s partner on the ground, whoworked with the Fox School’s InternationalMBA students already in India. “The factthat they kept our students safe during theactual terrorist attacks made the leadershipfeel confident that we had somebody therethat was going to be taking care of us,” saidCahill. However, the situation did provoketwo students to drop from the program andleft others unsure.

Christine Galloway, a fourth-year marketingand advertising major, had always dreamedof traveling to India, but her parents becamewary of security measures. After researchingthe area and following the news, Gallowaydecided to follow through with her plan. “Iweighed my options and felt like it would bea very safe time to go,” she explained.

On Jan. 2, 2009, the group of 11, eight ofwhich were students, made the journey toIndia and were welcomed by unparalleledhospitality. “At no point did I ever feel anyhostility as an American,” said Cahill.

Although life had returned to normal forthe most part, the group still saw the aftereffects of the November attacks. Manybuildings and public places were flankedwith squads of police holding rifles, andsome hotels and historical sites requiredtourists to walk through metal detectorsbefore receiving a pat-down.

Drew Snyder, a senior international busi-ness administration and marketing major,

recalled the scene in Delhi, “You couldn’tstop at the India Gate. We wanted to getout and take pictures but the police wouldnot allow it.” Galloway could only remem-ber one time throughout the whole trip shedid not feel completely safe. “When wewere in Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi, therewas this loner walking around with a back-pack,” she said, remembering the uncer-tainty of the situation.

In South Mumbai, police barriers sur-rounded the Taj Hotel, which still hadmany boarded windows. Dr. Jean Wilcox,professor of international and entrepreneur-ial marketing at Temple, remembers, “Itook a picture of a billboard that was aboutgetting psychological counseling if you hadconcerns.” Despite these occurrences, thegroup was able to dine at the Leopold Caféin Mumbai, which had experienced anattack less than two months prior.

Aside from visiting India’s most notable cul-tural sites, the eight students on the tripattended the Welingkar Institute for lec-tures about international business, given bysome of India’s most qualified businessowners and entrepreneurs. The sessions

were generally followed by a hands-on expe-rience. For example, after a morning lessonon the Indian financial markets, studentsvisited the Bombay stock exchange to morefully grasp the ideas presented. The groupalso visited Siemens, the Indian car compa-ny Mahindra, Sula Vineyards and more.

“Business there is a mix of old and new,”said Dr. Wilcox, describing one highlyautomated and computerized factory,staffed by barefoot workers. According tofaculty and students, the opportunity toexperience business in a developing nationsuch as India, whose economy was basedprimarily on agriculture up until a few yearsago, was invaluable. “It’s truly a country ofcontrasts,” added Snyder.

The group arrived home safely on Jan. 17.“I think as a result of the attacks, the stu-dents appreciated the opportunity to bethere even more, because it came very closeto being canceled,” said Cahill, whoreturned to Temple with an important mes-sage. “We’re all vulnerable. You can’t fightterrorism one country alone. Collectively,we can be so much more effective.” n

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Management and International Business, executive director of Temple’s Institute forGlobal Management Studies (IGMS) and the Center for International BusinessEducation and Research (CIBER).

Fox’s undergraduate international business program is supported by its high-profileCIBER—one of only 31 such centers in the U.S., the high quality of its faculty, and theprestigious journal it produces, the Journal of International Management, edited byrenowned General and Strategic Management Professor Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe.

Other program highlights include an international business capstone course that enablesstudents to apply IB tools and methods to solve real business cases. Another notable feature of the Fox IB program is the School’s ongoing relationship with Dubai Women’sCollege (DWC) in which Fox students work in virtual teams with students from DWCon international business projects.

The IB program also offers two interdisciplinary certificates of specialization in AsianBusiness and Society, and in Latin American Studies and Spanish for Business. Studentscomplete coursework in area studies, a foreign language, and specialty IB coursework tofurther strengthen their knowledge of the increasingly interconnected world.

To increase students’ international exposure, IB majors are strongly encouraged to studyabroad. In addition to its campuses in Rome and Tokyo, Temple CIBER administers business programs in India, China, France, Ireland, Brazil, Africa, and Mexico, providingcustomized advising and financial assistance. n

FOX SCHOOL PARTNERS WITH UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE

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For the generation of Americans coming ofage now, some of the most significantopportunities—for work, investment,recreation and learning—will be global.

In 2006–07, more than 241,000 Americansstudied abroad, up from less than 100,000who did so a decade earlier. The Fox Schoolhas seen an 87 percent increase from 2001 to2008 in the number of undergraduates study-ing abroad. In 2001, 55 Fox School studentsstudied in six locations. With the growth ofoverseas partners and the addition of non-tra-ditional locations, 103 Fox School studentshave studied in 14 locations in 2008.

One of the main reasons for the increase isthe Fox School’s growth in overseas part-ners, facilitated by Temple CIBER.Currently, the Fox School has partnershipswith six universities in South America,Europe, Africa and Asia. The partnerschools include:

• Welingkar Institute of Management,(Mumbai, India)

• Quinn School of Business, UniversityCollege Dublin, (Dublin, Ireland)

• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo deMéxico (ITAM), (Mexico City, Mexico)

• Centre d’Etudes Franco-Americain deManagement (CEFAM), (Lyon, France)

• The American Business School Paris,Institut de Gestion Sociale, (Paris, France)

• Temple University Japan (TUJ), (Tokyo, Japan)

• Temple University Rome (TUR), (Rome, Italy)

• Federal University of Santa Catarina,(Santa Catarina, Brazil)

• Federal University of Parana, (Curitiba, Brazil)

• University of Vienna, (Vienna, Austria)

• University of Ghana, (Legon, Ghana)

Another significant reason for the increase inFox undergraduates studying abroad can betraced to Temple CIBER’s short-term studyabroad program. Developed in 2006, TempleCIBER created the first and only short-termstudy abroad program at Temple that takesplace during winter break. Students spendtwo weeks abroad in January and then spendthe spring semester developing a three-creditindependent research project.

“The interesting thing about this program is thatit draws an equal number of men and women, aswell as a number of students of color who arehighly under-represented in study abroad,” saidKim Cahill, director of Temple CIBER.

“The other wonderful outcome is that manyof these students then go on to study abroad

for a longer period of time, which most likelywould never have happened without the short-term abroad option,” Cahill continued.

The Fox School’s short-term study abroadpartnership—Destination India—is withthe Welingkar Institute of Management inMumbai, India. In 2010, the Fox Schoolwill offer Destination Ghana—taking stu-dents through the University of Ghana.

“Participating in Destination India has encour-aged my thirst for a global experience within myeducation, and this is exactly what I strive to incor-porate in my life on an everyday basis,” said JessicaReed, a Fox School undergraduate HumanResource Management and Philosophy majorfrom Anchorage, Alaska.

“I feel that study abroad is an experience thateveryone should go through because it devel-ops your character, exposes your intellectualsenses to a world outside the textbook, andprovides you with a competitive edge withinthe workplace and job market. Being able toposses a holistic outlook on business andpeople interactions gives an individual adeeper appreciation for diversity, culturecontributions, and global issues which affectall areas of our jobs,” Reed continued.

For more information on studying abroad, visit:http://sbm.temple.edu/ciber/abroad.htm or contact Kim Cahill at 215.204.3778. n

TEMPLE CIBER’S SHORT-TERM STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMREACHES UNDER-REPRESENTED STUDENTS

Marco Malandra lectures a class at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali,Columbia. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana is one other program partnering withFox at which students can earn two EMBA degrees.

In July of this year, the Fox School of Business and Pontificia UniversidadJaveriana Cali (PUJC), a premier education-al institution in Latin America, launched ajoint Executive MBA in Cali, Colombia.The program, which takes 16 months tocomplete, is similar in its curriculum struc-ture to the EMBA program that Fox deliversin Philadelphia, but incorporates faculty


FOX EXECUTIVEMBA PROGRAMEXPANDS TOLATIN AMERICA

U.S. AND GHANA STUDENTS EXPLORE FOREIGN ECONOMIC MARKETS

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Last February, 80 Executive MBA studentsfrom Ghana embarked on a northeastAmerican tour to five of the best businessschools in the country, including TempleUniversity’s Fox School of Business. Theprogram and lectures, organized by Fox’sInstitute of Global Management Studies(IGMS), were motivated by the students’ambition to network, learn about the glob-al market and experience other cultures.Inspired by the Ghanaian students’ experi-ence last year, a new group of EMBA stu-dents will be visiting Fox again in February2010 to participate in an IB Certificatecourse, and Fox undergraduate businessmajors will also have the opportunity tovisit Ghana during the 2010 DestinationGhana study abroad program.

