IB Program Raked 10th Best i the Natio Global Perspectives A Newsletter Published by The Fox School s Temple CIBER ad Istitute of Global Maagemet Studies Volume 11 umber 1 academic year 08 09 Joural of Iteratioal Maagemet Accepted for Iclusio i Social Sciece Citatio Idex The Fox School of Busiess highly competitive Joural of Iteratioal Maagemet (JIM) was accepted for iclusio i the Social Sciece Citatio Idex (SSCI) i Jue. The acceptace is a great accomplishmet for a fairly ew joural ad is a testamet to the joural s overall excellece, said Fox School Dea M. Moshe Porat. Iclusio i SSCI, the oldest ad most prestigious citatio idex, will provide legitimizatio of the academic quality ad itegrity of JIM worldwide. Although JIM has bee recogized by may researchers as excellet, it did ot previously have istitutioal legitimacy. May uiversities aroud the world use SSCI-listed jourals for promotio ad teure purposes. Now that JIM is SSCI accredited, may more researchers will submit mauscripts to JIM for publicatio cosideratio. This is a great hoor for a relatively ew joural like JIM. It serves as a idicator of JIM s excellet track record i may areas, icludig the expertise of the editorial board members who represet more tha 50 istitutios, spaig 20 coutries worldwide, their high-quality mauscript reviews, the professioal editorial process, ad the excellece of articles writte by a variety of authors with a vested iterest i the quality of the joural, said Dr. Masaaki Mike Kotabe, JIM editor sice 2002. JIM is devoted to advacig the uderstadig of issues i the maagemet of global eterprises ad global maagemet theory ad practice, while simultaeously providig theoretical ad maagerial implicatios useful for the further d e v e l o p m e t of research. It serves a audiece of academic researchers ad educators, as well as busiess professioals. Sice its iauguratio i 1995, JIM, housed at the Istitute of Global Maagemet Studies ad Ceter for Iteratioal Busiess Educatio ad Research (CIBER), has see its readership icrease dramatically. Icreasigly, academics ad practitioers look at the articles the joural publishes i areas icludig iteratioal busiess strategy, comparative ad cross-cultural maagemet, orgaizatioal behavior ad huma resource maagemet. From 2001 to 2007, electroic dowloads, a reasoable idicator of readership, icreased almost tefold from 6,897 to 66,107. JIM is quickly gaiig recogitio ad visibility i a competitive iteratioal busiess joural market, said Kim Cahill, director of Temple CIBER, who has served as JIM s maagig editor sice 2003. Iclusio i SSCI is a compellig sig that JIM is a importat player as a resource i the world of iteratioal busiess ad research. U.S. News & World Report Raks Fox Udergraduate IB Program i Top 10 I its 2008 rakigs, for the secod year i a row, U.S. News & World Report raked the udergraduate Iteratioal Busiess (IB) program of Temple Uiversity s Fox School of Busiess amog the Top 10 programs i the U.S. The IB program was raked as 10th best. Iteratioal Busiess Fox s Iteratioal Busiess udergraduate program focuses o what it takes for its graduates to succeed i the global marketplace. Oe of the program s stregths is that studets must demostrate foreig laguage proficiecy at a fourth semester level. Our globally competet studets are aware of the dyamics of a globalized ecoomy ad its impact o busiess fuctios i domestic ad iteratioal compaies. Studets also lear about the iteractios betwee iteratioal relatios ad iteratioal busiess, ad the role played by iteratioal compaies i global trade ad commerce, said Arvid Phatak, Laura H. Carell Professor of Cotiued o page 2
EDUCATING GIRLS IN INDIA 2 Statistics professor makes educatio possible for girls i rural Idia I the Idia village of Rathora, i the state of Uttar Pradesh, is a beautiful campus i the coutryside a secodary school for girls. The Hoshiari Devi Girls School is the braichild of Statistics professor at the Fox School of Busiess, Jagbir Sigh, ad his wife, Veea Sigh. Sigh, whose research has focused o modelig volatility i fiacial time series ad semi-parametric models i survival aalysis, bega developig the Hoshiari Devi Girls School i 1995 after receivig a moetary grat from the Temple Great Teacher Award. The school opeed its doors i 1998. While primary schools i Idia are co-ed, secodary schools ted to be separated by sex, ad girls schools are seldom built i the coutryside. Girls usually have to walk three to four miles to atted school, makig their educatio tedious or eglected. Hoshiari Devi Girls School stads out ot oly i its very existece, but also i its quality. There is a full campus ot just a schoolhouse with computers ad athletic facilities. Last year, 28 out of 30 graduates passed the state educatio board examiatio (the Idia equivalet of the SAT) with distictio. Three of the girls wet o to college. The idea for the school emerged i 1982 after the death of Sigh s mother, who lived i Rathora util she married, ad remaied ueducated. I wated to do somethig i hoor of my mother s memory. She isisted o our beig educated ad said we should be schooled istead of workig o the farm, said Sigh. The lad for the school campus was doated by the village. Still, the cost of ruig the school, from trasportatio to classrooms to laboratories, is ot met by the $3 mothly fee charged to studets may of whom caot afford to pay eve this amout. To help, a umber of usolicited doors have also stepped i. Oe such door is Arvid Phatak, professor of geeral ad strategic maagemet ad executive director for the Ceter for Iteratioal Busiess Educatio Research at the Fox School. I kow the coditio of villages i Idia is quite differet from those of the cities ad schoolig is very difficult, said Phatak, who also hails from Idia. I was impressed that a colleague of mie would have the foresight ad heart to embark o this missio of educatig girls i a Idia village ad givig them a opportuity to go to school. To read more about the school, visit www.rathoragirlsschool.org. The site was desiged by the Sigh family ad icorporates ideas from the girls attedig the school. U.S. NEWS rakigs Cotiued from page 1 Maagemet ad Iteratioal Busiess, executive director of Temple s Istitute for Global Maagemet Studies (IGMS) ad the Ceter for Iteratioal Busiess Educatio ad Research (CIBER). Fox s udergraduate iteratioal busiess program is supported by its high-profile CIBER oe of oly 31 such ceters i the U.S., the high quality of its faculty, ad the prestigious joural it produces, the Joural of Iteratioal Maagemet, edited by reowed Geeral ad Strategic Maagemet Professor Masaaki Mike Kotabe. Other program highlights iclude a iteratioal busiess capstoe course that eables studets to apply IB tools ad methods to solve real busiess cases. All studets develop a foreig market etry strategy for a small- to medium-size eterprise i the regio. Aother otable feature of the Fox IB program is the School s ogoig relatioship with Dubai Wome s College (DWC) i which Fox studets work i teams with studets from DWC o iteratioal busiess projects. The IB program also offers two iterdiscipliary certificates of specializatio i Asia Busiess ad Society, ad i Lati America Studies ad Spaish for Busiess. Studets complete coursework i area studies, a foreig laguage, ad specialty IB coursework to further stregthe their kowledge of the icreasigly globalized world. To icrease studets iteratioal exposure, IB majors are strogly ecouraged to study abroad. I additio to its campuses i Rome ad Tokyo, Temple CIBER admiisters busiess programs i Idia, Chia, Frace, Irelad, Brazil, ad Mexico, providig customized advisig ad fiacial assistace. Professor Jagbir Sigh (far right) recogizes Hoshiar Devi studets who have excelled i academics ad those who have excelled i sports at a school ceremoy.
