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ABSTRACTThe American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) proposes the continuation of its Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Thunderbird has a long-standing history of educating individuals to work in global business enterprises, both in the United States and abroad. From its earliest years, Thunderbird has served as a regional and national resource for international business education and for collaborative work with many others furthering United States’ business interests worldwide. The activities proposed for Thunderbird CIBER are designed so that the teaching techniques, the curriculum, and the research that have been and will be developed by Thunderbird’s faculty, with input from many diverse groups, will be shared with other educational institutions, the business community, and government agencies. Specific activities proposed for the new CIBER funding cycle include the following: 1. Creation and development of a Cross-Cultural Communication Program based in the Modern Language area. This program will develop new courses and course materials such as CD-ROM-based language/communication modules. It will also carry out research aimed at increasing firms’ abilities to succeed in business across cultural barriers. 2. Building the scope and visibility of our International Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility Institute. This institute will develop additional initiatives for both research on business ethics and corporate social responsibility and conference/seminar projects in this area. In particular, the subjects of sustainable development and dealing with corruption in government will be included in the program and built further. As well, new course modules on these subjects will be introduced into the curriculum. This program is being developed jointly with the University of Kansas CIBER. 3. Launching of a broad service of information and analysis of countries and regions of the world by our International Business Information Center (IBIC). This Internet-based service will provide US firms access to key up-to-date information on business-related topics on other countries, as well as advisory service. The IBIC will also build on its existing base of information services for Thunderbird students at the Arizona campus and at other Thunderbird facilities around the world. 4. Launching of the Global Services Institute, an umbrella organization that will provide support to our key service-sector projects: the Global Financial Services project (banking); the International Retailing Institute (marketing); and the Global Tourism Institute. In each of these areas, Thunderbird will develop a research program, a teaching area, and public conferences and seminars to share knowledge between firms and academic investigators. 5. Expansion of our Trade Assistance Service that specifically will assist small- and medium-sized firms in exporting and undertaking overseas business activities. This effort will expand our work to assist local firms in becoming international. It includes the launching of an Arizona Exporters Association and a variety of training, advisory, and other collaborative services. 6. Building our International Campus Consortium to include new member schools in addition to the 14 existing members, and to involve their students and faculty in our overseas campuses in France, Japan, and Mexico, and other overseas activities. 7. Greater CIBER collaboration with our Executive Education division. This will take place initially through a project to develop international business cases by our executive education instructors in overseas locations, so they gain direct insight into business in specific countries and companies. 8. Building the Thunderbird Research Center to produce additional vital research on international business, international studies, and language for business. The Thunderbird Case Clearinghouse will develop cases in international management for Web-based dissemination; the joint research program with Arizona State University will be used as a model for additional shared research projects. A partnership with Wiley will produce a book series on Global Strategy. New research will build on our strengths of Global Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management. 9. Expanding the reach of our Faculty Development in International Business program to include new topics, more participants, and activities in more locations to serve other business schools. Scholarships will be offered to professors from our International Campus Consortium schools, local community college instructors, professors from Hispanic schools, and professors and doctoral students in our region. Programs will be offered in Arizona and Latin America, and possibly expanded elsewhere. 10. Development of new courses in international business, international studies, and languages for business, to serve our regular international management students, our executive program students, and new student populations. Some of these courses will include Web-based modules and CD-ROM modules that will be made available to other schools as well. 11. Development of additional university outreach programs, including the Maricopa County Community College project (expanding our existing program with Paradise Valley Community College), a program serving Hispanic universities throughout the United States, and joint projects with the Arizona State University system. These will complement our joint MBA/MIM programs with more than a dozen US business schools and other cooperative programs, including those with other CIBERs. 12. Student overseas internships will be expanded to cover more countries and more opportunities. These currently offer about 100 overseas assignments per year. The number will be doubled during the next CIBER cycle, and assistance will be given to students from our partner schools in obtaining overseas internships. The above activities meet CIBER legislation objectives and requirements as shown in the attached Figure 1. Activities to be carried out under CIBER will be aimed at benefiting each of the following groups: A. STUDENTS Students will benefit from: • Studying at the Archamps campus near Geneva, or the Tokyo or Guadalajara campuses, where both Thunderbird and International Campus Consortium students are able to attend for one semester. • The specially designed Dual Degree and Post-MBA programs in which MBA students at other schools may also obtain international business education from Thunderbird. • Active participation in the development of multimedia materials and in research projects in the Thunderbird Research Center. • The development of new courses to reflect changing world conditions. New courses on international business ethics, cross-cultural management, cross-cultural communication, and international services management will be offered. • Access to Web-based services from the International Business Information Center, including the “My Thunderbird” platform that provides extensive interaction with professors and access to course and research materials. • Expansion