Destination Ghana is being planned byTemple University’s Center forInternational Business Education andResearch (CIBER) housed in IGMS.According to Kenyalyn Makone-Anunda,assistant director of IGMS/CIBER,“Temple’s CIBER’s goal is the developmentof innovative exposure opportunities forstudents on issues and topics in internation-al business in relation to the emerging mar-kets of the world.” Ghana certainly has anemerging market as Makone-Anundadescribed, “Ghana, with its recent discoveryof oil, represents a less traveled, businessforward dynamic and innovative growthmarket in the Africa region.”

A native of Ghana, Dr. Paul K. Asabere, aprofessor of finance at Fox, has been instru-mental in establishing and building the rela-tionship between Fox and the University ofGhana Business School (UGBS), and also insetting up the corporate and site visits forDestination Ghana. “I am glad to be in posi-tion to facilitate this relationship betweenUGBS and IGMS/CIBER,” said Dr.Asabere. “I am also very exited about theDestination Ghana Program.”

Fox students will travel to Ghana, whichhas one of the fastest growing emergingeconomies on the African continent, fromJan. 2–17, 2010. Students will be exposedto Twi, the local language of Ghana, and

will earn three credits for an independentresearch study. During the trip, studentscan visit multinational and local companies,take part in intensive meetings with execu-tives, strategists and government leaders, aswell as cultural visits and excursions. Insideand outside of the classroom, students willlearn about the Ghanaian community, theissues its people face, and the ways theymanage their multiple intersections withsub-national, national, continental andglobal realities.

“Despite the global economic slowdownand Africa’s poor public image, Ghana’seconomy is still expanding faster than mostother countries in the region,” addedMakone-Anunda. “Destination Ghana par-ticipants will experience firsthand howmultinationals and leading Ghanaian com-panies are riding the global economicdownfall, while simultaneously reshapingthe African business environment resultingin its current competitiveness.”

Fox students will become more exposed toGhana’s economy and culture in January,similar to how the Ghanaian EMBA stu-dents developed a stronger knowledge ofthe U.S. economy during their visit lastFebruary. In addition to their program atFox, EMBA students from the University of

Ghana Business School (UGBS) and theGhana Institute of Management and PublicAdministration (GIMPA) visited LincolnUniversity, the Wharton School of theUniversity of Pennsylvania, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology and HarvardBusiness School. Since 2000, EMBA students from Ghana have annually visitedthe U.S. to attend the Africa BusinessForum Meeting at Harvard University. Thisyear, faculty planned a more extensive tripfor students.

Charles Bruce-Tagoe, a UGBS EMBA student and member of the quality controldivision of the Ghana Cocoa Board,described the 2009 Ghanian EMBA students’ motives for taking the trip as aneed to internationalize and see what isemerging in the rest of the world.

As the 2009 EMBA Ghanaian studentswere motivated to experience the U.S.,Destination Ghana will allow Fox under-graduate students to experience and learnabout new markets that are emerging inAfrica, specifically Ghana. And, theInstitute of Global Management Studiesand Temple CIBER are excited about thenew oppor-tunities available to students onboth continents as a result of the collabora-tive programming. n

GHANA AND U.S. BUSINESS STUDENTS DISCOVER NEW ECONOMIC MARKETS

The Seventh Floor Commons served as the gathering place for the 80 Ghanaian MBA students who attended lectures hosted by the Fox Institute of GlobalManagement Studies.

TEMPLE PROGRAMS LINK AMERICAN AND DUBAIAN STUDENTS

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Temple CIBER is continuing to build interna-tional partnerships around the world, especial-ly in the Middle East. The Center forInternational Business Education andResearch (CIBER) focuses on developingglobal competence of students, and as a result,helped three Fox students attend the InsightDubai Leadership Conference in Dubai lastApril. CIBER’s commitment also facilitatedDubai Women’s College students to partnerwith Fox students on a virtual collaborationproject that resulted in the students comingtogether to present the final project at Fox.

The Insight Dubai conference was heldApril 11–19, 2009, and allowed womenaround the world to travel to Dubai to learnabout Islamic culture and recent publicaffairs in the Middle East. RebekahJastremski, Kathyryn Aulenbach andCatherine Flanagan were chosen by CIBERto go to the conference and enhance theirglobal awareness and leadership skills, withan emphasis on the Middle East.

Prior to attending the conference, Flanagan,a Fox ’09 alumna and international businessand economics major, was unsure of whatto expect of her visit to a country that placesrestrictions on women’s rights. After meet-ing with students at the Dubai Women’sCollege (DWC), learning more about howIslam is different than other religions andmeeting the first woman appointed to theFederal National Council, Flanagan devel-oped a greater appreciation for Islam’s histo-ry and the people of Dubai.

Aulenbach, a Fox ’09 alumna and interna-tional business and legal studies major, alsoremarked about the tremendous experienceshe had during the leadership conference.“Spending a week with 100 incrediblewomen opened my eyes to the fact that weare strong, and if we work together and lookout for each other, we can accomplish any-thing,” Aulenbach said. “I am foreverchanged thanks to the Insight Dubai con-ference in every way I thought I would beand more.”

“Although we came from different geo-graphic locations, we all shared one thing incommon: every one of us had drive andambition,” said Jastremski, a Fox seniormarketing and international business major.

Like Jastremski, Aulenbach and Flanagan,the DWC visiting group received a life-changing experience while visiting Fox inlate April and during the three-month virtu-al collaboration. Students in their last year ofcollege at DWC and Fox worked side-by-side to complete a case study and competi-tion on the emergence of a U.S. company inDubai, and much of the group’s communi-cation and collaboration occurred throughWebEx, MSN messenger and Skype.

The teams designed hypothetical businessplans, based on the Harvard BusinessSchool case, “Ben & Jerry’s—Japan.” Toconstruct a successful plan, the students hadto analyze the economic, political, cultural,legal and environmental factors in Dubaiand their impacts on the potential businessoperations of Ben & Jerry’s in that market.

“There were a lot of barriers that might havemade the work impossible, but we foundways to go beyond what we thought we werecapable of to overcome our cultural differ-ences,” said Mariam Kamal, a DWC student.

“For many DWC students, it was their firsttime working with U.S. students, as well asvisiting the U.S.,” said Johan DeKlerk, DWCprofessor and Fox visiting professor. All of theDWC students came out of this project with

a positive view, and they leave here with a different picture than they had before.”

Dr. Arvind Phatak, executive director ofFox School’s Institute for GlobalManagement Studies (IGMS) and CIBER,organized the first virtual collaborationwith DWC four years ago after developinga relationship with the college. Both Dr.Phatak and Professor DeKlerk anticipatethat DWC and Fox’s long-term relationshipwill continue to flourish.

In addition to receiving visiting facultymembers at Fox and sending Fox faculty toDWC in the future, CIBER is dedicated tocreating new seminars and programs thatgive students the chance to learn moreabout international business.

“International politics, economics andhomeland security are deeply affected bythe Arab and Islamic world. As U.S.engagement in the Middle East intensifies,students must be exposed to business prac-tices, language, culture, religion, historyand area studies to enhance their under-standing of the region and to become glob-ally competent graduates and future busi-ness leaders,” concluded Kim Cahill, direc-tor for CIBER and the Institute for GlobalManagement Studies. n

CIBER CONTINUES TO GROW MIDDLE EAST PARTNERSHIPS

Students from Dubai Women’s College and the Fox School of Business present foreign market entry strategies for Ben & Jerry’s to enter the UAE market.

FOX STUDENTS CHALLENGE OTHER UNIVERSITY TEAMS AT ANNUAL CIBER CASE CHALLENGE

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Four Fox School of Business studentsattended the fifth annual CIBER CaseChallenge at the Ohio State UniversityFisher College of Business this fall, compet-ing against 15 leading business schools fromaround the world. The CIBER CaseChallenge brings teams from across theglobe to compete in analyzing and present-ing an international business case to judges.