world laguages day Fox MBA Raked Amog Top Programs Globally By The Ecoomist Temple s World Laguages Day celebrates 10th Year The Ecoomist has raked the MBA program at the Fox School of Busiess at Temple Uiversity amog the top programs globally ad amog the best i the atio i their 2008-2009 Which MBA rakigs. This marks the secod time the Fox School has bee recogized by The Ecoomist i its highly selective rakig of global MBA programs. I the regio, the Fox School ad the Wharto School of the Uiversity of Pesylvaia were the oly two Philadelphia-area MBA programs to be raked. 3 We are pleased The Ecoomist has recogized the Fox School amog the top schools i the atio ad the world, said M. Moshe Porat, dea of the Fox School. Beig icluded i this rakig is a testamet to the exceptioal quality of our studets, faculty, staff ad alumi ad the tremedous value that a Fox MBA provides. I this Ecoomist global rakig, Fox placed amog the top 50 programs i the U.S. ad amog the top 100 i the world. This demostrates Fox s reputatio as a iteratioal busiess school. The Fox School s expasio of its Iteratioal MBA ad Executive MBA programs ito Europe, Lati America, Asia ad Australia uderscore the school s commitmet to global busiess educatio, said Vice Dea, Dr. Raja Chadra. This year, the seveth year of Which MBA rakigs, The Ecoomist ivited 131 busiess schools from 23 differet coutries to participate i the rakig survey. Results were based o surveys of curret studets ad alumi, ad o data provided by schools. The studet ad alumi surveys measure the career success ad satisfactio of studets, how a school opes ew career opportuities, the persoal ad professioal developmet ad educatioal experiece provided to studets, studets post-gradu- Cotiued o page 9 Temple Professor Gordo Witty teaches a itroductory Arabic class. Learig a foreig laguage is becomig icreasigly importat for today s college studets. I a effort to highlight the importace of studyig foreig laguages, area studies ad culture, Temple Ceter for Iteratioal Busiess Educatio Research (CIBER) ad Uiversity Foreig Laguage Departmets hosted 250 area high school studets ad teachers o Temple s Mai Campus to celebrate World Laguages Day o March 29, 2008. This was the 10th year Temple has hosted the evet. The aual daylog evet icluded guest speakers ad presetatios o study abroad programs, Lati America studies; history of Weimar Germay, Cofucia Ethics; itroductory classes i Korea, Arabic, Russia ad Chiese, as well as visits to regular uiversity laguage classes ad special laboratory multi-media tech sessios. Iteratioal busiess is the fastest-growig major i the Fox School of Busiess, with more tha 600 studets erolled. Studets who are studyig iteratioal busiess are required to demostrate proficiecy i a foreig laguage, said Kimberly Cahill, director of the Fox Busiess School Istitute for Global Maagemet Studies ad CIBER. The U.S. is the oly idustrialized atio that routiely graduates studets from high school who lack kowledge of a foreig laguage. Foreig laguage skills, especially critical laguages like Chiese ad Arabic, combied with itercultural sesitivity, are essetial to U.S. competitiveess ad atioal security i today s global eviromet, Cahill added. Participatig teachers were very iterested i global culture ad the importace of exposig their studets to diverse world evets ad cultures. We were fortuate to be part of the laguage day at Temple. The program was culturally ad liguistically eye opeig, stated oe high school teacher. It was a pleasure to uderstad why there is a importace i learig a foreig laguage. This ispired all the studets to cotiue workig towards their goals ad to cotiue to expatiate their kowledge i foreig laguage, the teacher cotiued. I a post-evet survey completed by participatig teachers, 71% idicated that their studets were more iclied to cotiue with foreig laguage study ad to apply to Temple Uiversity. Nearly 60% said that Temple s World Laguage Day ecouraged high school studets to cosider studyig abroad. World Laguage Day was sposored by Temple CIBER, Pe CIBER, Temple Uiversity s Vice Provost for Udergraduate Studies, Udergraduate Admissios, Iteratioal Programs, ad the College of Liberal Arts.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS The FOX Iteratioal Accoutig CONFERENCE If there is oe thig everyoe ca agree o about the Iteratioal Fiacial Reportig Stadards (IFRS), it s that there are great challeges ahead for U.S. corporatios, accoutig firms ad uiversities. 4 That was oe of the primary messages coveyed by early every speaker at the Fox School Accoutig Coferece, held Jue 6 ad 7 at Temple s Howard Gittis Studet Ceter ad sposored by the school s Departmet of Accoutig ad by Temple CIBER. More tha 100 professioals ad academics atteded the coferece, which combied pael discussios o the first day with research presetatios o the secod. The coferece was orgaized by Temple accoutig faculty members Rajiv Baker, Sudipta Basu, Elizabeth Gordo, Jayathi Krisha, Eric Press ad Sheri Risler. I welcomig attedees, Baker, the Merves Chair i Accoutig ad Iformatio Techology at the Fox School, commeted o the lik betwee accoutig practice ad academia. Oe of our goals at the Fox School is to build a strog bridge betwee the school ad the busiess world, somethig this coferece helps us achieve, said Baker. Over the ext two days, we will have a spirited discussio aroud a issue of cotemporary importace as well as share some of the cuttig-edge research takig place i our field, he added. Gatherigs such as this help stregthe the coectio betwee Temple Uiversity ad the accoutig professio. This is just the first of may cofereces we pla to hold as we cotiue to establish the Fox School as oe of the top ceters of accoutig research i the coutry. Fox School Dea M. Moshe Porat echoed these setimets. Oe of the purposes of this coferece is to promote syergy betwee academia ad the greater accoutig commuity, he said. With the SEC curretly cosiderig the implemetatio of ew U.S. accoutig stadards i aligmet with iteratioal stadards, our coferece today is certaily topical. The first day of the coferece cetered Elizabeth Gordo, associate professor of accoutig, speaks to participats at the Fox School s Jue 08 accoutig coferece. o IFRS, its beefits ad challeges, ad whether the Uited States was ready to accept its implemetatio. The IFRS are accoutig stadards that may feel will brig much-eeded cosistecy to