of the global internship program. B. FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION Faculty and administration will benefit from: • Opportunities for Thunderbird faculty members to become involved in new course development in international business, international studies, and language for business. • The expansion of the Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) programs to train more faculty members from other schools. • Development of multimedia materials for international instruction in languages, business, and social sciences. • Based on membership in the International Campus Consortium or the Dual Degree Program, faculty members from other schools will be able to teach at our Archamps or other overseas campuses and participate in our other overseas programs. • Additional case-writing opportunities for Thunderbird faculty in the Executive Education program, to make them more familiar with key foreign countries and industry sectors. C. RESEARCHERS Those involved in research will benefit from: • Research opportunities in Europe, Asia, and Latin America for faculty members from Thunderbird and other United States educational institutions, at the three main overseas campuses. • Establishment and/or expansion of centers or institutes whose major functions include research in the following areas: 1. Global Financial Services 2. International Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility 3. International Tourism Management 4. International Retailing Management 5. Cross-cultural Management
2. Databases 3. Computer bulletin boards 4. Journals and other library holdings 5. Library electronic linkages 6. Multimedia materials These resources are almost all available electronically through our Web page or through the International Business Information Center Thunderbird’s integrated curriculum has proven successful in producing graduates who can function effectively in international business settings. The new CIBER will be focused on extending existing programs to increase their benefits to faculty members and students from other schools and to business people as they seek to educate or re-educate themselves in international business. The ultimate goal of Thunderbird CIBER is to go beyond the changes it has traditionally made in the attitudes, commitment, and knowledge of its own students with respect to international management. Thunderbird intends to educate faculty and students from our own and other institutions of higher learning and to train business people in innovative ways that will bring significant new short- and long-term benefits to United States businesses. Thunderbird CIBER will be under the direct supervision and coordination of Dr. Robert Grosse; Associate Director of the CIBER will be Dr. Bert Valencia; and Marie Gant will continue as program coordinator. University of California, Los Angeles CIBER application 2002-2006 ciber.area@anderson.ucla.edu ABSTRACT Management education has been changing, adapting to the many challenges of technology and globalization for almost two decades now. From the early AACSB reports on internationalization to the various Title VI programs, schools of business and management have engaged in a broad strategy to internationalize management education. The norm has been to cover management education with a layer of international sensitivity and understanding. Curriculums have been reformed, international resources added, student recruitment adapted, and faculty profiles amplified. The result has been a decentralized proliferation of courses and a plethora of specialized books and materials to cover the large variety of international management problems. This effort has achieved some important goals: international business is no longer the exception in business teaching; students have gained a better understanding of the workings of a global economy; and managers that have passed through various executive training programs are more aware of and better prepared to work in a global economy. The Anderson School at UCLA is now at a more integrated and more rigorous second stage of internationalization. Through a process of consulting with faculty, students, and other key stakeholders, the Anderson School has moved to bring the full weight of its resources and faculty to support this strategic change and alignment. In contrast to the past practice, characteristically broad but thin coverage of the international management themes, the Anderson School at UCLA will now strengthen and deepen its international education efforts. It will do this by integrating and coordinating its research, teaching, and outreach efforts in the international field. In place of the broad and topical coverage that was acceptable, and perhaps necessary, in the first stages of internationalization of management education, our faculty has chosen to integrate its efforts across faculty specializations. This will bring new coherence, depth, and focus to the school’s programs. Where the first internationalization efforts were aimed at students with natural interests in international
issues, our faculty now wants to assure that international management knowledge is made accessible to all students in a rigorous fashion. This will mean more serious student participation in research activities, and more focused and in-depth topical courses. To achieve this integration across a number of critical management areas, the Anderson School’s dean and Board of Visitors have elevated all the school’s research centers to a level commensurate with the functional or discipline-oriented areas. This was done in order to focus resources on strengthening interdisciplinary efforts originating in these centers: the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), the Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the Center for Management in the Information Economy (CMIE), the UCLA Anderson Forecast, the Center for Communications Policy, and the Ziman Center for Real Estate. UCLA CIBER works closely with our sister centers in the Anderson School, leveraging our intellectual and monetary resources in order to internationalize programs across the school. In the spirit of integration, rigor, and coherence, we are choosing to focus on several research themes that draw on the school’s strengths. These themes are: (1) the Role of Entrepreneurship in Internationalizing the US Economy; (2) Information Technology, Trade and US Competitiveness; and (3) Infrastructure and Competitiveness: California and the Nation. The Anderson School will create externalities in all of its teaching and research program activities, through collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts across its faculties, across research centers both within the school and on the university level, and across other CIBER institutions in the country, so that a broader audience might benefit from its programs. Given these new mandates of integration, rigor, and coherence, UCLA CIBER has developed its grant proposal according to these faculty initiatives. For this next grant period, UCLA CIBER will organize and deliver the following programs and activities:
