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About the CenterFostering ResearchBuilding a Community of ScholarsDeveloping International Business CoursesPromoting Experiential LearningAdvancing Education in Business LanguagesInternationalizing Minority-Serving InstitutionsEngaging the Business and Policy CommunitiesGW-CIBER Administrators & Advisors

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director’s letter

I’ve had the privilege of serving as GW-CIBER’s Director for a little over a year, and I have already seen how much the Center can accomplish within this short timeframe. After three years of leading GW-CIBER through the second half of its 2006-2010 grant cycle and a successful renewal of the grant for the following four years, Jennifer Spencer moved on to become the Chair of the GWSB Department of International Business and handed over the reins of the Center to me. GW-CIBER has accomplished a lot this year despite significantly reduced government funding. These are times when an increasing demand for more international education opportunities and international curriculum development is juxtaposed with widespread budget cuts for programs such as the Title VI program of the U.S. Department of Education that supports the CIBER network. Yet, during the 2011-2012 grant year GW-CIBER continued fulfilling its goal of serving as

a local, regional, and national resource for businesses, students, researchers, and educators. You will read about many of our accomplishments in this annual report, but I will highlight a few of them here. Our commitment to fostering research on the Center’s theme of Institutions, the State, and Development in International Business was reflected again in the completion of several working papers sponsored by GW-CIBER, but this year we also played a major role in hosting the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB) in Washington, which showcased the latest research in the field within the broad topic of “Rethinking the Roles of Business, Government, and NGOs in the Global Economy”. We also held our fifth Summer Doctoral Institute, which brings Ph.D. students from all over the U.S. to work with GW faculty mentors on the Center’s theme. Our efforts extended beyond research as well. GW-CIBER sponsored the introduction of two new courses at the GWSB – one on the global oil industry and one on finance for development. We marked our fifth year of participation in the Global Business Project 2012, and we again supported the GW Global MBA Consulting Abroad Projects (CAPs). Our Business Language Program offered an immersion workshop in Chinese. The HBCU

Fellows Program continued to sponsor faculty members from D.C.-area HBCU schools to help internationalize minority-serving institutions. On top of this, we continued our outreach to the business and policy communities by supporting panel discussions, symposia, and workshops, many of which are featured in this report. I want to thank everyone involved with the GW-CIBER for making my first year as Director a successful one. You will find their names throughout this annual report. However, I particularly want to recognize the contributions of Alexis Gaul, the Administrative Director, and Nevena Yakova, the Program Manager. In an era of cuts in government funding, Alexis and Nevena have had to work much harder to achieve our programming goals, and they rose to the challenge magnificently. As we step into the third year of this grant cycle, I am looking forward to more challenging and exciting ways for GW-CIBER to continue its mission of expanding the international education opportunities for our scholarly and business communities, and to help our stakeholders develop global skills. We welcome anyone interested in joining us in our quest.

Sincerely, Reid W. ClickDirector, GW-CIBER

Reid W. Click is Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where he teaches courses in international financial management, macroeconomics for the global economy, and international economics. An expert on international financial risk and risk management, his academic research been published in leading journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies. He is currently serving as Associate Editor in the field of international finance for the Journal of Asian Economics, and as an advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Development Credit on matters pertaining to international financial risk and risk management. He has held visiting positions in research organizations around the world, most recently as a Fulbright Scholar at the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, The Philippines, for 2009-2010. He received M.B.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1994) degrees in Economics and International Business from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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About the Center The George Washington University CIBER promotes the nation’s capacity for international understanding and economic enterprise related to the theme of Institutions, the State and Development in International Business (IB). This theme emphasizes the role of formal and informal institutions in facilitating international commerce and fostering economic development, as well as the rise of the State as a prominent institutional actor. GW-CIBER’s initiatives focus on issues related to developing and emerging countries and their implications for the U.S. economy, since these markets hold tremendous potential and pose certain challenges for the operation of U.S. firms. By focusing on this single unifying theme, GW-CIBER draws on strong faculty capabilities across a range of disciplines, as well as university-wide interests in promoting economic development through

scholarship, education, and outreach to the business, academic, and

policy communities. GW’s strategic commitment

to International Business, international studies, and foreign languages, as well as its close relationships

with prominent

DC-area organizations, contribute the Center’s achievement of its objectives. GW has the largest freestanding International Business department in the U.S., and its eighteen full-time faculty members have earned their doctorates from the country’s leading programs. The GW School of Business has made Global Management a strategic focus, and has earned national recognition for its programs. For instance, the 2012 U.S. News and World Report has ranked the undergraduate IB program 7th nationally, and the Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked it 4th. Furthermore, GW is home toother nationally-recognized programs (such as MA in International Affairs, International Law, and Public Policy/Public Administration) that participate prominently in GW-CIBER’s efforts to integrate business, international affairs, area studies, foreign languages, and related disciplines. Finally, GW is one of three members of the National Capital Language Resource Center, a federally-funded Title VI center focused on strengthening the nation’s capacity to teach and learn foreign languages.

our objectives• Advance the understanding of International Business along six focal areas.• Integrate International Studies and Business Education, including programs offering real-world

experiences in IB.• Expand students’ proficiency in the context of business in less-commonly taught languages.• Develop a scholarly community of doctoral students from around the country interested in

research related to the Center’s theme.• Provide professional development opportunities for faculty at GW and Minority Serving

Institutions.• Promote scholarship nationwide on the Center’s theme by assembling researchers from

diverse disciplines and locations.

GW-CIBER scholars engage in cutting-edge research related to the theme of Institutions, the State, and Development in International Business, advancing knowledge across a range of disciplines. Within this theme, our research activities are organized around six research streams, or focal areas, and each stream encompasses major issues that will be critical to U.S. managers in the coming decade. GW-CIBER’s sponsored research includes journal articles, books, working papers, research seminars, workshops, and conferences, and is carried out through the mechanism of an annual Request for Proposals (RFP) competition. GW faculty members and doctoral students are invited to submit high-quality proposals for projects related to the Center’s theme and one of the focal areas, and with demonstrated implications for the U.S. competitiveness. The proposals are reviewed by a team of GW-CIBER faculty coordinators who also provide useful feedback. This RFP mechanism encourages researchers to focus their efforts towards certain issues currently considered important in the global environment, and promotes interdisciplinary projects drawing on the expertise of faculty from a number of GW departments. The RFP also allows us to hold investigators accountable for timely completion of their projects and success based on assessment metrics established by GW-CIBER. During the 2011-2012 academic year, scholars funded by GW-CIBER worked on a wide range of projects including:

(i) the effect of mergers and acquisitions on innovation in the acquirer and the target firm, and the nature and extent of knowledge flows between the two parties and between each of them and third-party firms; (ii) the influence of international institutional mechanisms on the investment behavior of multinationals; (iii) the characteristics and implications of Chinese macroeconomic data revisions; and (iv) the influence of the home-country policies on the foreign direct investment decisions of MNE managers (with particular focus on energy security). The above projects are in various degrees of completion and are being prepared for conference presentations and journal submission.