“Temple CIBER is pleased to sponsor a stu-dent team each year to participate in thisexciting program, where students have anopportunity to apply the IB theory andmethods they have been learning in theclassroom in a real-life, practical applica-tion,” said Kim Cahill, director of TempleCIBER and the Institute of GlobalManagement Studies.

The Center for International BusinessEducation and Research (CIBER) andFisher’s International Programs Office host-ed the event, which is co-sponsored byTemple CIBER.

CIBER was established under the OmnibusTrade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 toincrease and promote the nation’s capacityfor international understanding and economic enterprise. There are currently 31 CIBERs around the country.

Jason Chen, Alejandro Herrera, KariDunbar and Shoaib Tajak represented the

Fox School in the competition, which washeld Oct. 28-31, 2008, in Columbus,Ohio. They were selected by Temple’sCIBER office based on academic perform-ance, presentation experience, internationalexposure and major/area of study. Dr. ArunKumaraswamy, assistant professor of gener-al and strategic management, served as thefaculty advisor for Fox’s team and preparedthe students in advance by providing themwith sample cases and practice scenarios.

Shoaib Tajak, an international and business economics major, explained, “Dr.Kumaraswamy was very instrumental inhelping us prepare for the whole event. Hemade sure we understood how to effectivelyanalyze a case for the important details anddisregard anything that was not important.”

The four-day challenge began with explor-ing the city of Columbus and taking stu-dents to the Honda USA production plantto witness the process of a Honda vehiclebecoming assembled. As Kari Dunbar, aninternational business and finance major,explained, “At first, I thought it was going tobe an experience where I would just see carsbeing built. Fortunately, the experience pro-vided me insight into how global companiesare dealing with the implications of thecredit crunch, from shutting factories downto minimizing the output of vehicles.”

Similar to the hit television show, “TheApprentice,” each competing universityteam had to complete a specific task in 24 hours. At the end of the competition,they were to meet in a boardroom for theirpresentation. Starting at 9:15 a.m. onThursday morning and working until 7 a.m. on Friday, students analyzed the casepresented by Beauty Avenues, a LimitedBrands company, and prepared a solution.

Jason Chen, a Fox international businessmajor with a concentration in economics,explained, “Our approach focused on theinternational expansion of Limited Brands,specifically through existing production anddistribution networks by means of partner-ships and buyouts.” Herrera, an accountingmajor, added, “The biggest challenge wasobviously the limited amount of time avail-able to prepare our presentation. Despite thedifficulty, the pressure to complete the plansubstantially helped me develop the way Iapproach business challenges and value theinput of our team, which worked very welltogether in our preparation.”

The final cases were presented to a panel ofmultinational corporate executives fromCentral Ohio on Halloween morning.Although the Fox team did not make it intothe final round, the judges’ feedback was


FOX STUDENTS TAKE PART IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSCOMPETITION

The four-day CIBER Case Challenge attracted competitors from 15 of the world’s top business schools.

TEMPLE HOSTS 10TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH FORUM

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The 10th Annual International BusinessResearch Forum at Temple University pre-sented research by renowned experts on thegrowing trends in global entrepreneurshipon April 18, 2009. This year’s forum wastitled, “Beyond Silicon Valley: How emerg-ing economies are re-shaping our under-standing of global entrepreneurship.”

Temple’s Center for International BusinessEducation and Research (CIBER) organizesthe yearly event, and the Fox School’s Instituteof Global Management Studies (IGMS) andthe quarterly Journal of InternationalManagement (JIM) are co-sponsors.

Researchers from six countries and 18 uni-versities presented previously conductedresearch and had the opportunity to receiveand provide feedback to fellow experts in anintentionally intimate environment.

The 2009 forum was co-chaired by guesteditors, Ram Mudambi, professor and chairfor general and strategic management, andTL Hill, assistant professor of general andstrategic management.

This year’s presentations and discussionsanalyzed many of the concerns and intereststhat relate to globalization within emergingeconomies. For example, researchersexplored the question, “What impact doesshifting government policies and social andpolitical attitudes have on the prospects ofglobal entrepreneurship?” and expand fur-ther based on the large role that communi-cation and transportation technologies playin the growth of global firms.

“Presented papers were subjected not only tocritiques from the audience at the forum,but also to additional blind reviews for fur-ther improvement. Several of the best paperswill be published in a special issue of theJournal of International Management,” saidDr. Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe, Washburnchair and professor of international businessand marketing, and editor of the JIM.

“Every year we identify a new emergingtheme for the forum,” added Dr. Kotabe.“While it is not an easy thing to accom-plish, it is fair to state that we have set the standard in successfully identifying

emerging research themes in the interna-tional business research community.”

Dean M. Moshe Porat was instrumental inlaunching the first International BusinessResearch Forum in 2000. Today, Dean Poratand Dr. Kotabe continue to oversee theimplementation of the annual event. “TheIB Research Forum is an extraordinaryopportunity for researchers from around theworld to converge in one location, share anddiscuss research with fellow entrepreneurs,faculty and students, and perhaps be pub-lished in JIM, ” said Dean Porat.

The Journal of International Management waslaunched in 1995 by Thunderbird andmoved to the Fox School in 1998. JIM hasgained tremendous recognition and visibilityin a competitive IB market and differentiatesitself with one of the fastest quality reviewprocesses in the industry—an average 38-dayturn around on reviews and 24 hours ondesk rejects. Electronic downloads, a reason-able indicator of readership, have increaseddramatically since Dr. Kotabe took over edi-torial leadership. There were less than 7,000downloads in 2001 compared to more than100,000 in 2008. JIM was formally acceptedfor inclusion in the Social Science CitationIndex (SSCI) in 2008. The acceptance is anenormous accomplishment for a fairly newjournal and is a testament to the journal’soverall excellence. n

IB RESEARCH FORUM ON GLOBALENTREPRENEURSHIP

THIRD ANNUALGLOBAL TEMPLECONFERENCE

On any given day, a walk around Temple’scampus is like a venture into a culturallydiverse melting pot full of various languagesand interests. Nicknamed DiversityUniversity and ranked No. 1 in ethnic andcultural diversity in the nation by ThePrinceton Review, Temple is by far one of themost diverse colleges with a student bodythat encompasses 50 states, more than 130countries and four different internationalcampuses around the world.

Temple University hosted the Third AnnualGlobal Temple Conference on Nov. 11,2008, in the Howard Gittis Student Center.With research presentations, panel discus-sions, poster sessions, films, performancesand exhibits, an assortment of Temple’s students, faculty and staff presented projectsthat were creative with an academic andinternational focus.

The conference’s key points were based on three broad themes: international education, international research and globalization. Fox faculty and students presented their research on the followingtopics: International Business Practices,International Markets and Multinationals,and the Global Financial Crisis. “The qual-ity and quantity of the presentationsimprove every year. This is a unique situa-tion where the entire university is involved,and it’s an excellent opportunity to getexposed to the breadth and depth of inter-national expertise across our campus, ” saidKim Cahill, director of Temple’s CenterforInternational Business Education andResearch (CIBER).

Dr. Jonathan Scott, associate professor offinance, and Dr. Donald Wargo, assistantprofessor of economics and business ethics,participated in a panel discussion that dealtwith issues surrounding the current financialcrisis. During “The Global Financial Crisis:a view from two different continents panel,”Dr. Scott provided an overview of the creditcrisis and focused on the theme of blindfaith in markets, models, and housing.


Dr. Stephan Manning, InternationalVisiting Scholar, Fuqua School ofBusiness, Duke University, presents hisresearch, “From Blind Spots to Hot Spots:How New Offshore Service ClustersEmerge and Attract Foreign Investment.”

FOX FIRST TO HOST TRADE SEMINAR

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TEMPLE CIBER AND THE IEI HOST FREE TRADE SEMINAR

On Feb. 25, 2009, the Fox School ofBusiness became the first school to hold“Competing in the 21st Century:Navigating the Global Marketplace,” a freeseminar to inform and educate the businessand academic communities on the advan-tages of free trade in the WesternHemisphere. Temple’s Center forInternational Business Education andResearch (CIBER) and the Innovation andEntrepreneurship Institute (IEI), alongwith the U.S. Department of Commerce,the International Trade Administration(ITA), the Economic DevelopmentAdministration (EDA) and the U.S.Commercial Service planned the informa-tive full-day event.

