Center for Global Business News
Security is a hot topic, but its not one that is easy to get your arms around. Our increasingly global and interconnected society is forcing us to think of security, whether of information or infrastructure, in entirely new ways.
The China Business Forum gave students, academics, and professionals alike an inside look into the latest trends in U.S.-China business development and investment, said student organizer and Smith MBA candidate William Krents, MBA candidate 2008.
Security is a hot topic, but its not one that is easy to get your arms around. Our increasingly global and interconnected society is forcing us to think of security, whether of information or infrastructure, in entirely new ways.
On October 6, 2006, the Smith School hosted its first Digital Economy Forum in partnership with the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) of Switzerland. The event was the first major conference sponsored by the school's new Smith Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).
College Park, Md. May 16, 2006 The University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced that it has received a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) grant that awards the school a total of $1.42 million over four years from the U.S. Department of Education.
The Smith School has been awarded a four-year, $1.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education to fund a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). This high honor designates the Smith School as a national resource center in international business education and research. There are only 31 CIBERs in the nation.
"To be a top-class business school you must have a top-class international component," said Martin Gannon, professor of management and founding director of the Smith School's Center for Global Business, as he received the university's prestigious Landmark Award.
Brian Wallace is American, studying for an MBA at the Smith School of Business, and spending the fall semester at a business school in Germany. Norma Athamary is Peruvian, studying for an MBA at ESADE in Barcelona, now spending a semester abroad in the U.S. at Smith.
The campus, the professors, the technology - 40 MBA and undergraduate business students from Australia and Poland are impressed by it all.