reported fiacial data ad allow for a better flow of ivestmet capital across atioal borders. More tha 100 coutries have already adopted IFRS, with the U.S. beig a otable exceptio. The two pael discussios were The Beefits ad Challeges of IFRS Worldwide ad Is the U.S. Ready for IFRS? Each pael was made up of speakers from the accoutig field as well as promiet researchers from prestigious uiversities icludig Mary Barth of Staford Uiversity ad the Iteratioal Accoutig Stadards Board; Kathlee Bauma of PricewaterhouseCoopers; Scott Hartma of Erst & Youg; Robert Lipe of the Fiacial Accoutig Stadards Board; Liza McAdrew-Moberg of the U.S. Securities ad Exchage Commissio; Paul Muter of KPMG; Sherif Sakr of Deloitte & Touche; Shyam Suder of Yale Uiversity; ad Ross Watts of the Massachusetts Istitute of Techology. Most paelists agreed that IFRS offers may challeges, but it also offers may beefits, icludig the provisio of better iformatio to ivestors ad a stadardizatio of practices throughout the world. May of our iteratioal cliets previously used differet stadards, said Bauma, of PricewaterhouseCoopers. It was like Christmas for me whe they all wet to IFRS. Paelists discussed the cocer i the Uited States that IFRS is too priciple based i that it establishes broad rules as well as dictates specific treatmets. This is i cotrast to the U.S. Geerally Acceptable Accoutig Priciples (U.S. GAAP), which as oe paelist said, come i a stack as high as I am tall. Watts, of MIT, was the otable skeptic o the first pael, otig that it s ot clear that oe size fits all whe it comes to accoutig stadards. There are variatios across coutries for good ecoomic reasos, icludig differeces i the orgaizatio of firms ad the differeces i legal arragemets ad govermets, he said. I thik the beefits of IFRS are likely to be sigificatly less tha advertised. Cotiued o page 5
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA Accoutig Coferece Cotiued from page 4 Participats o both paels agreed that, if ad whe the Uited States sigs o to IFRS (ad most expect it will evetually), educatio will play a large role i its success or failure. Corporatios will have to be educated, accoutats will have to be educated, ad colleges will have to chage some of their curriculum i the future, said Erst & Youg s Hartma. But the fudametal questio remais, is the Uited States ready for IFRS? The geeral cosesus of the paelists: yes ad o. We re ot ready but we better start gettig ready, the FASB s Lipe said. We have oe chace to trasitio from U.S. GAAP to IFRS, ad we eed to prepare a blueprit for that trasitio. The accoutig coferece cotiued o the secod day with six presetatios by the followig researchers: Mary Barth, Staford, Accoutig Quality: Iteratioal Accoutig Stadards ad U.S. GAPP Elizabeth Gordo, Temple, Could IFRS Replace U.S. GAPP? A Compariso of Earigs Attributes ad Iformativeess i the U.S. Market Shyam Suder, Yale, Moopoly or Competitio: Stadard Settig i the Private ad Public Sector Rajiv Baker, Temple, DuPot Aalysis, Sustaiability of Competitive Advatage ad Valuatio Ross Watts, MIT, Evidece o the Effects of Uverifiable Fair-Value Accoutig Jayathi Krisha, Temple, Profitability, Growth, Coservatism ad the Reliability of Accoutig Numbers The Secod Aual Coferece, i collaboratio with Temple CIBER s Iteratioal Accoutig FDIB (Faculty Developmet i Iteratioal Busiess) will be held Jue 3 5, 2009. Post-Coflict Africa Summit: Ope for Resposible Busiess O Thursday, February 21, Temple Uiversity welcomed a group of local ad atioal busiess people, govermet represetatives, studets, ad faculty i a itesive discussio ad aalysis of busiess opportuities i post-coflict Africa. The coferece was orgaized by three studet professioal orgaizatios Iteratioal Busiess Associatio, Studets for Resposible Busiess, ad the Fracophoe Studets Professioal Orgaizatio i a collaborative recogitio of the importace of begiig a dialog about doig busiess i Africa resposibly. Amog the otable guests presetig at the coferece were the Hoorable Staley Straughter, Chairma of the Mayor s Commissio o Africa ad Caribbea Immigrat Affairs ad Hoorary Cosul of Guiea, Aliso Germak of the Overseas Private Ivestmet Corporatio (OPIC), ad Rupa Modi, Maager of East Coast Developmet, Kiva. I her welcomig remarks, Nicole DeSilvis, former Seior Iteratioal Trade Cosultat i Temple s Small Busiess Developmet Ceter ad curret Commercial Officer for the U.S. & Foreig Commercial Service, explaied that the umerous coutries of Africa provide ot oly iterestig ad potetially lucrative ivestmets for small- to medium- sized U.S. busiesses, but that iteratioal ivestmet ito these coutries sigificatly helps i the restoratio of peace ad stability i areas with such turbulet histories. Additioally, ecoomic growth withi these poor atios assists i alleviatio of the iteratioal problem of poverty. A select group of three Temple studets from differet Africa coutries (Gabo, Cameroo ad Rwada) preseted persoal views of their home coutries i a sessio titled, Africa from my les. The studets ethusiasm ad faith i the social ad ecoomic potetial of the Africa cotiet was apparet. They spoke adamatly about the potetial of the atural ad huma resource edowmets of the idividual coutries ad urged coferece attedees to become ivolved i helpig the diverse Africa coutries i fulfillig their potetial. The forum cocluded with a iformatio fair o ivestig i post-coflict Africa atteded by represetatives from diverse local ad iteratioal orgaizatios, icludig: the City of Philadelphia Departmet of Commerce, the U.S. Export Assistace Ceter ad The Africa ad Caribbea Busiess Coucil. The coferece was sposored by Temple Uiversity s Kaleidoscope Fud, the Small Busiess Developmet Ceter, ad Temple Uiversity CIBER. Staley Straughter (left), Chairma of the Mayor s Commissio o Africa ad Caribbea Immigrat Affairs ad Hoorary Cousul of Guiea with Temple studet Hubert Ruzibiza. 5