Shawn Ricks, senior international trade spe-cialist for the office of the WesternHemisphere, ITA, and Nicole DiSilvis,commercial officer for the U.S. and ForeignCommercial Service, ITA, organized thepilot program at Temple due to Fox’s

connection with regional businesses, itscredibility in the community and extensiveinternational business programs. “There’sstill a lot of work to be done to inform smallbusinesses in the region about marketopportunities and make students aware ofthe international perspective of the globalmarketplace,” Ricks said.

The day consisted of a morning session, whichtargeted small- to medium-sized business owners and entrepreneurs, and an afternoonsession, which focused on the academic community—faculty, administrators and students. The morning seminar commencedas Dean M. Moshe Porat welcomed more than100 attendees to Alter Hall, the new home ofthe Fox School. “Globalization is our middlename here at the Fox School of Business,” saidDean Porat, recognizing the many achieve-ments of Fox’s international programs inRome, Tokyo, Mumbai, Beijing and Paris.

Morning session keynote speaker WalterBastian, deputy assistant secretary for theWestern Hemisphere, ITA, U.S.Department of Commerce, spoke about freetrade agreements as advancement mecha-nisms and a way to reach growth markets.“You always have to look ahead,” saidBastian. “Things are changing very quickly,and you have to take advantage of that.”

Recent technological progress and forward-thinking business contracts, such as theNorth American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) and the Central American FreeTrade Agreement (CAFTA), have greatlyexpanded America’s trade markets withCanada, Mexico, Chile and CentralAmerica. Currently, 80 percent of U.S.exporters are small- to medium-sized busi-ness owners with 500 employees or less.

Following the opening address was adetailed panel discussion on governmentresources available to U.S. exporters.Representatives from the ITA U.S. ExportAssistance Center, the Minority BusinessDevelopment Agency and the EDA discussed the importance of collaborationbetween public and private sectors in iden-tifying international buyers and makingbusiness become a reality. “You don’t haveto be an established business to utilize our

resources,” commented Ricks. “You justhave to have an idea.”

Ron Reid, a retiree and entrepreneur of R ReidEnterprise-Global, took advantage of the net-working opportunities after the discussion,speaking with panelists about his own pharma-ceutical business plans. “I’m looking to narrowdown my market and specialize. I’d like tofocus on specific countries,” Reid said.

Many attendees stayed for the afternoonsession as well, hoping to recruit interns orgain more information.

Students were given the chance to speakwith representatives from the Phelps StokesFund, the Washington Center Program andthe U.S. Department of Education, as wellas the EDA, ITA and the National Instituteof Standards and Technology (NIST), aboutinternship and career opportunities. Thepanelists from the ITA and NIST advisedstudents to embrace each small experiencealong their career path evolution, andstressed the value of study abroad programs,area studies and knowledge of foreign lan-guages to gain an international perspective.

“It was great to be able to learn about thefuture of trade relations in North and SouthAmerica, meet the panelists and introducethem to the IBA,” said Patrick Kenny, ajunior international business and marketingmajor, and president of the InternationalBusiness Association (IBA).

Temple CIBER also developed a partner-ship with Bodine High School forInternational Affairs. Fifteen Bodine stu-dents attended the seminar and had anexclusive roundtable discussion to help cul-tivate a relationship with not only Temple,but also the ITA and other governmentorganizations that wish to help mentor andprovide the students with scholarship andinternship opportunities.

Overall, it was a successful and informativeday for both the business and academiccommunities. Kim Cahill, director ofTemple CIBER, thanked the many peoplewho helped produce the event. “We are soexcited to be a key part in developing thisprogram that is going to be implemented inuniversities all over the U.S.” n

Walter Bastian from the U.S. Departmentof Commerce discusses the advantagesof free trade in the Western Hemisphere.

TEMPLE CIBER PROVIDES TRAINING FOR BUSINESS LEADERS AND ENTREPRENEURS

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Temple CIBER, in partnership with theU.S. Commercial Service, the SmallBusiness Administration and the Mid-Atlantic District Export Council recentlyconcluded a six-part workshop titled,“Breaking Into the Trade Game.” Theworkshop, which consisted of six sessions,offered once a month from February to July,provided exclusive training for businessleaders and entrepreneurs interested inexporting and expanding their businessesglobally. Program managers of the serieswere U.S. Commercial Service’s LeandroSolorzano, international trade specialist andNicole DeSilvis, commercial officer, alongwith program facilitator Robert Elsas,regional manager for the Office ofInternational Trade, U.S. Small BusinessAdministration.

DeSilvis commented that this year’s work-shops were some of the most successful andwell-attended of the past 12 years. “Therewas a great demand for entrepreneurs andnew businesses looking to overseas markets,”said DeSilvis, who developed the revampedprogram’s curriculum. This year, the pro-gram functioned as a road show, travelingthroughout the area to hold sessions inPhiladelphia, Chester, Montgomery andLehigh counties. “We had our largest atten-dance ever of 35 different small-to-medium-sized firms,” continued DeSilvis. “Someattendees were in the initial stages of

developing their export strategy, and othershad been exporting for years and wanted toattend a class where they needed a refreshercourse on certain topics.”

The workshop topics focused on differentaspects of international trade, including“Making the Export Decision,” “SelectingMarkets and Cultural Considerations,”“Transporting Goods Internationally,”“Legal Issues for Exporters,” “CreatingEffective International PaymentStructures,” and “How to Approach a Bankfor Financing.” Each class featured presen-tations from local international businessexperts, including representatives from theU.S. Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, theDelaware Valley International ResourceCenter, the American Export TrainingInstitute and more. Each session was alsoattended by a different trade specialist fromthe Philadelphia U.S. Export AssistanceCenter to answer any questions participantshad prior to and after each session.

“Every year, we update the curriculum toinclude hot topics and relevant issues withinthe international business sphere,” saidDeSilvis, “placing the emphasis on recentfree trade agreements, for example.” Notonly were these workshops tailored specifi-cally to the inquiries, insights and needs ofbeginning-to-intermediate exporters, butalso helped attendees create a network ofcontacts within the community. In addition,

participants who attended four out of the sixsessions received a “Certificate of Export.”

“This series would give anyone interested inexporting a good understanding of the stepsinvolved in the international process,” saidLavell Kirby, a graduate student atWilmington University and creator ofClassic Varsity, a promotional apparel com-pany. “Being a student, I plan to apply theinformation learned in these sessions to mybusiness projects.”

Joe Cygan, recently-appointed vice presidentof business development for ChemLogixGLOBAL, attended April’s “TransportingGoods Internationally” workshop. “I neededa quick way to get up to speed and learnsome basic principles and gain awareness ofcurrent and future issues in the global tradearena,” Cygan said. “It was well worth mytime to attend.”

DeSilvis attributes the tremendous success ofthis year’s community involvement in largepart to the program’s affiliation with TempleCIBER and its strong international businessinitiatives and industry connections.

The appreciation of participants was clearlyevident in comment cards they filled out afterthe workshops. “This should be an exampleof how sincerely, productively and effectivelya public sector branch can help the privatesector,” said Shams Huda of Abitec Inc.“Please accept my sincere gratitude.” n

Tony Ceballos of the Philadelphia U.S. Export Assistance Center and Bob Elsas of Export Solutions Group pose with participantsof the “Breaking Into the Trade Game” at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s regional headquarters in King of Prussia, Pa.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE WORKSHOPS TURN EXPORTERSINTO EXPERTS

FOX TO INCORPORATE IFRS IN THE ACCOUNTING CLASSROOM

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Today, U.S. auditing firms and multina-tional companies are expecting tomorrow’saccountants to understand and be profi-cient in the International FinancialReporting Standards (IFRS), the account-ing standard that the U.S. is consideringadopting. As of 2008, more than 113 coun-tries follow IFRS.

In order to ensure that tomorrow’s account-ants are knowledgeable of IFRS, 118accounting professionals, faculty and stu-dents attended a three-day “InternationalFinancial Reporting Standards and Fair-Value Accounting & Workshop onIntegrating IFRS into the FinancialAccounting Curriculum” conference in earlyJune. The conference provided participantswith background information on IFRS andoffered suggestions on concepts and tools tointegrate IFRS into the classroom.

Temple University’s Fox School of BusinessDepartment of Accounting and the Centerfor International Business Education andResearch (CIBER) sponsored the confer-ence that was held June 3–5, 2009, in Fox’snew facility, Alter Hall. Dr. ElizabethGordon, Fox accounting professor, Kim

Cahill, director of CIBER and the Institutefor Global Management Studies, JayanthiKrishnan, Fox associate professor ofaccounting, and Sheri Risler, Fox professorof accounting practice, organized andplanned the conference. Corporate spon-sors included Dupont and KPMG.