Fostering Research

• Trade, Investment and Labor Policy• Firm-State-Society Relations• Property Rights and Global Innovation• Natural Resource Scarcity, Security, and Sustainability• Economic, Financial, and Political Crises• Disapora Investment and Entrepreneurship

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institutions sans frontières: international agreements and foreign investment

Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are an adventurous breed. They travel to the ends of the world to create new business or sustain their current operations. But, sustaining a global business is a tricky endeavor, especially when governments intervene in operations or change the rules of the game. Ask the managers at China’s CNOOC Ltd, UK’s Vodafone PLC, or Spain’s Repsol SA. The Canadian Government is still reviewing CNOOC’s proposed buyout of the Canadian oil company Nexen Inc, a high profile tax dispute between Vodafone and the Indian Government continues, while the Spanish oil producer Repsol saw its entire Argentine unit nationalized earlier this year. A bold foreign investor may take on a government in its own courts seeking redress for unfair treatment. But a new study by George Washington University professors Srividya Jandhyala and Robert Weiner highlights the protection that International Investment Agreements (IIAs) can provide certain types of firms in their international business transactions. Generally signed between two governments, IIAs provide extensive rights and protection for firms from one country investing in the other, while restricting host governments’ actions. IIAs also allow firms to settle

disputes with the host governments in international arbitration rather than through domestic courts. In their study, Professors Jandhyala and Weiner culled data on the sale of underground oil reserves during 2000-2007 and utilized statistical methods to determine if reserves protected by IIAs commanded a price premium in the market when compared to similar but unprotected reserves. Their analysis shows that, on average, oil firms pay a 27% premium for IIA protected reserves. Yet, this effect is not uniform across all types of firms; a firm’s financial resources and ownership matter. Firms with large financial resources are more likely to pay a premium than those with limited resources. The researchers note that the enforcement of IIAs in international arbitration is a lengthy and expensive process; one that financially weak firms find a significant burden. They also find that state owned firms are less likely to pay the premium when compared to their non-state owned counterparts since state owned firms can use diplomatic channels to resolve disputes. Since the regulation of international business is increasingly being governed by international rather than domestic institutions, MNCs need to evaluate the impact of such institutions on their operations and functions.

FEATURED PROJECT:

Dr. Robert Weiner,Professor of International

Business, Public Policy and Public Administration, and

International Affairs

Dr. Srividya Jandhyala,Assistant Professor of

International Business and International Affairs

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characteristics and implications ofchinese macroeconomic data revisions Most macroeconomic data are obtained from official government sources. Generally these data are considered trustworthy and valuable for firm, household, and policy decisions. However, the quality of data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), China’s statistical authority, has regularly been questioned by both the media and researchers. Tara M. Sinclair, GW-CIBER Scholar and Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs at The George Washington University, examined one piece of evidence often cited as a concern with the quality of Chinese macroeconomic data: the presence of large revisions in the historical data. Well-behaved data revisions are small and random with no impact on economic modeling, policy, or forecasting. Traditional macroeconomic analysis has assumed this is the case for data released by official statistical agencies. The size of the revisions for China, however, has caused some alarm. For example, the 2008 Statistical Yearbook released by the NBS recorded the real GDP growth rate of China for 2007 to be 11.9%. In the 2009 Statistical Yearbook, the 2007 growth rate was revised to 13.0%, and in the 2010 Statistical Yearbook it was revised again to 14.2%. The Chinese economy is growing quickly, however, so the revisions may not be outsized relative to the growth rate of the economy. Furthermore, recent research focusing on U.S. data has suggested that data revisions may not be nearly as well-

behaved as previously assumed, even for highly trusted data coming from official U.S. sources. Sinclair therefore took the traditional tests for well-behaved data revisions and applied them to Chinese macroeconomic data as published each year in the Chinese Statistical Yearbook. She first produced a “real-time” dataset which she has made publically available on her website. Next she applied the battery of tests present in the literature for well-behaved data revisions. Based on her analysis, she concluded that the Chinese data in general fail the tests for well-behaved data revisions, but in a comparison with U.S. data, she showed there is not much difference between the problems of the Chinese data revisions and the U.S. data revisions once the growth rates of the different economies are taken into consideration. Therefore, she writes that the problems “are not at all unique for China, since even U.S. data fail” most of the tests for well-behaved data revisions. Given the growing relevance of the Chinese macroeconomy for global business, and the importance of timely data, a better understanding of the properties of the historical revisions can help users of the data better interpret the early information they receive. Sinclair wrote that her research is “a reminder to firms and policymakers dependent on the early data to expect there to be substantial revisions in future releases.”

Dr. Tara Sinclair, Associate Professor of

Economics and International Affairs

Fostering Research

FEATURED PROJECT:

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academy of international business annual meeting 2012

diaspora research conference In October 2011, Temple CIBER, GW-CIBER, and the Institute of Global Management Studies at the Fox School of Business organized an international business forum on the topic of “Diaspora Investment and Entrepreneurship: The Role of People, their Movements, and Capital in the International Economy.” Diasporas, described as groups of emigrants who leave their countries of origin for a prolonged period of time but still demonstrate a strong link with their migration history and a sense of co-ethnicity with others of a similar background, are now recognized as one of the driving forces behind foreign investment in developing countries. Out of social and/or emotional motivations, diasporans have been contributing to the development of their homelands by injecting capital, creating jobs, influencing the market-entry decisions by multinationals, transferring knowledge, and promoting political, social, and economic transformation. These efforts are now facilitated by the communication and transportation

innovations associated with globalization because migrants are now able to stay in contact with and visit their countries of origin more easily and cheaply than ever before. This research forum convened scholars who investigated the above issues from both theoretical and empirical perspectives and by using various methodologies. Dr. Liesl Riddle, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the GW School of Business, co-chaired the forum, delivered welcome remarks, chaired a session on Diasporas and Institutions, and participated in a round-table discussion on the origins and current state of the literature on diaspora investment and entrepreneurship. A keynote address was delivered by Romi Bhatia, Senior Advisor for Diaspora & Remittances at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and adjunct faculty member at the George Washington University. The topic of his address was Leveraging Diaspora Investment and Entrepreneurship for Development.

