Cross Border Consulting (CBC) program available for MBA, MSA, MSIS students

Participate on an internationally-focused consulting team with students from CETYS (Mexico), San Diego State University, University of California San Diego and University of San Diego during the spring semester of 2021. This opportunity is available to full-time and part-time MBA, MSA and MSIS students in the final year of their program.

Accepting Applications 

Cross Border Consulting Flyer 

For additional information, please contact: 

Nancy Nicholson, [email protected] or 

Zena Yang, [email protected]

Course Description:

• Political and economic diplomacy and their influences on business operations
• Key historical events and their consequences for business 
• Diplomatic process and outcomes

When?

        Thursdays           4:00 - 6:30 pm 

Prerequisite:

• Consent of department Chair.
• Must be a Junior, Senior, or Graduate student

How to sign up:

• Upon class registration, log into your SDSU web portal
• Click on “My class schedule”

• Make sure to check that you are in the right term. (Spring 2021)
• Click on “Search” which can be found under “Class Schedule”
• Select “Management” under Course Subject & type in “22352” for the Schedule Number
• Click Search & Sign up

Completion of this course will enable students to:

• Explain and interpret the key concepts in both international business and diplomacy
• Identify the political and societal events that affect the operations of a firm
• Evaluate how different factors (economic, political and cultural) and contexts influence the diplomatic process and outcomes
• Discuss foreign policy objectives of different administrations through historic examples

Grant for International Business Research

San Diego State University's Center for International Business Education and Research (SDSU CIBER) continues to support international business education and research across the entire University community and is pleased to announce its Annual Faculty Grant Program. While SDSU CIBER located at in the Fowler College of Business, it seeks to promote international business education and research throughout the university. The general conditions for the grants are:

• All tenured, tenure-track, and full-time SDSU faculty are eligible to participate
• Awards may be used for stipends, travel, graduate assistants, data, and research support (excluding equipment)
• Proposals are encouraged for any amount up to $10,000
• Multi-year projects which have an extensive scope are also encouraged
• All proposals will be reviewed irrespective of the budget
• CIBER will accept application on a year-round basis
• Reviews will be completed within 4 weeks after the application is received
• Applications which do not meet the mandate of CIBER will be returned without review

SDSU CIBER will continue to support its Faculty Award Program by allocating funds for high-quality internationally oriented business, language, culture research. Any topic and pedagogy which address CIBER's objectives will be reviewed. A key component of the award is the promotion of research on international entrepreneurship.

CIBER will use a rigorous selection procedure and a stringent accountability model. Competition for the research awards will be announced to the entire campus community. All proposals will be reviewed, with input from experts on the subject matter within SDSU (where possible). Successful applicants will receive funding through a three-tired approach beginning with: 1) project initiation; 2) an accepted SDSU CIBER working paper; and finally, 3) publication in a journal or scholarly book with an international business theme. 

To support this high quality thematic research strategy, CIBER will sponsor a Faculty Development Initiative for Research. An internal audit indicates that there is significant interest in IB research among SDSU faculty member who are not currently doing so.  CIBER will facilitate the conversion of this interest into reality by sponsoring a forum for faculty award recipients to discuss research projects and demonstrate research design to other interested faculty as well as inviting editors from top IB journal to discuss the process of research and how to publish in their respective publications. Faculty award recipients are expected to participate in these activities which are designed to encourage top-quality thematic publishable research. 

Evaluation Criteria for Faculty Awards

The following criteria will be used to evaluate all proposals:

1. Relevance of the proposal to the objectives of the CIBER program;

2. Clarity of writing;

3. Quality of the method and analytic approach;

4. Potential for publication in a referred journal (or equivalent).

Guidelines for SDSU CIBER Award Submission

Please submit your proposal to Mark J. Ballam, Managing Director. Email: [email protected]

SDSU Mail Code: 8230, Phone: 619-594-3947

All CIBER award proposals must contain:

1. an abstract

2. a budget (CIBER reserves the right to re-negotiate the budget of a successful application);

3. a timeline; 

4. a current vita

Research- related funding proposals must also contain:

1. a brief literature review;

2. a description of the research methodology;

3. a proposed publication outlet

Study/Travel funding proposals must also contain:

1. the goal of the project;

2. a detailed description of the project

3. the anticipated benefits to teaching effectiveness (in international business);

4. a letter of support from the department chair confirming the benefits of the program for teaching effectiveness. 

Chair

Dan Novak

SVP, Head of Global Marketing & Communications, Retired 

Qualcomm

AnnaRose Baca

VP Sales & Marketing 

Kendal Floral Supply

Robert Bowen

Senior Director, Global Trade Compliance and Corporate Counsel

Cubic Corporation

Wendy Gillespie

President & CEO

Frontier Trading, Inc. and Starhawk Productions

Julian Parra

Senior Vice President and Business Banking Executive

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch

Barbara Rose

President & Senior Partner

New Generation Partnerships, Inc.

Roberto Rubio

Vice President, Controller

IEnova 

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"My most memorable take-aways were learning how to manage multiple (simultaneous) projects and collaborating with other interns to accomplish large projects with professionalism and efficiency." Kayleigh Heller

Ryhan Arnett

Amruta Balapure

 Gioia Carpinelli

Abraham Castro

Madison 

Drinkwine

Kayleigh Heller

Oussama Karkach

Jessica Lima

Michael Loi

Brady O'Brien

Buse Ozsuca

Carl Printer

Nakia Richardson

Jacob Sauer

Dema Youhann