“IFRS is very timely and is where account-ing in the U.S. is moving to,” explained Dr.Gordon. “Currently, there are very littleresources on IFRS, and the conference wasa great way to help bring information intothe classroom.”

“The conference was instrumental in pro-viding a sense of where the U.S. is in con-verging and adopting the InternationalFinancial Reporting Standards, whichappear to be inevitable since it has been sowidely adopted by other countries, and indemonstrating some of the fundamentaldifferences in the rules-based U.S. GAAPvs. the principles-based IFRS,” said MarcoMalandra, assistant professor of accounting.Presently, the European Union, China,Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Arabstates of the Persian Gulf (Bahrain, SaudiArabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and the

United Arab Emirates), Russia, SouthAfrica, Singapore, Turkey and several othercountries have adopted the IFRS standards,and the U.S. is set to be the next in line.

The first day of the conference stressed thekey differences between IFRS and the cur-rent U.S. standard, U.S. GenerallyAcceptable Accounting Principles (U.S.GAAP). After learning the differences,experts from academia, public accountingand the accounting industry highlighted thebest way to add IFRS into basic and interme-diate accounting courses.

On day two, assorted representatives fromaccounting firms, global companies and reg-ulatory bodies provided expert advice onincorporating revenue recognition withIFRS, fair value accounting and IFRS, andfirst time IFRS adoption. David Cairns fromthe London School of Economics, SherifSakr from Deloitte & Touche and PaulMunter from KPMG were among the morn-ing speakers to touch on these topics. Thethird day consisted of research paper presen-tations from six distinguished professors.


FOX’S CONFERENCE ON IFRS EDUCATES ACCOUNTING FACULTY

Panelists S.P. Kothari, Stephen Penman, Ray Pfeiffer, Sherif Sakr and Mark Watermasysk discuss fair value accounting at the June2009 conference.

CIBER CO-HOSTS COLLOQUIUM ON INTERNATIONALIZING BUSINESS EDUCATION

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Temple CIBER, which is a member ofBisNet (the Business International StudiesNetwork), organized and co-hosted aColloquium on Internationalizing BusinessEducation which featured two panel ses-sions and four roundtable discussions at the2009 NAFSA Conference and Expo in LosAngeles, “Fostering Global EngagementThrough International Education.” NAFSAis the largest professional association ofinternational educators in the world, withnearly 10,000 members. The panel sessionsfocused on global workforce developmentand the ways in which business schools areleading internationalization efforts acrosscollege campuses. The roundtable discus-sions emphasized integration of foreign lan-guage into the business curriculum, promo-tion of nontraditional study abroad loca-tions such as emerging economies, collabo-ration across schools and departments andbetween undergraduate and graduate pro-grams, and solutions for internship place-ments and job searches.

“The event was a great opportunity toaddress the unique needs of the businessschools that attend the annual NAFSA con-ference,” said Gloria Angel, assistant direc-tor of CIBER and the Institute of GlobalManagement Studies (IGMS). “NAFSAprogramming has traditionally been morebroad-based, and this colloquium has high-lighted the issues and challenges that busi-ness students face when studying abroad.The business schools have played an impor-tant role in ‘internationalizing’ their cam-puses.” The colloquium attracted over 100attendees, and the conference included7,500 educators and administrators andnearly 450 exhibitors.

BisNet members, which include the topU.S. business schools, meet every year at theNAFSA Conference to share best practices,discuss issues unique to the business studentpopulation, address specific concerns relat-ed to common overseas partners, identifyopportunities for collaboration, and toundertake dynamic initiatives to promoteand improve the range and quality of thestudy abroad experience. Today’s curricu-lum must provide students with a global

perspective, and enrollment in businesseducation with an international context issteadily increasing.

Kim Cahill, the director of CIBER andIGMS, coordinated and organized the half-day event. Tasked with choosing a topic,location, speakers, and questions, consoli-dating ideas and contacting interestedmembers for participation, Cahill pulled itoff successfully with the help of her team,including Angel and her BisNet colleaguesfrom the University of Wisconsin,University of Virginia, University ofPennsylvania, The Ohio State University,University of Washington, and IndianaUniversity.

“A full room of attendees, active participa-tion and strong interaction between thespeakers and the audience made the pro-gram a success,” said Angel, who ran one ofthe short-term study abroad programroundtable discussions. “The topic wasappropriate, and the attendees were inter-ested in what was presented. We learnedthat the panel sessions need to be moreinternationally focused and our global part-ners will play a key part in the planningstages of these types of programs in thefuture.”

“Business students seeking an internationalexperience are often challenged by addition-al academic hurdles. Established studyabroad curriculum is not traditionally richin international business and as a result,administrators for business students mustoften take significant initiative to securestudy abroad partner universities of highstanding with courses that will allowprogress toward a business degree andaddress issues of accreditation,” Cahill said.“Having the opportunity to develop a collo-quium dedicated to business at NAFSA,one of the most high profile events forinternational educators, was a significantbreakthrough for BisNet and TempleCIBER.” n

CIBER TAKES PART IN NAFSACONFERENCE

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“This year’s conference allowed accountingprofessors to receive a glimpse into howIFRS and GAAP are different and the bestpractices of incorporating IFRS in collegeaccounting courses at Fox and around thecountry,” added Fox Dean M. Moshe Porat.“With the U.S. Securities and ExchangeCommission proposing a roadmap foradoption of IFRS by 2014 for all U.S. pub-lic companies, the IFRS conference was acrucial step for all attendees.”

The three-day conference concluded withaccounting faculty receiving the necessarytraining and education to incorporate IFRSinto the fall 2009 curriculum. n

FOX STUDENTS TAKE PARTIN INTERNATIONALBUSINESS COMPETITIONcontinued from page 8

positive, and Alejandro Herrera was recog-nized as the best performer in the room.Each student remarked on how the experi-ence enabled them to work as a team, net-work and build valuable business strategytools that will be beneficial in their futurebusiness careers.

“Working under tight deadlines in a stress-ful situation helped students understand thechallenges that often confront real consult-ants in the business world and enabled themto present their ideas to the very executiveswho are managing the business challengesdescribed in the case,” said Melissa A.Torres, director of the InternationalPrograms Office/CIBER at the FisherCollege of Business. “Students also had awonderful opportunity to learn how theircolleagues from other business schools ana-lyze the same issues and present their strate-gies, and to compare that to their ownapproach.”

The 2008 CIBER Case Challenge winnerswere: Singapore Management University(first place), Washington University (secondplace), Canada’s Concordia University (thirdplace) and Audencia Ecole de Managementof Nantes, France (fourth place). n

CIBER SEMINARS PROVIDE INSIGHT ON GLOBAL BUSINESS AND EDUCATION

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Because of its excellence in academic research,curriculum development and outreach pro-grams, Temple CIBER, housed in the FoxSchool of Business, is exposing students andfaculty to international education and insighton global business. In fact, since 2003,CIBER has continued to bridge the globalgap by offering training seminars in language,emerging markets and international trade.

The 2008–2009 seminar series included:

THE LANGUAGE ANDLINGUISTICS DISTINGUISHEDGUEST LECTURE SERIESThe series hosted by CIBER’s Language andLinguistics Center is organized by Dr. Aneta Pavelenko in the College ofEducation and consisted of researchers pre-senting on a broad range of topics including“problems portraying the migrant in appliedlinguistics,” “cultural variations in maternaldiscourse across narrative contexts,” and “linguistic relativity and language learning.”The seminar series boasted faculty from TelAviv University, University of London,University of Auckland, Princeton Universityand the University of California.

SBDC GOING GLOBALSEMINAR SERIESGiven the current economic conditions, it isno surprise that many businesses are findingit hard to survive. The Temple Small BusinessDevelopment Center presented the three-part “Going Global Series,” where small-business owners learned how the global mar-ket place can be their next big step towardsuccess. In addition, attendees learned theintricacies of expanding into a global marketwith a particular emphasis on exporting,importing and how to engage in businesswith China and navigate through China’sbusiness environment and culture.