High Acclaim for Fox Researchers TEMPLE RANKED 4TH IN THE WORLD IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY BY THE ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 6 I a recet study coducted by The Asia Pacific Joural of Maagemet, Temple Uiversity was raked 3rd i the U.S. ad 4th i the world for iteratioal busiess research productivity. Fox faculty members Masaaki Kotabe, Ram Mudambi, Arvid Parkhe, ad David Reeb were idetified as amog the most prolific IB authors i the world. Fox School doctoral program alumi Yadog Luo ad Rakesh B. Sambharya who ow occupy professioal positios are also listed as prolific authors. Etitled, Prolific authors ad istitutios i leadig iteratioal busiess jourals the The Asia Pacific Joural of Maagemet study was drive by two research questios: 1. Who are the most prolific authors i the leadig iteratioal busiess jourals? 2. Which educatioal istitutios appear poised to lead iteratioal busiess scholarship? To determie author productivity, the followig six iteratioal busiess jourals were examied betwee 1996 ad 2006: Joural of Iteratioal Busiess Studies Maagemet Iteratioal Review Joural of World Busiess Iteratioal Marketig Review Joural of Iteratioal Marketig Iteratioal Busiess Review As The Asia Pacific Joural of Maagemet study states,...give the umber of prolific authors at these istitutios, it ca be argued that these istitutios may hold cosiderable ifluece o the directio of iteratioal busiess research. If such distictive leadership has resulted from a Masaaki Kotabe, Professor, Geeral ad Strategic Maagemet. Arvid Parkhe, Professor, Geeral ad Strategic Maagemet. deliberate or programmatic effort, these istitutios should receive special credit for Ram Mudambi, Professor ad Chair, Geeral ad Strategic Maagemet. David Reeb, Professor, Fiace. facilitatig advacemet of iteratioal busiess kowledge.
WORKING FOR PEACE IN PHILADELPHIA Lost Boy of Suda Graduates from the Fox School I Jauary 2008, Ayue G. Ajok graduated from the Fox School of Busiess with a major i iteratioal busiess admiistratio ad legal studies. His jourey to graduatio was a difficult oe. It all bega i 1983, the same year that the Secod Sudaese Civil War bega ad Ajok was bor i Souther Suda. The war evetually killed two millio people ad displaced four millio others. The war had its ow devastatig effects o Ajok. Five years after it started, whe most America childre Ajok s age begi schoolig, the itese violece ad worseig ecoomy forced Ajok ad thousads of others to flee their home coutry for Payodo, Ethiopia. Durig the ext 11 years, Ajok traveled by foot betwee Ethiopia, Suda ad Keya, costatly duckig attacks ad raids. O December 19, 2000, he fially left the Civil War-tor regio ad arrived i the U.S. with 3,000 other Sudaese boys ad girls. At age 16 ad with miimal Eglish skills, he bega high school i Motgomery Couty. At that momet, my life had a ew begiig, Ajok said. After graduatig i 2003 ad attedig Pe State Mot Alto for oe year, Ajok erolled at the Fox School of Busiess. I wated to receive the quality of educatio that oly Fox ca offer. Ad I got it with teachers like Nicole DeSilvis, (former adjuct istructor of Iteratioal Busiess ad curret Commercial Officer for the U.S. & Foreig Commercial Service), who gave me the opportuity to use my skills to do market research for a actual compay, he said. I 2006, Ajok was selected to take part i the Cogressioal Foster Youth Itership program by the Cogressioal Coalitio o Adoptio Istitute (CCAI). As a atural progressio of his ow experieces, he worked with legislators o topics icludig coutries i war, Suda ad adoptio. Ayue G. Ajok, Fox BBA 08 He led discussios about these issues at the Cogressioal meetigs, icludig oes atteded by the CCAI. Ajok has wo a umber of hoorable awards icludig recogitio by seator Hillary Clito, a certificate of the U.S. Cogress ad a U.S. flag flow over the atio s capitol o September 11, 2002 by Cogressme Curt Weldo. Oe day Ajok hopes to evetually work i his Suda to help develop jobs ad stimulate the ecoomy. 7 FOX IB STUDENT WORKS FOR PEACE IN PHILADELPHIA Jamira Burley, a 19-year-old freshma i the Fox School of Busiess, kows firsthad how violece affects the youth of Philadelphia. From school hallways to eighborhood corers, Burley witessed violece while growig up ad said that fights ad other disruptios were part of the orm at Overbrook High School i West Philadelphia. Growig up i Philadelphia, you re liable to witess violece ofte, she said. Youth become immue to it; it s almost a everyday occurrece. Durig her sophomore year i high school, Burley suffered a loss that would chage her life ad ecourage her to work to stop violece amog youth i Philadelphia. My brother was shot ad died from his gushot wouds, Burley, a iteratioal busiess ad Chiese double major, explaied. That really chaged thigs for me; it made me look at violece i the city a lot differetly. After he died I kew that I had to do somethig. From that poit o Burley, who is oe of 17 sibligs ad the first i her family to atted college, was determied to help put a ed to youth violece. She became a studet metor ad co-fouded the Pather Peace Core, a orgaizatio desiged to trai studets i coflict resolutio. She recetly received a $50,000 grat from the state to develop the Peace Core model at 10 schools that are raked amog the most dagerous i Philadelphia. She said her program empowers studets by givig them a opportuity to solve their problems together. I my experiece, studets i the same age group are more ope to helpig each other, Burley said. It really allows studets to ope up a bit more whe their peers, ot adults, are helpig to resolve a coflict. I additio to workig to further develop the Peace Core, Burley was recetly appoited to the Philadelphia Youth Commissio. The commissio will give youth of Philadelphia a opportuity to have some real voice i solvig the city s issues with violece, said Burley, who has bee appoited to the youth violece subcommittee. The Youth Commissio cosists of a pael of 21 youg Philadelphias betwee the ages of 12 ad 23. Sevetee members were appoited by the City Coucil; the four remaiig members, icludig Burley, were appoited by Mayor Michael Nutter. Members of the Commissio were selected to represet the diversity of the city ad the voices of youg Philadelphias, Nutter said. The Youth Commissio is a way for our city s youg leaders to become actively ivolved i city govermet, ad for city officials to beefit from the ideas ad perspectives of youg Philadelphias, Nutter said. I look forward to workig with the Youth Commissioers ad will create other ways i which to provide opportuities for studets to become ivolved. The commissio, which meets mothly, will be oversee by members of Nutter s admiistratio ad the City Coucil. A lot of people eed a reality check, Burley said. I wat to educate youth about violece before it s too late. I do t ever wat ayoe to experiece the loss that I did.