The 2012 Meeting of the Academy of International Business was held in the Washington, DC’s Ronald Reagan Building from June 30th to July 3rd, and was hosted by the George Washington University and the University of Maryland, with a significant contribution from GW-CIBER. The theme of the meeting was “Rethinking the Roles of Business, Government, and NGOs in the Global Economy” – a topic very closely related to GW-CIBER’s theme of Institutions, the State, and Development in International Business. The meeting was attended by more than 1,000 scholars who presented and/or listened to presentations and panel discussions related to: the changing roles of business, government, and NGOs in the global economy; modeling of MNE location choices; current topics in corporate governance; the institutional boundaries of emerging markets; performance issues of SMEs and global companies; organizational challenges within the MNE subsidiary network; current issues related to the global financial crisis; and diaspora networks, among others. In seeking to bridge theory and practice, the 2012 AIB conference also featured an increased number of participants

from companies (McKinsey, Daimler AG, Medtronic), relief and development organizations (Oxfam, the American Red Cross), the U.S. State & Commerce Departments, and the UNCTAD. The conference program included the usual Doctoral and

Junior Faculty Consortia, a Paper Development Workshop, Dissertation and Best Paper Award presentations, and various Plenary sessions. A panel of Washington, D.C. Deans (including the Deans of the Business Schools of the University of Maryland, the George Washington University, American University, and the George

Mason University) welcomed the AIB 2012 participants and offered their views on incorporating non-profit and government actors in global business education. GW-CIBER also played a major role in organizing an Ambassador’s panel which included the Ambassadors from India, South Africa, and Turkey. Read more about this on page 25. The AIB 2012 Gala Dinner, hosted by the University of Maryland and the George Washington University, was held in the National Building Museum.

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This summer, nine PhD students from across the U.S., had the opportunity to conduct research on GW-CIBER’s theme of Institutions, the State, and Development in International Business, in collaboration with GW faculty members. The students, part of GW-CIBER’s flagship Summer Doctoral Institute (SDI), were selected from a pool of candidates from top U.S. universities. In order to promote interaction and the development of a scholarly community, they lived together for two months in GW housing on the university’s downtown campus. Already in its fifth year, the SDI has been fostering a collaborative network of scholars coming from different disciplines, which contributes to a multi-perspective discussion and mutual learning. The SDI 2012 participants, for example, are pursuing doctoral studies in business, economics, political science, engineering, and international affairs, but they all came together prompted by a shared interest in researching issues related to international business and the GW-CIBER’s theme. By offering a research program on the Center’s theme to promising young scholars, GW-CIBER aims to inspire career-long inquiries into this important area and to give doctoral students the tools and knowledge necessary to incorporate such topics as integral elements of their courses from the very first time they teach. The heart of the SDI is the mentoring relationship between

the doctoral scholars and GW faculty members. In agreeing to participate in the SDI, faculty mentors commit themselves to being on campus during the two summer months when the students are at GW, and to be available for face-to-face interaction. Through their partnership with a GW mentor,

the students have the opportunity to co-author an article which can be presented at academic research conferences and submitted for publication in a high-quality peer-reviewed journal. GW faculty members, on the other hand, gain a great resource in the form of a motivated top doctoral student from any university in the country as a full-time research collaborator for the summer. SDI 2012 faculty

mentors came from the departments of International Business, Strategic Management and Public Policy, Decision Sciences, Information Systems & Technology Management, and Political Science, as well as from the Elliott School of International Affairs. Besides working on the research project with their chosen faculty mentor, the SDI 2012 students also had the opportunity to use various GW and Washington, D.C. resources, and to participate in research seminars, workshops, and conferences, including the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business, and the African Diaspora Marketplace co-sponsored by GW-CIBER.

GW-CIBER summer doctoral institute

I loved my experience at GWU. I got to meet and interact with so many amazing people - not only my mentor who worked closely with me and always praised my ambitions, but the many other faculty members and peers who came on the show during my summer there. This fantastic and unique learning opportunity also inspired me to think about my future research from a different or interdisciplinary perspective.

– Stephanie Wang, SDI 2012 Participant

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SDI 2012 participants & mentors

FEATURED PROJECT:trust and intellectual property rights: trade strategies between the united states and ghanaEsi Abbam Elliot & Susan Aaronson This study investigates how trust affects Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in trade relations and agreements. Specifically, the authors seek to understand what kind of institutional-based trust must be established in trade agreements to ensure the protection of IPR; how the implementation of IPR provision builds and ensures institutional-based trust in international business, and, finally, the characteristics of trust related to IPR. Trust relating to IPR issues in international trade between industrialized countries and developing countries occur when the stakeholders in the trading parties interact to enforce IPR laws to ensure that IP holders have their rights protected and receive their promised rents. This trust generates confidence between the trade partners and enhances international business. To investigate the research questions, this study adopts an exploratory and in-depth qualitative case studies approach. It attempts to generate a nuanced understanding of the different dimensions of institutional-based trust through the lens of the various stakeholders involved in international trade between the United States and one developing country, Ghana.

