Faculty Development in International Business
Faculty Development in International Business
FDIB, now in its 25th straight year, brings you techniques, expertise and resources to build or expand your offerings in international business.
Expert international business faculty from the top-rated Darla Moore School of Business will share contemporary knowledge and techniques to globalize your business curriculum. Choose the seminar that is right for you FDIB offers you a series of six concurrent seminars. You’ll choose one seminar and then spend a week with some of the top faculty in the international business field, developing both your professional knowledge about the particular topic and your pedagogical skills that will enhance your teaching of the subject.
Choose from:
- Survey of International Business
- International Management
- International Negotiations
- International Financial Management
- Global Operations and Supply Chain Management
- International Marketing
You may also participate in three optional, one-hour bonus sections:
- Emerging Markets – China
- Emerging Markets–Eastern Europe
- Emerging Markets–Latin America
Bonus Program: June 7-8
Global Sustainable Enterprise
The global sustainable enterprise program is designed to assist business faculty who are interested in developing a stand-alone course on sustainability or planning to introduce the topic of sustainability into existing courses.
The cases, based on research conducted by the Moore School and the Sam Walton School of Business at the University of Arkansas will present a series of teaching cases about Walmart’s experience in implementing a wide-ranging sustainability initiatives:
• Walmart’s Sustainability Initiative: Lee Scott’s Founding Vision
• Walmart’s Sustainability Initiative: Andy Ruben’s First Steps
• Walmart’s Sustainability Initiative: The World’s Shrinking Fish Supply
• Walmart’s Sustainability Initiative: Bottled Water Logistics and Forecasting
• Walmart’s Sustainability Initiative: Designing Sustainable Products
• Walmart’s Sustainability Initiative: The Worldwide Implementation of Light Emitting Diode (LED) Lighting
• Walmart’s Sustainability Initiative: The Worldwide Search for Environmentally Friendly Shopping Bags
Faculty
Andrew Spicer (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Associate Professor of International
Business, University of South Carolina
The one-day Global Sustainable Enterprise is free for all FDIB registrants. ($295 fee to register for Global Sustainable Enterprise only.)
FDIB Schedule
Jun 2 6 - 8 p.m. Welcome Reception/Distribution of Materials
Jun 3* 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Class
Jun 4* 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Class
Jun 5* 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Class
Jun 6 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Class
6:00 p.m. Graduation
Jun 7 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Class
1:00 p.m. - 4 p.m. Bonus Program: Global Sustainable Enterprise
Jun 8 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Bonus Program: Global Sustainable Enterprise
*Bonus sections from 4-5 p.m.
The program includes one of six seminars, plus three optional 1-hour Bonus Sections:
• Emerging Markets – China
• Emerging Markets – Eastern Europe
• Emerging Markets – Latin America
$500 CIBER Scholarship—Apply Now!
The Center for International Business and Education Research (CIBER) offers a limited number of $500 scholarships for each course. Scholarships will be granted based on an application process and review by the University of South Carolina CIBER administration.
For more information call 1.800.393.2362
Program Fee
The full program fee is $2,150 in U.S. dollars. A 15 percent discount is available to institutions sending three or more people.
Location
The seminars will be held at the Daniel-Mickel Center for Executive Education at the Darla Moore School of Business on the University of South Carolina Columbia campus.
Accommodations are not included.
Applicants must make hotel reservations before May 10 to receive hotel discounts.