Mergig busiess ad laguages Global Busiess Project Liks MBA s Aroud the World 8 Whe it comes to the global ecoomy, there s a huge differece betwee readig about it ad actually experiecig it. Thaks to Temple CIBER s leadership role i a ew cosortium called the Global Busiess Project (GBP), MBA studets from the Fox School of Busiess have the opportuity to do the latter with their couterparts aroud the world The GBP is a itercollegiate MBA course developed ad facilitated by 10 Ceters for Iteratioal Busiess Educatio ad Research (CIBERs), icludig Columbia, Duke, George Washigto, Kasas, Marylad, Pittsburgh, Sa Diego State, Purdue, Temple, ad UNC-Chapel Hill. The project provides MBA studets from premier busiess schools with the opportuity to work o real issues facig multiatioal or local compaies i emergig markets. The GBP is differet from other iteratioal MBA cosultig projects because it combies studet teams from a cosortium of CIBER schools ad a parter uiversity i the destiatio coutry, requirig critical laguages, virtual teamig ad cross-cultural awareess, says Kimberly Cahill, Director of the Istitute of Global Maagemet Studies ad Temple CIBER. The fial project will be preseted to the compay i the critical laguage of the host coutry, which is uique. Adam Dotso is oe of two Temple MBA studets that participated i the GBP. I May, he traveled to Brazil to work with the largest privately held compay i North America, Koch Idustries. His four-perso team which he met i Washigto, DC, durig the Kick-Off weeked i March collaborated virtually ad is made up of MBA studets from Duke, North Carolia ad George Washigto. Oe member is from Brazil, aother is from Argetia, ad a third has dual passports from the U.S. ad Brazil. The team researched the value chai of ethaol productio i Brazil. These are the types of cosultig projects oly seior cosultats are allowed to pursue at brad-ame firms, ad I am beig Left to right: Kim Cahill ad Mike Kotabe, Temple CIBER; Eiichi Imaaka, SAP Japa; Peter Tosco, Kasas; Jada Heo, UNC; photo by Cristia Camarea, GW. give the reis to do professioal research ad presetatios as a MBA studet, says Dotso. For me, the Global Busiess Project offers a oe-of-a-kid opportuity to bled my backgroud i iteratioal ad itercultural relatios with my course work. Temple s other GBP participat is Lei Zhag, MS Fiace, whose team worked with a North Carolia lumber compay to ope a market i Chia. Her resposibilities icluded servig as the laguage expert, aalyzig the Chiese lumber market, cotactig potetial cosumers ad plaig the etire trip to Chia. Both Dotso ad Zhag worked o their projects i cosultatio with their participatig compaies usig Cetra a virtual coferecig program util mid-may, at which poit they traveled overseas to the compaies ad completed their projects. Temple professor Masaaki Mike Kotabe ad Kasei Gauki Uiversity professor Yoshiobu Sato serve as faculty advisors for the two GBP corporate projects i Japa, ivolvig SAP Japa (a subsidiary of Europe s largest IT/busiess applicatios software compay) ad Adachi Compay, Ltd. (a high-ed leather bag maufacturer). Etry ito the GBP is competitive, ad those accepted are matched with appropriate projects. The resultig four-perso teams are collectively competet i the critical laguage of the target coutry, have experiece there with the idustry, ad the fuctioal areas i which the projects are based. I ca t overstate the beefits I reaped from this program, says Dotso. I was exposed to revolutioary techiques i distace teamwork, to the pressures of cliet egagemet, ad to the demads of rapid laguage acquisitio. The GBP is without questio the most rewardig experiece I have had at Temple. I the first year of the GBP, 53 MBA studets participated i ie differet projects i Japa, Chia ad Brazil. Collectively, the studets speak 22 laguages ad represet 14 differet atios. I 2009, Marylad will coordiate projects i Polad ad Duke will offer cosultig projects i Russia i 2010.