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Brodie Boland – Case Western Reserve University GW Mentor: Jorge Rivera

Esi Abbam Elliot – University of Illinois, Chicago GW Mentor: Susan Aaronson

Ayodeji Fajebe – Georgia Institute of Technology GW Mentor: Subhasish Dasgupta

Whitney Douglas Fernandez – Florida Int’l. University GW Mentor: Jorge Rivera

Yujia He - Georgia Institute of Technology GW Mentor: Bruce Dickson

Daniel Nogueira-Budny – University of Texas, Austin GW Mentor: Cynthia McClintock

Min Jae Suh – Virginia Tech GW Mentor: Young Hoon Kwak

Stephanie Wang – University of Miami GW Mentor: Robert Weiner

Jean Woroniecki – University of Pittsburgh GW Mentor: Jorge Walter

oil: industry, economy, society

finance for development

Advanced undergraduate and graduate students from GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs and the School of Business were recently offered the unique opportunity to enroll in a new class, “Oil: Industry, Economy and Society,” a course elective developed by International Business Professor Robert Weiner, with support from the GW-CIBER. This innovative course adopts a multidisciplinary approach to oil, as well as its effects on business, nation-states and the world economy, by examining it through the lens of political economy and management. The course uses oil as a vehicle for applying and deepening understanding of international-business concepts. As by far the largest global industry, oil reflects and influences broader sociopolitical issues and developments, facilitating its pedagogic use. The first half of the course utilizes a top-down viewpoint, examining the global oil environment. The second half is more bottom-up, using cases to grapple with industry issues. Some of the topics covered in the course include:

the development of the industry in a historical context; the causes and effects of resource nationalism and resource mercantilism; political risk and the negotiations between MNCs and oil-producing companies; the cause and effect of oil crises, the roles played by oil in society, including the rentier state and the resource curse. The multidisciplinary nature of the course attracted a healthy mix of students from across the two schools. The class boasts 16 of students from the Elliott School and 12 from the School of Business. Students cited a variety of reasons for their interest in the course. Some of the international affairs students, especially those enrolled in the Middle East Studies or the Latin American Studies programs, attributed their interest to the importance of oil in those regions. Some of the business students, on their other hand, decided to enroll in the course because of their interest in working for the energy sector. The diversity of the student backgrounds and interests engendered active and lively class participation.

Under an innovative partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), GW-CIBER supported the development of a graduate-level course on “Finance for Development”. Referred to as “F4D”, nine students from the School of Business and thirteen from the Elliott School of International Affairs participated in a course that was a hybrid of traditional class lectures/discussion and a project practicum with USAID’s Strategic Transactions Group, which is the lead office for its initiative to unlock commercial finance for development goals. The course was developed by Reid W. Click, Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs, who is also an advisor to USAID’s Office of Development Credit. The students studied topics in public-private partnerships, project finance, international capital market development, structured finance, microfinance, and impact investing. USAID provided or helped secure nine guest speakers to address these issues. With guidance from USAID as a client, students worked as consultants in teams to prepare concept notes for USAID to support their work in agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. After analyzing value chains for several agricultural products in countries chosen by USAID, teams selected interventions that they determined to be the most promising. The final recommendations were for rice warehousing facilities in Tanzania, micro-forestry development in Kenya, ethanol production using cassava in Nigeria, cocoa processing facilities in Ghana, and integration of the chickpea industry in Ethiopia. Several students from the class are pursuing careers in international development, and one leveraged the connections made from the class to secure a job with a private equity firm that operates in Africa.

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global business project 2012Promoting Experiential Learning

The best way to learn about doing business internationally is to actually do it. In May 2012, five GW graduate students did just that – they immersed themselves in the lives of global consultants by participating in the annual Global Business Project (GBP) offered by a consortium of several CIBERs

and led by the CIBER of the University y of North Carolina. For three months, the multi-school teams met virtually to devise solutions to actual business problems faced by real clients operating internationally. The students then spent two weeks working on their projects in-country, honing their language skills, and ultimately presenting their final recommendations to the executives in their client companies. Already in its fifth year, the GBP program has been enjoying a great success among students and clients, and has more than doubled in size in terms of participating schools and companies and number of projects. The GBP is a unique experiential-learning course for MBA and other Master’s-level students who gain: international business experience to complement their academic work; access to companies that recruit graduates at their level; an opportunity to work with fellow students from different background, countries, and schools – in a virtual and face-to-face team setting; and exposure to consulting skills

and frameworks. On the other hand, the benefits for the client include: high-quality, fact-based, and actionable recommendations; professional presentation; and access to some of the world’s brightest graduate students as potential interns and full-time employees. Teams are formed through a competitive application process with students drawn from any of the consortium schools. They offer collective competence in the language of their destination country as well as in the functional areas that the specific project encompasses. Four of the five GW students that participated in the GBP 2012 were enrolled in the MBA program and one student was enrolled in the MA in International Trade and Investment Policy program of the Elliott School of International Affairs. The projects to which they were assigned featured companies such as Quintiles (pharmaceuticals), Genpact (business process and management services),

Westinghouse (energy), Teevo (IT services), and PPG (industrial coatings). The business challenges that the teams addressed included industry and market research and exploring ways to enter a market, expand a market share, and improve the manufacturing capacities in order to meet an increasing demand. The GBP 2012 destination countries were Brazil, China, India, and Thailand.

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some past & current clients

consulting abroad projects For a second year in a row, the GW-CIBER played a critical role in supporting the GW MBA Consulting Abroad Projects (CAPs), a required component of the Global MBA curriculum for all first-year students. The CAP program is a three-course sequence in the second half of the spring semester which prepares and immerses students in a consulting project experience for an overseas client. The sequence begins with the International Management (IM) course, which provides students with the theoretical framework for understanding important issues relevant to international business. Students also participate in an international consultancy practicum lab that introduces them to their consulting assignment and provides them with an opportunity to begin designing solutions to the problem they are addressing. At the conclusion of the IM course and the practicum lab, students travel overseas to the client host country for a two-week period to finalize their projects and make final recommendations to the organizations abroad. During the two weeks in-country, the students also participate in site visits with relevant companies and organizations. The GW CAP program is a centerpiece of the Global MBA curriculum and provides students with the opportunity to gain deeper expertise in a specific country, industry or sector. The CAPs are, therefore, carefully selected and designed to meet the interests of our students and contribute to their professional development in areas that are important to them.

