International Business & Trade

An economist's take on GM Strike, Michigan's Budget, and Trade War

Chris Holman catches up with Carol L. Cain, CBS 62 Senior Producer & Detroit Free Press Columnist and Host of Michigan Matters, Detroit for a periodic update of perspective from the city.

In their discussion they review the recent passing of their friend and frequent Michigan Matters participant L. Brooks Patterson, through his career and impact on organizations such as Automation Alley.

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, a Professor of Management at Universidad EAFIT in Colombia. Dr. Gonzalez-Perez has been coordinator of the Colombian universities relationship with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 2009; member of the SDG 1 Global Council of the World Government Summit; and represented Colombia at meetings of the United Nations. She has been involved with sustainability efforts worldwide for more than a decade, and that is the focus for our segment. Appropriately, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat focuses on the current state of sustainability and how the world is achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ratified by the member nations of the United Nations in September 2015.

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, a Professor of Management at Universidad EAFIT in Colombia. Alejandra previously served on the Academy of International Business Executive Board and currently serves as the chair of the AIB-LAC chapter (Latin America and the Caribbean), which is our focus for this segment. AIB-LAT is a chapter of the Academy of International Business, and is a leading association of scholars and specialists in the field of international business in Latin America. AIB-LAT organizes an annual conference, aimed at scholars and PhD students from Latin America working in the international business field, along with scholars from other regions interested in Latin America.

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Doug Barry. He is a director at the US-China Business Council. Prior to that, Dr. Doug Barry was a trade director in the US Department of Commerce and has also served as a foreign commercial officer in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand, plus been a journalist for ABC News in New York and London. The focus of this segment is on international trade and production in the world today and a forecast for going forward.

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Doug Barry. He is the Director of Communications and Publications at the US-China Business Council. Before joining USCBC, Dr. Doug Barry was a director in the US Foreign and Commercial Service in the US Department of Commerce, has served as a foreign commercial officer in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand, and also worked as a journalist for ABC News in New York and London. The focus of this segment is on his new role at the US-China Business Council and what the council does relative to US-China relations, international trade, and political undertakings.

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Eric Doerr is Director of Student and Corporate Engagement for the Department of Marketing in the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He has also served in multiple director roles of employer relations for the Broad College of Business and Michigan State University. The focus of this segment is on today’s job market. As a backdrop, the job market at home and abroad is driven by economic forces of supply and demand. For August 2019, the latest numbers show that of the 15 major industry groups, 12 added jobs. The three that most drove total nonfarm employment growth (on a seasonally adjusted basis) were health & social assistance, professional services, and financial activities. The three decliners for the month were information, natural resources and mining, and retail trade. Eric Doerr makes sense of today’s job market with an outlook towards the future.

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Eric Doerr is Director of Student and Corporate Engagement for the Department of Marketing in the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, and his relatively new position is the focus of our segment. As a background, the field of marketing is rapidly expanding; innovative technologies and rising customer personalization have raised the bar for industry professionals. The globally-recognized faculty of the Department of Marketing in the Broad College of Business connect cutting-edge marketing research insights to engaging industry-driven curriculum to ensure Broad marketing graduates are able to exceed these growing expectations. Eric Doerr serves as a core linkage between the department, students, and corporations in this “marketing ecosystem.”

Automation Alley is seeking Michigan companies to join its trade mission to India, the world's fastest growing economy. Trade mission participants will travel to New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Pune, India from Jan. 31 - Feb 8, 2020. India, a nation of 1.3 billion consumers, has an especially strong demand for Michigan-made products, services and technologies, including:

In this interview, Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)'s International Trade Development Manager Jacob Schroeder catches up with MBN about some of the corporation's international trade endeavors.