9th Aual Iteratioal Busiess Research Forum Fox MBA Raked By The Ecoomist IB research forum focuses o iteratioal sourcig Cotiued from page 3 atio salaries ad the stregth ad breadth of a school s alumi etwork. Six years ago the Fox School created a Graduate Career Maagemet Ceter dedicated to servig the eeds of MBA studets. The ceter provides career coachig sessios, semiars ad workshops, ad etworkig evets for studets ad works closely with alumi ad employers to coect them with Fox MBA ad MS studets. As a result, Fox MBA graduates have eared full-time ad summer positios at top global compaies such as Advata, ARAMARK, AMGEN, Bloomberg, Erst & Youg, The GAP, Google ad McKisey & Co. I additio to The Ecoomist, the Fox MBA has also bee raked globally by the Fiacial Times of Lodo ad raked amog the top programs i the atio by U.S. News & World Report, Etrepreeur magazie ad The Priceto Review. For more iformatio about The Fox School s rakigs, please visit www.temple. edu/fox. Iteratioal sourcig was the theme for the 9th Aual Iteratioal Busiess Research Forum preseted by Temple CIBER ad co-sposored by The Fox School s Istitute of Global Maagemet Studies (IGMS) i collaboratio with Duke CIBER i April 2008. This coferece was a sequel to the First Aual Off-Shorig Research Network (ORN) Coferece ad Workshop held at Duke Uiversity i April 2007. Researchers from Filad, Demark, Spai, Australia, Germay, Swede, Switzerlad, the Uited Kigdom, ad the Uited States examied the rise of busiess process outsourcig that exteds beyod IT services to a rage of other services relatig to accoutig, huma resources maagemet, fiace, sales ad after-sales such as call ceters. Thak you very much for orgaizig ad providig us a good chace to get together, discuss the ispirig research questios, ad lear from each other. This coferece was very valuable, especially for PhD studets as well as juior faculty. Coferece participat The presetatios ad discussios hosted at the forum addressed may of the cotemporary cocers ad iterests regardig global sourcig. For example, researchers ad practitioers are ofte cocered that foreig busiess process suppliers may be movig up the kowledge chai more rapidly tha may have first bee expected. Such kowledge trasfer could i the log ru udermie sourcig firms ability to differetiate themselves from their foreig suppliers. Masaaki Mike Kotabe, Temple CIBER executive director Arvid Phatak welcomes everyoe to the IB Research Forum. Washbur chair, professor of Iteratioal Busiess ad Marketig ad editor of the Joural of Iteratioal Maagemet, (JIM) served as forum co-chair alog with Ram Mudambi, professor ad chair of Geeral ad Strategic Maagemet, the Fox School of Busiess. The best paper from the forum was awarded to Jussi Hätöe ad Taia Paju (Turku School of Ecoomics) for their paper titled 30+ Years of Research ad Practice of Outsourcig: Explorig the Past ad Aticipatig the Future. These articles will be published i a Special Issue of JIM i 2009 (Volume 15, Number 2). JIM is fast gaiig recogitio ad visibility i a competitive IB market ad differetiates itself with oe of the fastest quality review processes i the idustry a average 38 day tur aroud o reviews ad 24 hours o desk rejects. Electroic dowloads, a reasoable idicator of readership, have icreased eightfold i the last six years from 6,897 i 2001 to 66,107 dowloads i 2007. The followig CIBERs co-sposored this evet Florida Iteratioal Uiversity, Idiaa Uiversity, Michiga State Uiversity, Temple Uiversity, Uiversity of Coecticut, Uiversity of Hawaii, Uiversity of Kasas, Uiversity of Marylad, Uiversity of Memphis, ad Uiversity of North Carolia- Chapel Hill. 9
U.S. - Brazil Cosortia Program 10 Temple CIBER participates i U.S. Brazil Higher Educatio Cosortia Program This program is like a dream come true for me. It has allowed me to study i the Uited States, lear more about America culture, meet ew people, ad improve my Eglish, said Rafael Gualao de Godoy, a udergraduate studet from Federal Uiversity of Paraa, Brazil. I pla o learig as much as possible so whe I go back to Brazil, I ca have some differet perspectives about the busiess world, as well as busiess culture, he cotiued. Godoy is oe of 14 studets participatig i the U.S.-Brazil Higher Educatio Cosortia Program. The four-year program is sposored by the U.S. Departmet of Educatio ad the Brazilia Miistry of Educatio. The program stems from a iter-govermetal agreemet betwee the two coutries ad each govermet fiaces the participatio of the two uiversities from its coutry. Four uiversities, two from Brazil ad two from the U.S., participate as gratees i each cosortium. The two Brazilia uiversities i the cosortium are the Federal Uiversity of Sata Cataria, Brazil, ad the Federal Uiversity of Paraa, Brazil. Temple Uiversity ad George Washigto Uiversity are the U.S. parters. Rafael Gualao de Godoy, a udergraduate exchage studet from Federal Uiversity of Paraa, Brazil. Brazil has the world s ith largest ecoomy, the fifth most populous atio, ad the biggest coutry i South America. It is kow as a regioal leader due to its ifluetial positio, strog ecoomy, ad vast atural resources. Brazil is a microcosm of the world with its ethic diversity ad multiculturalism, said Kim Cahill, director of Temple CIBER ad the Istitute of Global Maagemet Studies. Whether your iterest is culture, sciece, or ecoomics, Brazil is a varied ad excitig place to study. Its stuig ladscapes ad fasciatig history provide a woderful backdrop to studyig i a ifluetial South America atio, Cahill cotiued. The program seeks to ecourage the movemet of studets betwee U.S. ad Brazilia uiversities, the coordiatio of course offerigs, the stimulatio of joit research, ad the exchage of professors for short teachig assigmets. The program is ope to both udergraduate ad graduate studets who would like a immersio i Brazilia culture ad a exposure to Lati America. The program provides sigificat fiacial support to the studets. It pays for the roud-trip airfare, provide fuds to study Portuguese before the regular semester begis, ad subsidizes daily livig expeses. Approximately six studets are expected to travel from the US to Brazil each year, ad vice versa. Thus, some thirty-six studets will beefit substatially from the cosortium activities. Samuel de Melo, a udergraduate studet from the Federal Uiversity of Sata Cataria said, The fiacial support was fudametal to my study at Temple. Without the fiacial support it would have bee almost impossible for me to leave my coutry ad support myself i the U.S. Academically, the program has give me a iside perspective of the courses ad the structure of a America uiversity. It has also provided me with a opportuity to come back to the U.S. i the future, de Melo cotiued. For more iformatio about the program, cotact Kim Cahill, director of Temple CIBER ad the Istitute of Global Maagemet Studies, kcahill@temple.edu.