BRAZIL: Students worked with a local NGO, Projeto Saude e Alegria (PSA), to explore how various business models and ideas can contribute to an increased standard of living of subsistence communities in the Brazilian Amazon while conserving the fragile natural environment of the area.INDIA: Students worked with the Global Research and Analytics (GRA) division of an Indian rating agency to evaluate the potential for their expansion in the U.S. market. Students examined how changes in the U.S. regulatory environment in the banking finance service and insurance sector have created opportunities and challenges for potential expansion.PERU: Students worked with the Strategy department of Belcorp, one of the leading beauty products company in Latin America. The project consisted of developing the social innovation strategy for the firm, and suggesting mechanisms to integrate it with the company’s global business strategy.RWANDA: Students worked in small teams on four different projects. For a leading microfinance bank, one team worked on a procedure to develop an agent network and another performed a feasibility study for new microinsurance products. One team analyzed the profit potential in several Rwanda industry sectors for a local business development agency. Another client, a dairy quality testing laboratory, engaged a group to develop marketing materials for its services.SWEDEN: Students worked with three Swedish CleanTech companies to perform environmental analyses of the U.S. CleanTech market, its regulatory and institutional landscape, as well as competitive analyses in preparation of the clients’ market entry into or expansion in the U.S.TURKEY: Students worked with clients from two different industries: automotive manufacturing and health care. Some students were assigned to Ford Otoson to work on a variety of projects focused on marketing, human resources, IT, and market entry, while the remaining students worked for Acibadem, a Turkish Hospital Group, to develop a market entry strategy into the U.S. health care market.

CAP 2012 countries & projects

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Despite the increased awareness of the importance of language proficiency for international business, the absence of high-quality business language teaching materials and professional guidance still pose challenges for schools which seek to incorporate business language courses into their curriculum. These difficulties are particularly pronounced for business language teaching in the less-commonly-taught (but critical for the U.S. competitiveness) languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc. In an effort to fill this gap, GW-CIBER has established itself as a regional leader in business language teaching, by partnering with GW language faculty to develop courses and advanced course materials in the above languages, including videos and case studies, to be used in the language classroom. Additionally, we support the professional development of business language instructors from the DC area. We offer interactive language immersion and themed workshops where participants learn about best practices in teaching a specific language or specific topics applicable to all languages. Finally, GW-CIBER works with the National Capital Lang-uage Resource Center (NCLRC) by supporting its Summer Institutes which provide much needed training opportunities for K-12 language instructors.

Our GW-CIBER Business Languages program flourished in 2011-2012 with a wide variety of exciting projects and programs. We kicked the year off with an intensive three-day workshop on Business Case Writing, bringing together local and regional foreign language professionals in a challenging yet supportive atmosphere. Our goal in teaching a method for writing business cases geared towards business language learning is to help get the GW-CIBER Business Language Case Clearinghouse off the ground. The Clearinghouse will provide cases and teaching plans to foreign language teachers nationwide. Later in the year, we were invited to present a one-day version of this workshop at the University of Pennsylvania to many eager and engaged participants. Over the course of the entire year, other GW language professors put enormous energy into their GW-CIBER-supported projects: GW Professor of Russian Richard Robin planned and filmed his Russian Business Case and Video project. Professor Phyllis Zhang prepared her Chinese Business Language Immersion workshop for Chinese instructors, where she and her students held a lively presentation and demonstration of her Business Chinese course activities. This summer we forged an even stronger link between the National Capital Language Resource Center and GW-CIBER Business Languages programming through the launch of a Business Language-focused column in the NCLRC’s monthly newsletter. Be sure to read the latest column and then check back for the new issue each month: http://www.nclrc.org/newsletter.html. GW-CIBER was well represented at the National CIBER Business Languages Conference in Chapel Hill last spring. We presented a poster on our innovative programs such as “Study Abroad @ Home,” as well as a session on business language cases. At the conference banquet, we were thrilled to hear the announcement that a team of GW Spanish instructors were awarded a Business Language Research and Teaching (BLRT) Grant!

- Dr. Margaret Gonglewski & Dr. Anna Helm, GW-CIBER Business Language Coordinators

a note from the businesslanguage coordinators

Advancing Education in Business Languages

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China’s increasingly important role in the global economy has been recognized worldwide, and speaking Chinese has transformed from a nice-to-have skill to almost a requirement for someone who seeks career opportunities in China, Taiwan, or Singapore for example, or in companies which do business with these countries. Knowing Chinese may give someone an edge when competing for a position with such companies, and may improve their chances for promotion in the future. Acknowledging this trend, many schools in the U.S. have started offering Chinese language courses which attract great interest from students. However, most Chinese courses do not extend their focus beyond the traditional language instruction of grammar, vocabulary, literature, and cultural nuances. This is usually enough for students who plan to use the language predominantly for travel, communication, reading and research, or other similar purposes. However, students who wish to use Chinese in a business context may face certain challenges because business has its own language and rules. For instance, how you present yourself in the context of a job interview in Chinese may be different than how you present yourself when conducting casual conversations with friends, shop-keepers, tourist guides, or random people you meet when travelling. That is why incorporating business context into Chinese language class material has become a priority for GW-CIBER, resulting in a stand-alone Business Chinese course developed by Dr. Phyllis Zhang and sponsored by our Center.

Dr. Zhang, a Chinese Language professor and Director of the Chinese Program at GW, recently led a professional development seminar for Chinese language faculty as part of GW-CIBER’s business language immersion event series. In this seminar, she shared her experience in developing and teaching the Business Chinese course and provided ideas, materials, and motivation to the participants – Chinese instructors from D.C.-area universities and language trainers from the World Bank. The full-day workshop included a welcome address in Chinese by GWSB Dean Doug Guthrie, a segment on Business Chinese course development, as well as presentations on doing business in China (by Dr. Yan Wang, Senior Economist, The World Bank Institute) and on U.S.-China economic relations (by Dr. Jiawen Yang, GWSB Professor of International Business and International Affairs). The program also featured demos delivered in Chinese by advanced-level students from Dr. Zhang’s Business Chinese class. They were a particular hit among the participants, who witnessed first-hand how specific teaching techniques have resulted in applicable class projects including simulated business proposals, market analyses, and operation plans. The day ended with a visit to the Embassy of China where their Education Office gave workshop participants a tour of the building, a briefing on the current developments in Chinese language teaching and learning in the U.S., and a movie presentation on China.