THE NEW INDIA FORUM:CULTURE, CAPITAL AND THEMAKING OF THE NEW INDIAThe eight events of the New India Forumwere part of a yearlong series to explore themechanisms by which the idea of “India” isproduced and reproduced in the realm ofwhat is broadly conveyed by the term “cul-ture.” The forum is an ongoing facultyresearch seminar structured around presen-tation of original research from a broadly

humanistic perspective using widely inter-disciplinary approaches. The events duringthe program included lectures by anthro-pologists, film and literature scholars, apolitical scientist, a curator of South Asianart from a major U.S. museum, a historianof gender, documentary filmmakers andactivists involved in Indian NGOs. Theforum is organized by Dr. Priya Joshi, pro-fessor of English, and is supported byCIBER, the Center for Humanities, andthe College of Liberal Arts. n

CIBER PRESENTS THREE GLOBAL SEMINAR SERIES IN 2008–2009

FOX EXECUTIVE MBAPROGRAM EXPANDS TOLATIN AMERICAcontinued from page 5

from both institutions. Each of the 16courses in the program will be offered oncea month in five consecutive days. Extensiveuse will be made of the Fox School’s tech-nology and will utilize virtual collaborationtools including WebEx and Blackboard tofacilitate pre- and post-course requirements.The students will take classes in bothEnglish and Spanish and will earn anExecutive MBA degree from the Fox Schooland a master’s in administration fromPUJC—all without having to travel to theUnited States.

This program was designed by Dr. ArvindV. Phatak, Carnell Professor and ExecutiveAcademic Director of EMBA Programs in

Latin America, and Executive Director ofTemple CIBER and the Institute of GlobalManagement Studies. Rebecca Beeman,Associate Director for International PartnerPrograms, commented, “This joint degreeprogram, the first of its kind in Colombia,attracts working professionals who wish toobtain an international degree, broadentheir perspectives, and sharpen their man-agement and decision-making skills with-out having to put their careers on hold.”

“It took five years to launch this program andit gives us the opportunity to create awarenessof the Fox brand in South America. It willalso serve as a vehicle for the internationaliza-tion of our faculty. We expect even more stu-dents from neighboring countries likeEcuador and Panama to enroll in the pro-gram in the near future. As such, the programwill create an alumni network in an impor-tant region of the world,” added Dr. Phatak.

The students, senior-level executives fromColombia and Venezuela, follow a rigorous,fast track schedule requiring a five day permonth immersion at the PUJC campus foreach of the 16 courses. The first cohortincludes students from a variety of indus-tries including pharmaceutical, finance,energy, and education.

“We plan to expand into other countries bybuilding more partnerships like this to helpthe Fox School extend its internationalreach,” said Sandra Sokol, executive direc-tor of MBA/MS programs. “Temple’sexpansion to Colombia resulted from exist-ing relationships that Fox School facultyalready had in those countries.”

With these partnerships, the Fox School ofBusiness continues to explore new ways toincrease its global reach and foster innova-tive and exciting international connectionsfor its students. n

SBDC Senior International SpecialistHolly Meng with feature speakersat The Going Global Series: DoingBusiness with China.

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CIBERs at the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Hawaii at Manoa sponsored atwo-week Faculty Development inInternational Business (FDIB) program inVietnam from January 3–15, 2009, to keepfaculty abreast of changes and develop-ments in Asian business culture. Twenty-two faculty representing 17 institutions par-ticipated in the inaugural event. TempleCIBER co-sponsored the program and senttwo faculty members to Vietnam, Dr. MarkCohen, a member of Fox’s Institute ofGlobal Management Studies (IGMS) facul-ty council and adjunct professor of interna-tional business, Asian studies and politicalscience, and Mary Conran, Fox professor ofmarketing and Dean’s Teaching Fellow.

The program highlighted a “compare andcontrast” look at two of Vietnam’s largestbusiness centers, Ho Chi Minh City andHanoi. In each city, the group was presentedwith background briefings from U.S.Commercial attaches, followed by on-sitevisits to organizations in a variety of sectors,including manufacturing, professional serv-ices, retail, food-processing, education,healthcare and micro-finance. The itineraryalso featured break-out groups in which fac-ulty members were able to choose a particu-lar field and partake in a two-hour discussionand breakfast with a Vietnamese executive.

“Ho Chi Minh City emphasized the rapid-ly growing SMEs (Small and Medium Sized

Enterprise) and MNE (MultinationalEnterprise) outsourcing, while Hanoiemphasized the transition of state-ownedenterprises to private enterprise,” saidProfessor Conran.

One of the most important visits in Ho ChiMinh City was to Cargill, an internationalproducer and marketer of food, agricultural,financial and industrial products and servic-es. The group met with an executive whodiscussed his tactics of maintaining strongrelationships with distributors to fend offlocal and multinational competitors who areattacking the market for his products.

Guest speakers also gave their opinions onthe current state of Vietnam’s transitioningeconomy and emerging international mar-kets. Dr. Jonathan Pincus, head of theFulbright teaching program in Vietnam andan advisor to the Vietnamese governmentthrough his position as a faculty member ofthe Harvard Kennedy School ofGovernment, spoke to the group aboutVietnam’s economic restructuring. “In lightof the current world-wide downturn, Dr.Pincus’ forecast for Vietnam is fairly opti-mistic,” said Dr. Cohen.

Others were not as positive. Representativesfrom the real estate, energy and banking sectors referenced upward spiraling inflation,uneven development and inefficient use ofresources. Many on-site visits confirmedthese fears. The group visited Ho Chi Minh

City’s largest hospital to find it sadly over-crowded and unsanitary, as well as a smallDaewoo GM assembly plant in Hanoi,where production is slow and manual laborreigns supreme over modern machines.

However, many sectors do present the pos-sibility for growth. One guest speaker, Dr.Tung Bui from the University of Hawaii,works as a consultant to the VietnameseMinistry of Education. He believes theeconomy will improve when the govern-ment firmly allocates the proper attentionand technological resources to education.

Professor Conran saw this potential in avisit to Dinh Tien Hoang ElementarySchool, a school funded, in large part, byCargill. “The school is located in the high-lands, about two hours outside of Ho ChiMinh City, and we were greeted with wideopen arms and smiles. Each of the classeseither put on a dance, or sang to us. I justkept looking at the children, and their par-ents who had come to see the visitors, withwonder and joy thinking about how limit-less their futures were becoming.”

Aside from observing business practices,participants were given free time to traveland visit the picturesque countryside as wellas religious, cultural and historical land-marks. “Throughout the entire FDIBVietnam trip you could not avoid seeingmonuments to the defeat of the Americansincluding heavy artillery, jet plane fuselagesand demolished tanks displayed in manytown squares and even in war cemeteries,”said Dr. Cohen. “However, the populationseems complacent and anxious to embraceglobalization due to their belief that anexpanded, global economy will create aneven greater distance from Vietnam’s turbu-lent and difficult past.”

The FDIB in Vietnam provided Fox’s attend-ing faculty members with enlightening andpertinent material to integrate into their cur-riculum back in Philadelphia. “The trip toVietnam brought into focus a broad variety oftopics including culture, history, businesspractices and post-Communist economic


“FACULTY DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS”PROGRAM VISITS VIETNAM

Mary Conran, Fox professor of marketing and Dean’s Teaching Fellow, visiting theDinh Tien Hoang Elementary School.

CIBER AIDING IN DEVELOPING NEW ACADEMIC STRATEGIC PLAN

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“Temple has entered a defining moment in its history,” said LisaStaiano-Coico, who, as provost and executive vice president for aca-demic affairs, worked together with faculty, administrators and stu-dents for 18 months to create a new strategic plan, the AcademicStrategic Compass. The new plan will guide Temple University overthe next five years.

Like a compass rose on a nautical chart, the Academic Compass isorganized into four cardinal directions—“Opportunities forSuccess,” “Global Commitment,” “Research Excellence” and“Metro-Engagement”—emerging from a central point calledDestination Temple.

Addressing one of the directions of the Academic Compass, “GlobalCommitment,” Staiano-Coico said, “The changing higher-ed andglobal landscapes demand that Temple advance in new directions,while at the same time being true to our heritage. That’s what theAcademic Compass is intended to provide—a tool to help us mapour destiny—and our CIBER is important in helping us extend thereach of our ‘Global Commitment.’”

