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Next week is spring break at USD, and students are not the only ones leaving campus. The Ahlers Center for International Business is sponsoring the Faculty Development India Program. Twenty faculty members from the School of Business will travel to Delhi, India to visit two business schools and about a dozen companies.

They have a full itinerary, with sessions at the University of Delhi and the Institute for Management Technology, Ghaziabad; they also have meetings and tours at companies such as …Read Full Article

USD business student consultants for WD-40 China

I keep hearing about all the great work our undergraduate business students did for international companies last month. Professor Carsten Zimmerman and student Alyssa Forester told me about the management consulting project that ten of our students did for WD-40 in Shanghai during January Intersession.

The student consulting team was tasked with making recommendations for WD-40 China to further monetize the industrial segment in different regions of mainland China. In meetings with the students, …Read Full Article

USD business students (from left): Ryan Frary (Finance), Ashley Thomas (International Business), Jeffrey Johnson (Finance), Carlos Pelli (President of AAETAV), and Sean Yoshikawa (International Business)

You might want to put Argentina on your list of upcoming vacation destinations. USD School of Business undergraduate students completed a consulting project in Buenos Aires during the January intersession. This photo shows the students meeting with Carlos Pelli, President of AAETAV (Argentine Association of Adventure and Eco-Tourism), discussing their project of designing strategies to …Read Full Article

Assoc. Dean Manzur Rahman and Prof. Dan Rivetti with alum, Jamal Al Sharif, and MBA students in Dubai

While some of our faculty are abroad during intersession, they have been connecting with local alumni. This photo is with Jamal al Sharif (BBA ’99), Managing Director, Dubai Media City, Dubai Studio City.

We have had alumni receptions and dinners in Dubai, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, London and Shanghai to coincide with our courses abroad for USD School of Business graduate and undergraduate …Read Full Article

Not many students are on the USD campus during intersession

Not that I’m lonely or anything, but it has been pretty quiet around here during intersession. I’m glad our traveling students and faculty send me postcards from their travels and tell me about the projects they’re working on.

First, from our MBA and IMBA students:

One postcard is from Dubai, where 19 students are working on projects for 4 different companies. For example, at Dubai International Academic City the project is to …Read Full Article