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workshop on writing business cases for business language instruction Business case studies are a natural fit with business language courses. Reading materials contextualize vocabulary used in business settings, and in-class discussions and case-based role play scenarios compel students to actively use business vocabulary in context to improve mastery. However, the few cases that exist in less commonly taught languages are often at an inappropriate level of proficiency or have business-related content that is not widely accessible by language students. To fill this gap, in 2010 GW-CIBER launched a Business Language Case Series comprised of several cases that can be used in Business Language courses nationwide. Currently, language faculty in Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, and Russian are working on the development of business cases in their respective language. The case materials will also include teaching notes featuring tasks to develop both business vocabulary and language proficiency. In order to prepare the language professors for this undertaking, we held a three-day workshop on how to write business cases for the business language classroom. Following an introduction to business cases and their use for teaching business languages, the workshop leaders, Drs. Margaret Gonglewski and Anna Helm, walked the group through the process of composing an interview-based case from start to finish: defining a goal and a topic; selecting a company and making the initial contact; preparing for

the interview and formulating pointed interview questions; focusing the case topic and making it accessible to language students; writing the case by following a suggested format; and preparing teaching notes that are workable for language teachers. The workshop leaders shared their experience in writing their own business case for teaching Business German, which focuses on a small start-up company selling fair-trade organic t-shirts in Cologne, Germany. Also discussed were the best ways to develop in-class tasks and assignments to help students get the most out of their experience with a case. The workshop was attended by over twenty participants,

including language faculty from regional universities and high schools, independent language consultants, and language trainers and experts from the World Bank. The extremely positive feedback has encouraged us to continue working in the area of business case development, and we are planning to offer another extended workshop which will showcase the accomplishments of our faculty in the other languages that are within GW-CIBER’s focus.

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creating videos for the language classroom Video brings business contexts and national culture to life by conveying valuable information such as eye contact, gestures, physical distance between speakers, voice inflection, and tone. Therefore, we believe that adding video chapters (with accompanying dynamic exercises) to business cases and other language material with business themes will greatly enrich the learning process in the business language classroom. With this purpose in mind, with the new 2010-2014 grant cycle, we launched the GW-CIBER Business Language Video Series. GW-CIBER language

A full-fledged multi-media business case for Russian is about to reach intermediate Russian-language classrooms. A supplement to intermediate level CIBER Business Russian (www.gwu.edu/~slavic/ciber), “The Nashestvie Rock Festival” tells of a decision to repair a partnership between two Moscow media companies, ensuring the subsequent survival of Russia’s biggest annual rock festival.In business schools, students learn about decision making through cases. In business-oriented foreign-language classes, students must not only arrive at a decision, they must acquire the necessary language to support their choice. The web-based Nashestvie case gives students a basic print narrative intermingled with video interviews with the principal actors. Accompanying exercises prompt students to incorporate the speakers’ words and rhetorical devices into their own repertoire. The case ends with a simulation in which students play the roles of advisers to the principal characters. The Nashestvie case follows the format of other mini-cases in CIBER Business Russian, but is closer in length and complexity to a full-fledged business case. To collect material for the case, GW Russian professor Richard Robin, traveled to Russia in the summers of 2011 and 2012 to for on-camera interviews with the main players and to record behind-the-scenes preparations for the festival. The case makes its debut in GW Russian classes in spring 2013.

FEATURED PROJECT: faculty in Arabic, Chinese, German, Korean, Japanese, and Russian have been working on complementing their business case writing endeavors with the creation of related short videos. So far, these efforts have resulted in almost completed multi-media business case presentations in German and Russian, with the projects in the other languages well under way.

HBCU fellows program

GW-CIBER is doing tremendous work helping HBCU faculty to sufficiently improve their professional skills and gain much better take on international business research and teaching. Thanks to the program, my students are well prepared to trade and work with the South American countries, enjoy cultural diversity and understand new challenges of globalization. The program is well balanced and delivered in a productive and interesting format. People working there deserve greatest appreciation for their resourcefulness, patience, human touch and readiness to always walk another mile towards making the program look easy and enjoyable.– Dr. Nikolai Ostapenko, GW-CIBER Fellow, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of the District of Columbia

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In 2010, GW-CIBER launched its HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Fellows Program, with the purpose of reaching out to predominantly minority-serving institutions in the DC area and assisting with the internationalization of their business curriculum. Under this initiative, the Center has established partnerships with three universities - Howard, Morgan State, and the University of the District of Columbia - by appointing a faculty member from each school to serve as a GW-CIBER Fellow for the 2010-2014 grant period. The Fellows receive advanced training necessary to offer high quality, full-length courses related to business in developing countries in their home institutions. After starting off with a complimentary attendance of

our faculty development workshop on Succeeding in Emerging & Developing Markets (June 2011), the Fellows were offered full support to participate in overseas faculty development study tours (FDIBs). One Fellow chose to travel to China with the FDIB program offered by the University of Colorado at Denver, and the other two Fellows participated in Florida International University CIBER’s FDIB to the MERCOSUR region (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile). These trips provided the Fellows with the opportunity to meet with business executives and scholars, explore research opportunities, learn about the business environment and cultural and economic idiosyncrasies of the visited countries, and network with other faculty with similar research and teaching interests. The Fellows also received materials that can be used in new course development and case studies. Currently, as part of the HBCU Program, the Fellows are attending (in class and online) GW undergraduate and graduate courses which will further expose them to international business teaching methods that they can later adopt in their own course instruction.

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HBCU fellow profilesDr. Masoud Kavoossi is currently a tenured professor who teaches International Business courses at Howard University in Washington, DC. He has had graduate and undergraduate appointments at American University, Sellinger School of Business, Loyola College, Georgetown University, and R.H. Smith School of Business. He was awarded Distinguished University Chair Professor at Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, P.R. China (2010), Distinguished University Chair Professor of International Business at South Western University of Finance Economics, P.R. China, and a visiting scholar/lecturer to the Kuopio Polytechnic Intercultural Business Program, Finland. In addition, he has served as graduate faculty of Industrial Management Institute, Tehran, Iran. He is the author of numerous scholarly journal articles and cases including his book “Globalization of Business and the Middle East”. He is a holder of the 2003-04, Fulbright-Johannes Kepler Distinguished Chair Professor of International Business in Austria. Dr. Kavoossi received his PhD from the Catholic University of America.

