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Lansing Regional Chamber: Economic Club – Roads of the Future

Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center 219 S Harrison Rd, East Lansing

The event's featured speaker is Mark de la Vergne, vice president of project development at Cavnue. Mark works closely with transportation officials from across the country and local project stakeholders to build the roadmap for the future of their roads. During the presentation, Mark will discuss the rapid advancement of technology on vehicles and how the future of roads can accelerate the benefits of automated and autonomous vehicles. He will also provide an update on the MDOT/Cavnue Michigan project that was announced by Governor Whitmer in 2020.

MSI Consortium – Bibliometrics in International Business: Guiding Future Research

virtual

This webinar provides an introduction to bibliometrics as a research tool, the basic steps in preparing and implementing a bibliometrics project, ways of analyzing and discussing data-driven results, and providing frameworks for guiding future research. The webinar will provide several examples of how bibliometrics has been used in international marketing/business.

Key Takeaways:

Understanding bibliometrics as a research tool to explore various disciplines or topics within a discipline.

A stepwise guide to undertaking bibliometrics research.

Developing data-driven conceptual frameworks as means of guiding future research

This is a free webinar, but pre-registration is required.

MSI Consortium – Teaching the Integrating Role of the Finance Function in Global Business Management

virtual

In this webinar, we will discuss a framework for teaching the integrating role of the finance function in the management of a global business. We will introduce and discuss two diagrams, corporate strategic framework diagram and free cash flow diagram, which we have used in the context of a global management simulation game, and demonstrate specific examples of their use in the classroom.

Key Takeaways:

1. The hierarchical relationship of corporate strategy, operating strategy, and financial strategy.

2. Free cash flow as an important indicator of the operating performance of a firm.

3. The potential benefits of management simulations in teaching global business management.

This is a free webinar, but registration is required.