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In conclusion, UCLA CIBER has conducted broad consultations across all major constituents – faculty, students and members of the business community – to create a program that responds to their needs and interests. To implement this ambitious proposal, we are requesting Department of Education support in the amount of $1.8 million over four years. This amount will be more than matched by contributions from the Anderson School at UCLA, and funds raised from private sources. University of Colorado at Denver ABSTRACT The University of Colorado’s Institute for International Business (IIB) was first designated as a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) in 1993, and renewed in 1996 and 1999. This proposal requests that the Department of Education continue the designation and funding for 2002-2006. The University of Colorado is one of 34 public university members of the American Association of Universities, with four campuses, 46,000 students, and 3500 full time faculty. CU is a world-class research institution, ranked 21st among research universities in overall research expenditures and 10th in expenditures of federal research dollars. CU’s Denver campus is home to the university’s largest graduate programs, with graduate students comprising 42% of total campus enrollments. The College of Business (CBA) enrolls 2400 students, mostly working professionals, and offers a BS degree and nine graduate degrees with program strengths in information technology, entrepreneurship, and international business. CBA faculty ranked 4th in research productivity for public schools without PhD programs by the Academy of Management Journal. Globalization in Colorado Dynamic change has moved Colorado out of its isolated boom-and-bust past to become the leading economy in the US in the last decade. With fifteen consecutive years of economic growth, Denver and the Front Range of Colorado are arguably the most rapidly globalizing areas of the US. While today Colorado is important in international terms, Denver is poised to be a world city of the new information based global economy. The new global infrastructure depends on telecommunications, information technology, fiber optics, and satellite technologies that allow companies instant contact with any and all markets worldwide. Colorado is the hub of global telecom, and the “Colorado Convergence Corridor” is home to over 3000 companies that produce these enabling technologies of the global economy. Together these technologies, most developed in the last decade, have collapsed the traditional barriers of time and space, barriers that made cities like Denver remote, and enabled direct access to global markets from most locations. CIBER For the next grant period, CIBER will distinguish itself as a partner, sponsor and collaborator in deepening and extending international education at CU, in the Rocky Mountain region, and nationally. Within CU we will move globalization across disciplines, colleges, and campuses. We will broaden and deepen our business-liberal arts partnership and create a statewide consortium. We will promote internationalization in health administration and in the College of Arts and Media, two areas with growing opportunities in international business. We will collaborate with the Brigham Young University CIBER in linking CIBER to many small schools in the Rocky Mountain West, greatly enhancing their access to international resources. We will directly address the needs of non-traditional students, the fastest growing enrollment segment in the US, for greater access to international business education opportunities and resources. CIBER will continue many successful activities, building upon those with high impact and adding "second and third generation" dimensions. We will introduce new programs with national significance, target several new audiences, and implement four new programs that can be models for other schools and regions. Several activities will emphasize our regional competency on NAFTA and Latin America. The strong ties we have with senior executives in international companies will be leveraged to expand our Global Executive Forum to include overseas venues and to establish new CIBER/business linkages in world cities. In response to the changing face of the globe, one Forum agenda will include a national conference: "Terrorism, New Security Realities, and Business Risk". Our proposed activities support eight major objectives and are discussed below.
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT ABSTRACT
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is the flagship university of the State of Connecticut and the largest state research university in New England. UConn, with over 22,000 students and 1200 faculty, offers undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees through its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and six professional schools. UConn was ranked 28 among the top national public universities by U.S. News & World Report (September 2001). UConn's School of Business (BUS) is accredited by the AACSB and is nationally ranked among the top (a) 25 regional MBA programs by Forbes in terms of return on investment, (b) 25 Techno-MBA programs by Computer World, and (c) 7% of MBA programs by U.S. News & World Report. In 2000, UConn received external grants in excess of $250 million. 2. PURPOSE OF THE PROPOSAL The purpose of this proposal is to seek funding for the UConn High Technology Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) for the four-year period 2002-2006. The focus of the UConn CIBER is to serve as a national resource center to increase U.S. global competitiveness in high technology products, services, and processes. High technology products and services are those requiring relatively intensive research and development inputs. High technology development is a requisite for the economic future of the U.S., and especially Connecticut and other states in the New England region.
The following goals have been set for the UConn CIBER so that it can serve as a national resource for excellence in global technology competitiveness:
The programs proposed to achieve these objectives are outlined below. They are organized under the six mandates outlined in the authorizing legislation. The philosophy underlying the proposed programs is based on the conviction that the competitiveness of the United States principally lies in high technology industries. To effectively compete in these industries in global markets, the U.S. must put educational resources behind them.
The programs listed under each mandate will be developed by interdisciplinary teams composed of faculty from liberal arts and sciences (e.g., languages, area studies, political science and others), business, engineering, and members of the business community. Mandate 1: Interdisciplinary programs which incorporate foreign language and international studies training into business, finance, management, communication systems, and other professional curricula The Twenty-six programs listed below are designed to fill the needs of students at all degree levels: |