Temple’s Center for International Business Education and Research(CIBER), which is funded by a highly competitive Department ofEducation grant, has long shown “Global Commitment.” In line withthe strategies of the Academic Compass, the CIBER helps to increasethe global competency of students, expand international educationand study abroad opportunities, and enhance and increase facultyopportunities for global engagement and international experience.

CIBER provides an opportunity for Temple students to increasetheir global competency by offering interdisciplinary undergraduatecertificate programs in Asian Business & Society and Spanish &Latin American Studies for Business. These undergraduate certifi-cate programs combine coursework in area studies, foreign lan-guages and specialty international business courses. A new certificateof specialization, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Business& Society, is currently under development. To date, 27 students,divided nearly evenly between Fox and the College of Liberal Arts,have earned one of these certificates.

Through its partnerships with schools in Western Europe, Mexico,India, the United Arab Emirates, Ghana, China and Brazil, CIBERhas also been important in increasing opportunities for Temple stu-dents to study abroad. One curricular example of such partnershipsis the CIBER Global Business Project (GBP), a unique graduate-level course offered to MBAs and other graduate students at 10member universities. Unlike other international consulting projectcourses, the GBP asks students to apply both cross-cultural aware-ness and foreign language skills to produce strategic advice for com-panies that is focused, compelling and actionable.

CIBER’s Passport Night is another initiative that encourages studentsto study abroad. Initiated by Gloria Angel, CIBER assistant director,Passport Night is offered each semester to assist students, faculty, staffand the community in obtaining passports.

The CIBER supports global opportunities for faculty through itsFaculty Development in International Business (FDIB) Fellowships.These fellowships enable faculty at Fox and the College of LiberalArts to participate in a variety of professional development programsin countries,places such as Vietnam, Latin America, Africa and India.Fox faculty members also have the opportunity to lead CIBER pro-grams in India and Ghana, and to teach international business atTemple campuses in Rome or Tokyo as well as at partner programsin India, France and Colombia.

CIBER’s work also touches on many other points of the AcademicCompass including “Research Excellence” and “Metro-Engagement.” Supporting “Research Excellence,” CIBER andTemple’s Institute for Global Management Studies lead the annualIB Research Forum on an emerging topic in international business.This forum attracts researchers from around the globe and is fea-tured in a special issue of the quarterly Journal of InternationalManagement, an emerging and respected publication in a highlycompetitive IB journal market, edited by Dr. Masaaki ‘Mike’Kotabe. Also, CIBER fellowships provide funding to furtherresearch projects for faculty and Ph.D. students on topics thatenhance the competitiveness of U.S. businesses in the global market.

“Metro Engagement” is supported by CIBER’s many outreach part-nerships with regional community colleges, K-12 schools, Temple’sSmall Business Development Center, the World Trade Center ofGreater Philadelphia, the Global Interdependence Center, and theWorld Affairs Council.

“In the future, CIBER plans to continue designing and deliveringprogramming that will enhance the global competency of our con-stituents—Temple students, faculty, staff, and the business commu-nity—to prepare and equip them with the knowledge and interna-tional perspectives they need to thrive in today’s global workforce,”said Kim Cahill, CIBER Director. n

CIBER HAS LONG SHOWN“GLOBAL COMMITMENT” AS OUTLINED IN THE NEWACADEMIC COMPASS

A visual representationof the AcademicStrategic Compass.

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became more proficient in integratinginformation, estimating financial modelsand doing financial analysis, which wouldbe just limited to case studies or simulatedprojects in school. I enhanced my skills inconsulting, satisfying customers and work-ing in a team.”

In the 2010 program, students will look for-ward to gaining experience like Zhang’s inthe destination countries of Brazil, China,Japan, Poland and Russia in projects led bythe University of Kansas, UNC, TempleUniversity, the University of Maryland, andDuke University accordingly.

As a result of the successful completion ofboth projects in Japan, the Kobe CityChamber of Commerce hopes that the GBPwill continue with new client companiesfrom Kobe. Dr. Kotabe was invited to speakto the high-ranking executives of some 70companies based in the Kobe-Osaka region ata symposium organized by the Kobe CityChamber of Commerce on July 22, 2009.“More than a dozen companies have alreadyexpressed interest in participating in the GBP2010 in Japan,” said Kotabe. n

THIRD ANNUAL GLOBALTEMPLE CONFERENCEcontinued from page 9

Students and professors from variousTemple campuses, and academic and cultur-al backgrounds, took part in the conference.“It was an opportunity for not only the dif-ferent campuses to participate, but otherschools across the university to showcasetheir research and learn about what theircolleagues are doing in the internationalarena,” said Cahill.

The conference was a full day event thatconcluded with a reception for attendeesand a Global Temple Live! Concert. Theconcert featured performances by Al-Bustanpercussion ensemble, Temple dance depart-ment, Jeffrey Werbock, who played theAzurbaijani string instrument, and NeginMoshtagh, who performed an Iranian Dafdrum solo. n

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restructuring,” said Dr. Cohen. “The back-ground I gained on this trip made my“Fundamentals of Asian Business” coursemore interesting and valuable for studentseager to understand Asian business.”

Likewise, Professor Conran used Vietnamas a discussion point in her “MarketingManagement” course. “I was able to dis-

cuss, with first hand experience and usingcurrent resources, how developingeconomies can and do use change to lever-age resources and update their own posi-tioning in today’s global economic melt-down.”

The program’s success reflects TempleCIBER’s continual dedication to interna-tional business education and brings abouta new respect for emerging and innovativeglobal markets. As Professor Conranobserved, “Vietnam is a society teemingwith entrepreneurs, and there is evidence ofthis everywhere.” n

The Center for International BusinessEducation and Research (CIBER) recentlymoved into the newly constructed Alter Halland gained access to a state-of-the-art facilitydesigned for the future leaders of an ever-changing world of business.

On Jan. 20, 2009, the Fox School of Businessopened the dynamic Alter Hall, an $80 millionstructure named for benefactors Dennis andGisela Alter that features an array of cutting-edge technology.

One of Alter Hall’s most outstanding features isa financial ticker that is the longest ellipticalticker at a business school in the U.S. It show-cases up-to-date stock quotes, headline newsand Fox School announcements. A 16-foot

video wall at Alter Hall’s entrance complementsthe ticker.

Below the first-floor undergraduate lounge,Ernel Martinez, an artist with the PhiladelphiaMural Arts Program, completed a muraldepicting Fox’s core values on a 75-foot wall.

Another piece of artwork that attracts atten-tion in the first-floor atrium is a 6,400-poundblack granite globe, which was a gift to FoxSchool Dean M. Moshe Porat from his friendsPaul and Aviva Silverberg.

A three-story pivoting kinetic sculpturedesigned by California artist Brad Howe further depicts Fox’s appreciation of diversityand international business with pennants thatrepresent nations across the globe. n

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

CALENDAR OF EVENTSTEMPLE CIBER SPONSORED EVENTSwww.Fox.Temple.EDU/Ciber/events.htm

FALL 2009

Passport NightSeptember 10, 4:00 – 7:00 pmAlter Hall, Student Lounge, TempleUniversity

U.S. Language Education Policy inthe Era of Accountability: TheCovert Attack on BilingualEducationSeptember 17, 2009 3:30 pm746 Alter Hall, Temple University

Global Trade Today and the Risk ofProtectionismSeptember 18, 2009 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

How the Hindi Film Industrybecame ‘Bollywood’September 23, 2009Temple University

2009 PaCIE Conference “GlobalInnovation, Diversity andEducation...the Critical Nexus”October 1–3, 2009 Harrisburg, PA

The Discrepancy between FirstLanguage (L1) and SecondLanguage (L2): A Perspective fromL1 AttritionOctober 7, 2009 3:30 pm746 Alter Hall, Temple University

CIBER Doctoral Symposium onForeign Language Pedagogy forBusiness and the ProfessionsOctober 9–10, 2009West Lafayette, Indiana

CIBER Case ChallengeOctober 13–16, 2009Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio StateUniversity

India and the World: From theGreat War to the Cold WarOctober 21, 2009Temple University

Framing in Classroom Discourse:Ideologies in ActionOctober 22, 2009 3:30 pm746 Alter Hall, Temple University

Eighth Annual BusinessInternational Studies Network(BisNet) ConferenceOctober 29–30, 2009Atlanta, GA, Georgia Institute ofTechnology

Encoding of Motion Events in a Second Language: A Corpus-Based StudyNovember 4, 2009 3:30 pm746 Alter Hall, Temple University

