Tom is a globally recognized expert on Industry 4.0 and its impact on business. As executive director and CEO of Automation Alley, Michigans Industry 4.0 knowledge center, Kelly oversees strategic planning and all ongoing activities for the organization, including programs and services designed to help businesses increase revenue, reduce costs and make strategic decisions during a time of rapid technological change. EVENT PROGRAM: 11:30 AM - Welcome​ 11:45 AM - Presentations Start Register in advance for this meeting

Christian Fischer, President and CEO of Georgia-Pacific is joined by Dr. John McIntyre, Executive Director, Georgia Tech CIBER and Ani Agnihotri, Managing Partner of UIBS, to discuss how global markets, consumer trends, and manufacturing will change in the post COVID-19 pandemic era. Join us for a keynote by our main speaker and a panel discussion with Q&A immediately after.

Interested in learning which (digital) tools and teaching formats educators at business schools can use to improve sustainability education and carbon literacy among students? If so, join us for a webinar highlighting new teaching formats, (digital) tools and other teaching material educators can apply in their sustainability-related management courses. This is a free webinar, but registration is required.

A one-day, virtual conference to transformbusiness education for a globalized world.

Partnering with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Commission of Mid-Michigan to feature Professor Loretta Ross, Institute for Democratic Education and Culture. Professor Ross appears regularly in major media outlets about the issues of our day.She was recently featured in aNew York Timespiece, What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? which will be the focus of the conversation. The program begins at 11 a.m. Virtual networking will occur before the program from 10:40 to 11 a.m. and after the program from noon to 12:15 p.m.

Speaker A panel of speakers will present For speaker information, please see program information/registration link. The Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan focuses on global issues of interest to the mid-Michigan business community. The monthly GB Club luncheons provide outstanding speakers and relaxed networking opportunities. With extensive international experience, the speakers wrap personal insights around a practical and up-to-the-minute approach to conducting international trade.

Interested in learning how well equipped your students are for inclusion? If so, join our webinar describing a new assessment instrument – the Inclusion Competencies Inventory (ICI). To date, diversity research and training has seldom taken a competency-based approach. Instead, training emphasizing white privilege or unconscious bias is more common in some countries, even though it occasionally results in resistance and there is little research evidence that it works. Building on the way we teach cross-cultural differences and utilize intercultural assessments, we focus on an individual-level, competency-based approach that is less likely to engender resistance and more likely to promote personal and organizational change in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. After describing the rigorous instrumentation process used to create the ICI, an expert diversity trainer will describe her experiences using the ICI to trigger diversity, equity, and inclusion work in three different organizational settings. This is a FREE webinar, but registration is required. Please click on the link to register.

One-day IBI event organized in partnership with George Washington University CIBER.

Dr. Robert K. McMahan is set to present at the upcoming MBN Speaker Series on Wednesday, March 24th! Dr. McMahan is President of Kettering University, one of the nations premier engineering, science, business universities, and is a national leader in preparing STEM and business entrepreneurs and innovators. Dr. McMahan has extensive national and international speaking, consulting, and management experience in organizations and initiatives related to technology and product development, research policy, investment capital, entrepreneurship and innovation-based economic development. Register in advance.

Are you using case studies in your own research, supervising case-based research or interested in doing a case study in the future? If so, join our webinar presented by the authors of the 2021 JIBS Decade Award winning article Theorizing from case studies: Towards a pluralist future for international business research.The authors will discuss the key arguments from their 2011 paper, in particular the different forms that theorizing from case studies can take. They will adopt a critical stance towards inductive theory building and recommend contextualized explanation as a promising alternative to doing case studies. They will also cover developments in case research since the publication of their 2011 paper, not just in international business but in management and the social sciences more generally. They will share with the audience what they see as the most exciting opportunities for case research in the future. Participants in the webinar will gain a state-of-the-art understanding of case study methodology and an appreciation of the various options for achieving contextualized explanation in their studies. This is a free webinar, but registration is required.