 

DR. MASOUD KAVOOSSI

DR. NIKOLAI OSTAPENKO

DR. DARLINGTON RICHARDS

Dr. Nikolai Ostapenko currently serves as an Associate Professor with the School of Business and Public Administration of the University of the District of Columbia as well as president, board director, and consultant for international humanitarian organizations in Washington, DC. Nikolai holds PhD and Dr Sc degrees from St. Petersburg University with a specialty in Developmental Economics and International Economic Theory. His previous experience includes faculty and research positions with renowned universities in England, Russia, Sweden, and the U.S. He has held many visiting and research appointments in several countries, including GW-CIBER Fellow, British Council fellow, Stockholm University scholar, St. Petersburg University and Moscow University research scholar in residence. An expert in the area of transnational management and international development, Dr. Ostapenko has published over 142 academic books, articles, and research papers. He also teaches part-time at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

 

Dr. Darlington Richards is an Associate Professor of Management and International Business at Morgan State University. Dr. Richards is also a Visiting Professor at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. He also serves as both a Fellow and Consultant to the International Dispute Resolution Institute. Dr. Richards graduated from Law Schools at both the University of Jos and the Nigerian Law School, has a Masters Degree in Tax Law from the University of Baltimore and a PhD in Management from Sheffield H. University. Dr. Richards teaches classes in International Business, Marketing Management, Entrepreneurship, Business Law and Legal and Ethical Environment of Business. He has published extensively in the areas of Privatization, Market Reform, Law Reform for Emerging Economies and Ethics in Business. Dr. Richards has won many awards including the Emerald Literati Award, Morgan State University and University of Baltimore Outstanding Service Awards, and the IAABD Recognition of Service Award.

 

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In partnership with the International Business Society, a GW student-run organization, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. government’s development finance institution, GW-CIBER hosted a one-day interactive symposium focused on the private sector’s role in addressing the development challenges in today’s emerging and frontier markets. The objective of the event was to highlight the business case for tackling social needs and to identify best practices associated with market based solutions to development challenges. The event featured an array of over twenty high-caliber speakers and panelists from the corporate, NGO and policy communities. The event began with opening remarks from Elizabeth Littlefield, President and CEO of OPIC and then led into a historical framework discussion by Francis Skrobiszewski, former Vice President of the Polish-American Enterprise Fund. The first panel addressed the topic of Impact Investing and included speakers from key organizations such as OPIC, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF), and Total Impact Advisors. The panel session underscored the importance of impact investing and discussed some of the different

investment models that are emerging in today’s developing world. After a keynote address from Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft, about the future of corporate emerging markets strategy, the afternoon consisted of additional panel discussions which focused on public-private partnerships and lessons learned from the field. Notable panelists included Dane Smith, Managing Director of FSG Social Impact Advisors, Sarah Thorn, Senior Director, Federal Government Relations, Walmart, Robert Schneider, Senior Alliance Advisory, USAID; and Bruce McNamer, President and CEO of TechnoServe. The event took place in the OPIC Boardroom, an intimate setting that allowed for interactive discussion among panelists and members of the audience. The event was attended by over 80 individuals across a range of sectors, including students and faculty from GW and other local universities, as well as members of the business and policy communities. Video of each panel discussion can be accessed via GW-CIBER Video Library at the following link: http://business.gwu.edu/CIBER/gwciberresources/videolibrary/videoLibDF.cfm .

conference on the ‘private sector’s evolving role in meeting development challenges’

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african diaspora marketplace II GW business students had the unique opportunity to learn first-hand about new innovative entrepreneurial business ideas when they served as reviewers for a major business plan competition targeted to members of the U.S. based African Diaspora. The business plan competition, which is referred to as the African Diaspora Marketplace II, is funded by USAID and Western Union and was developed as a mechanism to engage the African diaspora in the development of their homeland. Because of its focal area interest and expertise in the area of “Diaspora Investment and Entrepreneurship,” GW-CIBER was asked to serve as a partner to the ADM II project and provide assistance with various facets of the business plan competition. The African Diaspora Marketplace was launched in January 2012 when members of the African diaspora were invited to submit initial concept proposals about innovative and high-impact ideas for start-up and established businesses in Africa. The proposed ventures were required to be related to high-impact sectors in Africa, including agribusiness, renewable energy, and information and communication technology (ICT). The competition generated over 500 initial

concept proposal submissions, and GW business students selected the top 150 semi-finalists to move into the next phase of the competition. After another selective round, 44 finalists were invited to Washington, DC from June 23 to June 24 to present their full business plans in front of a panel of judges and to showcase their business ideas in an interactive marketplace event. The two-day marketplace event was hosted by the GW-CIBER and took place on GW’s campus in the Marvin Center conference space. On June 24, the final winners were announced in a high-profile awards

ceremony that featured a moderated discussion with famed African entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Elumelu and award-winning actor, investor in Africa, and philanthropist Jeffrey Wright. Of the 44 finalists, 17 businesses were selected as awardees of the African Diaspora Marketplace II and given cash grants of up to $50,000 and additional funds for technical assistance ranging from $10,000 to $20,000. Some examples of the awardees include: Oribags Innovations Ltd, a social and environmental enterprise in Uganda that manufactures hand-made ecobags out of agricultural waste; MedEnhanz Resources Ltd, a start-up venture that aims to improve patient care delivery in Nigeria by developing technology that provides up-to-date medical information readily available to healthcare professionals; and Pork Delights Limited (PDL), an established Kenyan Agribusiness pig farming entity looking to expand its annual pig production to meet a 50% supply deficit to the primary regional meat processors. More information about the ADM competition, including the list of finalists, can be accessed via the following link: http://www.diasporamarketplace.org/ . 23

‘women in international business’ panel We know that more and more women are joining the global workforce and that there are a number of positive effects of this trend on societal issues, including the advancement of human rights and the increases in female education. But, is there also a business case for investing in women in the global workforce? This was the topic of a panel discussion organized by GW-CIBER and international careers expert and award-winning author, Stacie Berdan. In her opening lecture remarks, Ms. Berdan outlined the case for why it is imperative for organizations to invest in women. Berdan stated that recent research has revealed companies with stronger gender diversity among executives significantly outperform companies that are male-dominated. Moreover, a Harvard Business Review article by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman suggests that women are better leaders because of the higher marks given to them by their bosses, peers and direct reports in nearly all of the 16 leadership competencies from