Islam ad the Middle East Isight Dubai: Two Fox studets lear about Islam ad the Middle East I March 2008, two Fox School studets traveled to Dubai oe of the most ecoomically importat ad accessible cities of the Middle East, to participate i a five-day iteratioal leadership coferece with youg wome from all over the world. The evet, Isight Dubai, which took place March 23-27, 2008 was preseted by Dubai Wome s College. The motivatio for creatig such a program was to ehace mutual uderstadig betwee our studets ad studets i the Middle East, said Arvid Phatak, Carell Professor of Maagemet ad Iteratioal Busiess at The Fox School ad executive director of Temple s Istitute of Global Maagemet Studies (IGMS), ad the Ceter for Iteratioal Busiess Educatio ad Research (CIBER). The trip was fuded through CIBER s $1.3 millio grat from the U.S. Departmet of Educatio. Oe of the CIBER s most importat iitiatives is promotig global perspectives to all of its stakeholders i particular, a focus o icreasig ecoomic ad cultural uderstadig betwee citizes of the U.S. ad those of the Middle East, North Africa ad Idia. At the coferece, 50 studets from the Dubai Wome s College were partered with 50 studets from coutries aroud the world icludig Rwada, Australia, Turkey, Belgium, Argetia, Korea, Bagladesh, Lithuaia, Zimbabwe ad Frace. The coferece is characterized by its distictive Arabic ad Islamic theme. Activities iclude participatio as a foreig diplomat i a simulated Uited Natios discussio, role playig withi a mock Shari ah (Islamic law) court case, debatig leadership issues ad a examiatio of the Majlis ad the local electios. Pael discussios regardig local issues such as promotig peace, female leadership i the Middle East, as well as site visits added to the participats uderstadig of the local eviromet. Accordig to Fox School Iteratioal Busiess major Rachel Ezzell, learig about Shari ah was very iterestig. We participated i a mock Shari ah court case focusig o iheritace law. I leared that a o-muslim caot receive a iheritace from a Muslim. It was iterestig to observe the cultural differeces whe discussig wome s roles i govermet, said Teea Boupraseuth, a Fox School Iteratioal Busiess major. For example, may of the participats from the Middle East ad South Asia believed that wome are more emotioally i tue ad urturig. Therefore, they would be able to address issues cocerig health care, educatio, ad civil rights rather tha me, Teea cotiued. Ezzell ad Boupraseuth also ejoyed free time to experiece the local culture by visitig some of the more otable attractios i Dubai, icludig visitig Heritage Village to lear more about the history ad customs of the populatios i the regio; seeig a Islamic art exhibit i the Palace of the Emirates; goig to the Sheik Zayed Grad Mosque the first mosque i the Middle East to permit etry to o-muslims; ad travelig through the desert. The Sheik Zayed Grad Mosque served as the dramatic backdrop to the Isight Dubai evet. I ejoyed goig to the desert where I rode a camel ad had my hads paited with hea ik. I also helped the locals make fresh doughuts which were served with date hoey, Ezzel said. Summig up the etire week, Teea said, I am so grateful that I was able to participate i a learig experiece that has give me a greater uderstadig of Islam ad the Middle East, as well as eabled me to make frieds with so may amazig, itelliget youg wome from aroud the globe. Temple CIBER cotiued its collaboratio with Dubai Wome s College i the Third Aual Cross-atioal Virtual Collaboratio Project. Three studet teams from Fox ad DWC worked virtually throughout the sprig 2008 semester to develop a foreig market etry strategy for Tastykake to expad ito Dubai ad the Middle East. Studets from DWC traveled to Philadelphia to fialize their fidigs with their Fox teammates. Mr. George Latella, Director of Customer Relatios & E-Commerce, Tasty Bakig Compay, atteded the fial presetatios ad provided may samples of their products. 11
CELEBRATING 90 YEARS aroud the globe FOX SCHOOL CELEBRATEs 90TH ANNIVERSARY 12 Durig the Fox School s 90th aiversary celebratio this past sprig, studets, faculty ad staff demostrated how committed they were to globalizatio by celebratig aroud the globe. At Temple s Mai Campus, several hudred celebrats ibbled o aiversary cupcakes, listeed attetively to Dea M. Moshe Porat s remarks about the school s progress, ad took a virtual tour of the ew Alter Hall. About 4,300 miles away i Rome, studets, faculty ad admiistrators watched a digitally captured message from the dea who toasted the aiversary. It s really cool that so may campuses Mai, TUCC, Ambler, Fort Washigto ad Temple s Rome ad Japa campuses all celebrated the school s 90th birthday, said David Kaiser, director of udergraduate erollmet maagemet. The fact that we had a global party really reflects how iteratioal the school has become. Full-time ad professioal MBA studets celebrated at Temple Uiversity Ceter City ad Fort Washigto, executive MBA studets commemorated the school s 90th birthday at the Desmod Coferece i Malver, where classes are taught, ad studets i Japa also celebrated at their campus. At the Ambler Campus, udergraduates participated i a meet-ad-greet sessio with Fox deas. Dea M. Moshe Porat serves cake to Fox studets at the 90th celebratio held i April 2008. This is a excitig time to celebrate our 90th birthday, Dea Porat said. I additio to Alter Hall earig completio, we have hired 24 ew faculty members this year ad pla to hire more over the followig three years. This is the most trasformative evet i the history of the school. Dea Porat also oted that the risig quality of the Fox School s faculty, studets, techology, ad campuses is boostig the quality of a studet s degree or as he called it, a studet s stock. You are the full-time stockholders i a Fox School educatio, because you are holdig the degree, Dea Porat said. Ad the value of that stock is icreasig, due to the school s high rakigs, our cuttig-edge Alter Hall, our award-wiig faculty, our advisig staff ad our top-quality studets. The highlight at several of the celebratios was the virtual tour through the ew Alter Hall. The ew Fox School complex, a $80 millio, state-of-the-art buildig, is a true milestoe for our 90th birthday, Joh DeAgelo, associate dea for iformatio techology, said as he guided studets o the virtual tour. Alter Hall will have plety of breakout rooms, e-mail statios, fast battery-chargig areas for laptops, ad may other techology-savvy features. The tour is available o the Alter Hall web site at www. temple.edu/fox. After the presetatios, participats sepak-20 educatio GOES global 2008 Coferece sposored by Temple CIBER & DeSales Uiversity Over 50 regioal teachers, professioals, ad