National Forum on Trade PolicyDoes North America Still Work?November 5, 2009Kansas City, Missouri

2009 NAFSA Region VIIIConferenceNovember 10-14, 2009 Washington, DC

Global Temple ConferenceNovember 17, 2009Philadelphia, PA, Temple University

Monolingualism, Multilingualism,and College Writing InstructionNovember 18, 2009 3:30 pm746 Alter Hall, Temple University

Do you want me to translate thisin English or in a better Mandinkalanguage?December 1, 2009 3:30 pmLocation TBD, Temple University

Schooling and Linguistic Diversity:Ideologies of Education, Languageand CitizenshipDecember 2, 2009 3:30 pmLocation TBD, Temple University

AIB Conference on ResearchFrontiers in International BusinessDecember 3-5, 2009Charleston, South Carolina

SPRING 2010

Destination Ghana Winter BreakProgramJanuary 2–17, 2010Accra, Ghana

FDIB-China & Hong KongJanuary 3–15, 2010University of Colorado Denver CIBER

FDIB-India: New Delhi & Agra, IndiaJanuary 4–15, 2010University of Connecticut CIBER

FDIB-Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City, HanoiJanuary 2–14, 2010University of Wisconsin-Madison &University of Hawaii CIBERs

Passport NightJanuary 28, 4:00–7:00 pmAlter Hall, Student Lounge, TempleUniversity

CIBER Business LanguageConference Global Literacies:Integrated Approaches to CrossCultural Training March 24–26, 2010Philadelphia, PA, University ofPennsylvania

11th Annual IB Research ForumApril 2010 TBAAlter Hall, Temple University

23rd Annual NASBITEInternational Conference “Setting the Stage for Trade” April 7–10, 2010Austin, Texas

FDIB-Mercosur: Argentina, Brazil & ChileMay 8–19, 2010Florida International University CIBER

FDIB-Africa: Understanding theBusiness Challenges of AfricaJohannesburg and Pretoria, SouthAfrica and Nairobi, Nakuru andAmboseli, KenyaMay 10–26, 2010University of South Carolina CIBER

FDIB-Eastern Europe: Croatia,Czech Republic & TurkeyMay 17–28, 2010University of Pittsburgh CIBER

2010 NAFSA International AnnualConference “The ChangingLandscape of Global HigherEducation”May 30–June 4, 2010Kansas City, Missouri

8th Annual Summer Institute forTeaching a Second Language forBusiness Communications June 21, 2010 Philadelphia, PA, University ofPennsylvania

Academy of International BusinessJune 25–29, 2010Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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ABOUT IGMS AND TEMPLE CIBER

ADMINISTRATION: M. Moshe Porat, PhD, CPCU

Dean, Fox School of Business and Management Joseph E. BoettnerProfessor of Risk Management and Insurance

Rajan Chandran, PhDVice Dean, Fox School of BusinessProfessor of Marketing and SupplyChain Management and International Business

Arvind V. Phatak, PhDExecutive Director, IGMS and Temple CIBERLaura H. Carnell Professor of Generaland Strategic Management andInternational BusinessChair, Faculty Council

Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe, PhDWashburn Chair of International Business and Marketing, Editor, Journal of International Management

Kim Cahill, MSDirector, IGMS and Temple CIBERManaging Editor, Journal ofInternational Management

Gloria Angel, BBAAssistant Director, IGMS and Temple CIBER

Kenyalyn Makone-Anunda, BAAssistant Director, IGMS and Temple CIBER

Julie Fesenmaier, MAAssociate Director, Cochran Center forResearch and Doctoral Programs

PROGRAM DIRECTORS:Mikiya Mori, PhD

Executive MBA in Tokyo

Arvind V. Phatak, PhDInternational Business Program

James D. Portwood, PhDCenter for European Studies

Rebecca Beeman, MIAMBA Partner Programs

IGMS FACULTY COUNCIL: J. Jay Choi, PhD

Laura H. Carnell Professor of Financeand International Business

Mark Cohen, PhDAdjunct Instructor of International Business,Asian Studies, and Political Science

C. Anthony Di Benedetto, PhDProfessor of Marketing and SupplyChain Management

Daniel Fesenmaier, PhDProfessor and Director for the NationalLab for Tourism and eCommerce

Robert D. Hamilton, III, PhDProfessor of General and StrategicManagement

Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe, PhDWashburn Chair of InternationalBusiness and Marketing;Director of Research, IGMS; Editor,Journal of International Management

Richard A. Lancioni, PhDChair and Professor of Marketing andSupply Chain Management

Ram Mudambi, PhDChair and Associate Professor of Generaland Strategic Management and International Business, WashburnResearch Fellow

Arvind Parkhe, PhDProfessor of General and StrategicManagement and International Business

James D. Portwood, PhDProfessor of Human ResourceAdministration and InternationalBusiness

Laureen Regan, PhDProfessor of Risk, Insurance andHealthcare Management

David Robinson, MAAdjunct Professor of International Business

Indrajit “Jay” Sinha PhDAssistant Professor of Marketing andSupply Chain ManagementWashburn Research Fellow

INSTITUTE OF GLOBALMANAGEMENT STUDIES—fostering innovation and developing

alliances to advance international business research, education and outreach.

The Institute of Global ManagementStudies is an interdisciplinary initiativethat supports the business, professional,governmental and academic communityin the Greater Philadelphia region andthroughout the world by:

• Helping businesses and organiza-tions find practical solutions tobusiness problems.

• Supporting, producing and publish-ing quality research of value toregional and international businesses.

• Promoting degree and non-degreeprograms in international business.

• Infusing Temple University facultydevelopment and educational pro-grams with an international per-spective so that our business gradu-ates are fully prepared to operate inan increasingly global marketplace.

TEMPLE CIBER —Increasing U.S. global competitiveness

through education, outreach, and research.

The Temple CIBER is dedicated to fur-thering academic and business success by:

• Supporting international businessdevelopment in the region throughpartnerships with government andnon-government organizations.

• Incorporating international businesscurricula into the Fox School’s globalbusiness programs.

• Providing overseas educational experi-ences and foreign language and culturestudy for students.

• Developing collaborative programswithin Temple and across otherregional academic institutions, organi-zations and businesses.

• Expanding the depth and reach of theFox School’s international businessprograms and research.

• Organizing and hosting conferences,seminars and workshops on globalbusiness and economic issues.

INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND TEMPLE CIBER

506 Alter Hall, 1801 Liacouras Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083

Tel: 215.204.3778 n Fax: 215.204.1662

[email protected] n www.fox.temple.edu/igms n www.fox.temple.edu/ciber

Institute of Global Management Studiesand Temple CIBER506 Alter Hall1801 Liacouras WalkPhiladelphia, PA 19122-6083

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Global PerspectivesPublished by The Fox School of Business’s IGMS, Temple CIBER, and Pryme Design

Rankings

The Economist: MBA Program• Top 50 MBA Programs in the U.S.

Financial Times: MBA Programs• Top 20 Worldwide—International Experience

provided to students• Top 20 Worldwide—International Mobility

of graduates

Financial Times: Executive MBA Program• Top 20 in the World• Top 60 in the World

U.S. News & World Report• International Business Undergraduate Programs

Top 10 in the Nation for five consecutive years• International Business Graduate Programs

Top 20 in the Nation for four consecutive years

Asia Pacific Journal of Management• Ranked Top 5 for Productivity of International

Business Research Faculty in the U.S. and in the WorldInstitute for Scientific InformationEssential Science Indicators: Top 1% of institutions worldwide cited for research inthe field of business and economics

RESEARCHManagement/International BusinessRanked No. 4 for Productivity of International BusinessResearch Faculty in the World and No. 3 in the U.S.,Asia Pacific Journal of ManagementFinanceRanked No. 4 Research Productivity of Finance Faculty,Chronicle of Higher Education/Academic AnalyticsManagement Information Systems

Ranked Top 10 Research Productivity of MIS Faculty,Chronicle of Higher Education/Academic Analytics

Temple University’s Fox School ofBusiness is the largest, most compre-

hensive business school in the greaterPhiladelphia region and among thelargest in the world, with more than6,500 students, 155 full-time facultymembers and 52,000 alumni.

The Fox School of Business is accredited by AACSB International (The Association to Advance CollegiateSchools of Business). For more informa-tion, visit www.fox.temple.edu n

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