broad I am excited to share the second issue of our eNewsletter.

Albeit virtually, this year we are celebrating the 30^th anniversary of our designation as National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education (i.e., CIBER). I’d like to thank everybody who has supported our programs and activities in different capacities. Michigan State University has a long tradition and commitment to international business and IBC has been serving as the guiding force for this commitment at the Broad College for the past thirty years. As the only U.S. Department of Education designated Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) in Michigan, and one of the fifteen centers in the entire US, IBC is a global leader and MSU’s epicenter for international business.

Ironically, we are celebrating our 30^th anniversary during an unprecedented global crisis that puts international business education at the crossroads in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clearly, globalization took a major hit in the past six months or so and it is in retreat. Businesses globally have experienced dramatic challenges and we still do not know how this pandemic will affect global business activity in the future. However, I believe that the Covid-19 pandemic represents an opportunity for globalization because recent events demonstrated that we need more integration coupled with stronger global institutions that will help us develop and coordinate more effective global responses to solve global problems (for more please see the “Globalization in the Post-Pandemic World" Summer Series Webinar at this YouTube Link below.

Ahmet H. Kirca, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of International Business and Marketing

Director of the International Business Center and MSU-CIBER

At the Broad College and IBC we are committed to leverage our leading edge competencies to provide superior education, research, and assistance to businesses, public policy makers, academics, and students on international trade and global competitiveness issues. Please let us know if you have any ideas or suggestions to help us achieve our goals. Thank you again for your continued support and we look forward to working with you!

IBC Student Profiles

Andrew Menke - globalEDGE Team Lead: I’m a senior supply chain management major in the Honors College. Post-graduation, I’m looking to join a rotational leadership development program to kickstart my professional career with a wide range of challenging experiences. Adjusting to life in a pandemic world has been challenging, but it’s starting to feel normal and there are valuable opportunities stemming from our new way of life.

Being the team leader for globalEDGE at the IBC for two years has taught me, most importantly, how to be an effective communicator to the students and faculty working around me and it has sharpened my data analyzation skills in Excel.

Michael Rotondo - Former MEGP Team Lead:

I am currently a senior accounting student at MSU. Following my Masters in Accounting Program, I am aiming to receive my CPA license and work full time at Deloitte in their Detroit Tax Practice. Life during the pandemic has been a great transition, but I have handled it by maintaining a solid schedule and finding small quiet places at my family’s chaotic house. Also, watching what feels like nearly the whole Netflix library has helped. Being the team lead for MEGP at the IBC was a challenging task. It taught me valuable skills of responsibility, leadership, and communication.

The biggest learning curve was the amount of effective communication needed with superiors and team members. At the IBC, I have gained skills of teamwork and effective writing. I have also learned a tremendous amount about international business.

I am currently a senior accounting student at MSU. Following my Masters in Accounting Program, I am aiming to receive my CPA license and work full time at Deloitte in their Detroit Tax Practice. Life during the pandemic has been a great transition, but I have handled it by maintaining a solid schedule and finding small quiet places at my family’s chaotic house. Also, watching what feels like nearly the whole Netflix library has helped. The team lead at the IBC is a challenging task. It taught me valuable skills of responsibility, leadership, and communication. The biggest learning curve was the amount of effective communication needed with superiors and team members. At the IBC, I have gained skills of teamwork and effective writing. I have also learned a tremendous amount about international business.

CIBER MSI Consortium

MSU CIBER is part of the MSI (Minority Serving Institution) Consortium, led by Georgia State University. Since April, GSU has been offering a series of webinars designed to inform faculty, students and the business community. The webinars, as well as past recordings, are available on their webpage. Click to learn more!

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MSU CIBER

Celebrates 30 Years

The IBC Team is celebrating its 30^th year as a National Resource Center designated by the U.S Department of Education, as part of the Broad College of Business! In 1990, the U.S. Department of Education designated the Broad College’s IBC as a Center for International Business Education and Research — currently, one of only 15 CIBERs in the United States and the only one in Michigan, serving US faculty, students, and businesses. Our hope to host a formal event for this occasion has been curtailed by the pandemic but we wanted to pass along some of our accomplishments in the past 30 years of our service.

MSU CIBER @ 30

Upcoming Event

October 20

Craig Allen, President,

US-China Business Council

11:00AM - 12 00 noon

Virtual

Together with the Lansing Economic Club, we are pleased invite Craig Allen to share his thoughts on the future of the US-China Business & Trade Relationship. Craig is the President of the United States-China Business Council (USCBC), a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing over 200 American companies doing business with China.