the over 7,000 leaders surveyed in their study. Berdan also made the case that while it is important to invest in women, it is even more critical for organizations to invest in “women internationalists.” In an increasingly global economy, and one in which women control over 65% of the annual global consumer spending, women should be encouraged and incentivized to take on international assignments and other similar engagements that will prepare them for global leadership. According to the Nielsen Company, “women are the biggest emerging market ever seen.” Therefore, we need to ensure that women, themselves, the ones that are most knowledgable about their own consumer product preferences and spending patterns, are represented in greater numbers in the top management and boards of companies. After Berdan’s opening remarks, the event transitioned into a moderated discussion among six women internationalists who shared their own

personal stories, professional tips, and practical advice about their careers in international business. The panel showcased the depth and variety of international careers across sectors by not only featuring women from the corporate sector (Kraft Foods), but also women working in government (Federal Aviation Administration) and women in the non-governmental sector (Vital Voices Partnership). Questions posed to the panelists included: How did you land your first international assignment?; Can you provide an example of when you felt being a woman had a positive impact on an international situation?; What role do you see women around the world playing in economic development? The full video recording of this event can be accessed via GW-CIBER’s Video Library at the following link: h t tp : / /bus iness.gwu.edu/CIBER/gwc ibe r resou rces / v i deo l i b ra r y /videoLibPDE.cfm .

This event was featured in an article in the Huffington Post!This article can be accessed via the following link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacie-nevadomski-berdan/investing-in-women-pays-o_b_1437322.html

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AIB ambassador’s panel

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To leverage this year’s Academy of International Business conference location and theme, the GW-CIBER organized a high-profile plenary session featuring a panel of distinguished ambassadors who discussed the topic of institutional reform in emerging markets. The ambassadors included Amb. Ebrahim Rasool from the Embassy of South Africa, Amb. Namk Tan from the Embassy of Turkey, and Amb. Arun K. Singh from the Embassy of India. The three ambassadors were selected for their countries’ remarkable achievements in the area of institutional reform and enormous potential for continued economic growth. In fact, the three countries represented in the panel were listed as one of Bloomberg’s “most emerging markets” for 2012. The event, which was moderated by Liesl Riddle, Associate Dean of MBA Programs at the GW School of Business, included three main discussion areas. The first topic was foreign direct investment and the ambassadors were asked to provide a quick commercial

to the audience on why they believe their country is an attractive location for foreign investment. The second topic was institutional reform and the ambassadors were asked to discuss what institutional developments or reforms their country has implemented to strengthen the private sector and what challenges they perceive to remain in this area. The third topic was civil society and the ambassadors were asked to comment on how civil society has played a role in institutional reform in their country. After the moderated portion of the event, the audience, which included over 250 faculty members from universities across the world, posed questions to the panelists on various topics, such as emerging market MNCs and political risk. The Ambassador’s Panel provided a unique opportunity for the audience of university professors to acquire relevant and timely information about emerging markets that they will be able to incorporate into their teaching and research.

From left to right:Arun K. Singh, DCM,

Embassy of IndiaLiesl Riddle, Associate Dean for MBA

Programs, GWU, Panel ModeratorEbrahim Rasool, Ambassador,

Embassy of South AfricaNamk Tan, Ambassador,

Embassy of Turkey

Reid ClickAssociate Professor of International Business and

International Affairs

Michael Moore Professor of Economics and International Affairs;

Former Director, Institute for International Economic Policy

Anupama Phene Associate Professor of International Business,

Phillip Grub Professorial Fellow

Susan Sell Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Institute for Global and International Studies

Stephen Smith Professor of Economics and International Affairs;

Former Director, Institute for International Economic Policy

Jennifer SpencerCoelho Professorial Fellow and Associate Professor of

International Business & International Affairs

Robert Weiner Professor of International Business, Public Administration, and International Affairs;

Associate Director, Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute

Anna Helm Assistant Professor of International Business

Nevena Yakova Program Manager

Alexis Gaul Administrative Director

Margaret Gonglewski Associate Professor of German and International Affairs

DIRECTOR

FOCAL AREA FACULTY COORDINATORS

BUSINESS LANGUAGES FACULTY COORDINATORS

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Jennifer Brinkerhoff Professor of Public Administration, International Affairs &

International Business; Co-Director of GW’s Diaspora Program

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GW-CIBER Administrators & Advisors

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Shmuel Ben-GadBusiness Specialist, Gelman Library System,

The George Washington University

Wade ChannellSenior Legal Advisor, U.S. Agency for

International Development (USAID)

George CoelhoManaging Director and Head of Venture Capital,

Good Energies, LLP

Bernard DemczukAssistant Vice President for District of Columbia

Relations, The George Washington University

Mihir DesaiPresident, Dexis Consulting

Shoko HamanoProfessor of Japanese and International Affairs;

Director, GW Language Center, The George Washington University

Brian KennerChief of Staff, Deputy Mayor Office of Planning

and Economic Development (DMPED)

Corinna LathanBoard Chair and CEO, AnthroTronix, Inc.

Danny LeipzigerProfessor of Practice of International Business,

The George Washington University;VP for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (Retired), the World Bank

Taj MeahIndependent Information Technology and

Services Professional;Business Development Executive (Retired), IBM

Rex PinglePresident and CEO, PMD International

Pradeep RauProfessor of Marketing, The George Washington University

Fernando RoblesProfessor of International Business and International Affairs, The George Washington University

Donna ScarboroAssociate Vice President, Office of International Programs, The George Washington University

Jennifer SpencerChair, Department of International Business; Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs, The George Washington University

Murat TarimcilarVice Dean of Programs and Education; Professor of Decision Sciences, The George Washington University

Christopher VizasDirector, Smart Wave, Inc.

Rebecca WanekDirector of Development, The George Washington University

Barbara WeiselAssistant U.S. Trade Representative for South-east Asia and the Pacific, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

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The national CIBER program, founded under the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 and administered through the U.S. Department of Education, links U.S. businesses with the expertise of U.S. universities in areas of international education, language train-ing, and research. Thirty-three universities are designated as CIBERs to serve as regional and national resources for businesses, students, educators, and academics. Together, the CIBERs form a powerful network focused on meeting the personnel and information needs of American businesses. The CIBER network serves to enhance U.S. competitiveness and provide programs and services that help U.S. businesses succeed in global markets.

GW-CIBERThe George Washington University School of Business

Duques Hall, Suite 4502201 G Street, NW

Washington, DC 20052

ciber@gwu.edu202-994-3098

http://business.gwu.edu/CIBER