busiess-owers atteded the Thought Leadership for Educatio ad Busiess: Co-costructig New Orgaizatio Models for Iovatio ad Global Competitiveess Coferece at DeSales Uiversity i Ceter Valley, PA o April 10, 2008. The evet, which focused o reegieerig K-20 educatio ito a globally relevat system, was co-sposored by Temple CIBER. DeSales ad Temple hosted the coferece to both share ad gather iformatio about the eed to itegrate a global perspective ito K-20 educatio. From the idividual speakers icludig, State Seator Rob Woderlig of the 24th Seatorial District to the idividual break-out sessios, the coferece stressed the eed for radical chage i the curret educatioal paradigm to meet the eeds of our radically chagig ecoomy. Specifically, speakers stressed the eed for K-20 educatio to prepare studets to thrive i globally-decetralized ad iovatio cetered positios ad professios. The collaborative effort arose i recogitio of the dramatic chages i techology, markets ad geopolitics that are combiig to fudametally alter what it takes for atios, commuities, orgaizatios ad people to thrive ad prosper i the 21st Cetury. The kowledge, capital, talet ad resources that were oce scarce ad provided huge advatages to the developed coutries which cotrolled them are ow accessible aywhere i the world. Compaies ad commuities caot hope to stay ahead i this eviromet uless they costatly advace the game by makig iovatio ad global egagemet a way of life. Cotiued o page 13
IMBA ESSENTIALS IMBA Essetials orietatio builds uity How do you brig together two studet groups studyig o opposite cotiet, Asia ad Europe, to develop oe cohesive 2008 Iteratioal MBA class? Aswer: IMBA Essetials. O Jauary 10, 2008, the Fox MBA Programs Office lauched a seve-day orietatio program called IMBA Essetials, i a effort to itroduce the Iteratioal MBA studets to Philadelphia, to the Fox School of Busiess ad most importatly to each other. Every facet of the IMBA Essetials orietatio was strategically plaed to ecourage itegratio amog the diverse group with respect to culture, life experiece, educatioal ad professioal goals. After spedig their first semester abroad i two separate cohorts, oe i Idia (Weligkar Istitute) ad oe i Paris (ENPC Iteratioal School of Maagemet), IMBA studets came together as a group i the sprig semester to cotiue their studies at the Fox School i Philadelphia. Each of the two cohorts arrive i Philadelphia with their ow special bod that was created durig the fall semester. Our job is to develop a orietatio program, which ecourages the creatio of a ew bod amog the class as a whole, said Jaime Molyeux, Assistat Director of Fulltime MBA Programs. IMBA Essetials combies classroom work with co-curricular activities, which set the stage for relatioship buildig ad teamwork amog the studets. IMBA Essetials is a critical part of the MBA experiece for studets it creates a sese of uity ad teamwork amog the class eve before the academic semester begis, said Jaso Bozzoe, Director of Full-Time MBA Programs. The week bega with a itroductio to U.S. culture ad busiess practices, icludig a Global Leadership Forum hosted by Julie Fesemaier of the Cochra Research Ceter. Studets the took a guided trolley tour of Philadelphia, icludig a special stop at Pat s Kig of Steaks for complimetary cheesesteaks. Huma Resource Maagemet professor James Portwood taught teambuildig ad leadership classes, complemeted by the iteractive T.E.A.M. Members Playbook workshop offered by Eric Bruer of the Temple Huma Resources Departmet. The Fox Graduate Career Maagemet Ceter played a vital role i IMBA Essetials by offerig a series of professioal developmet presetatios cocetratig o iterview skills, busiess etiquette ad etworkig techiques. Studets were the give the opportuity to test these skills at multiple etworkig evets, icludig the Dea s Receptio, a etiquette lucheo at the Diamod Club, the Alumi Discussio Pael, ad luch with the Studet Associatio. The first aual IMBA Essetials program eded o Jauary 18th with a fial evet at Lucky Strike bowlig alley where each studet was cogratulated for successfully completig IMBA Essetials ad were preseted with a official Fox Iteratioal MBA fleece. 13 K-20 Educatio GOES Global Cotiued from page 12 rated ito idividual sessios desiged to icrease awareess of particular facets ad eeds of a revised educatioal system. For example, participats were able to choose sessios o teachig foreig laguages olie, faculty vs. studet drive models of educatio, how youg people use techology to create commuity, solve problems, ad lear, soft-skills ad the future of maagemet ad educatio ad how the arts cotribute to the iovative capacities of idividuals ad orgaizatios. Coferece participats also voted to form a coalitio to formally defie ad pursue the implemetatio of globally relevat educatioal systems withi PA. Amog the goals of the coalitio will be to ìembody ad promote the kowledge, skill, attitudes ad experieces essetial to persoal ad orgaizatioal success i a world of global collaboratio ad competitio.î By likig differet educatio-related groups ad etities, stakeholders, ad dedicated idividuals, the coalitio will serve as a helpful driver ad facilitator for advocacy ad actio. The roles of the coalitio are evisioed as: Iformig educators ad stakeholders about the ew global eviromet ad the resultig chages i busiess ad commuity through public educatio ad cosultig Coordiatig ad sposorig cofereces ad other programs amog member orgaizatios to esure rich ad abudat coversatios ad collaboratio Advocatig with policy makers at the local, state, ad federal levels Facilitatig the sharig of best practices amog educators, ad lik educators ad stakeholders together, all for mutual beefit ad to miimize relearig lessos ad reivetig techiques ad resources Leadig collaborative trasformatio activities, projects, ad models desiged to tackle the more challegig ad ambiguous chages that are difficult for idividual educatioal etities ad orgaizatios to address o their ow Helpig to create resources (papers, videos, etc.) that ca be used by educators ad their costituets Seekig fudig to support these activities ad others directly related to the missio Coferece hosts, Drs. Gale Godbey ad Mohamed Lahib of DeSales Uiversity, successfully preseted the first resolutio defiig the Coalitio s visio ad missio, o which the ewly formed committee voted to approve. Oe of the first actios of the coalitio is the publicatio of a white paper discussig the challeges facig educatioal istitutios. The paper attempts to lay the groudwork for future actios by orgaizig the dialog from the coferece to idetify treds i educatio ad evisio how future graduates will be prepared ad how the educatio system will deliver those outcomes.