Automotive- and mobility-sector companies are invited to join MEDC, Ann Arbor SPARK, and MSU International Business Center for a virtual roundtable discussion to share insights into challenges and successes of entering new markets. The discussion aims to inform moderators of how export programs can be better aligned to support this industry in 2022 and beyond.This virtual event will be held February 10, 9am10:30am and is open to up to 20 companies statewide. If you are interested in participating, please contact your International Trade Manager.

This presentation offers an overview of the current problems and possibilities in the retailing industry with suggestions for educators and researchers, as well as practitioners in the area. Retailing is a service industry that exists in all the countries around the globe albeit at different levels of development. As a result, the transformation that the world is going through is most evident in retailing given its ubiquitous nature in peoples lives in the world. The digital revolution, along with changes in the macro environments and consumer behaviors, trigger and fuel this transformation.

Are you looking to offer an education abroad program? This webinar will provide you with the knowledge, experience, and resources you need to design an education abroad program at the two-year college level. The workshop is specifically targeted towards educators and will focus on all aspects of education abroad and international internships.

Multinational corporations face an unequal world in many ways, including widely varying effective tax rates in different nations (although recent moves by the US, EU and other nations have agreed to start reducing the disparities, by imposing a minimum 15% corporate tax. Nevertheless, the differences in tax rates may shrink, but not disappear. This webinar is designed to introduce academics and practitioners to the basic methods that have been used by multinationals to pay less tax in higher-tax jurisdictions, by transferring declared taxable profits to lower-taxed countries. This is not a seminar for tax accountants but rather intended as an overview or introduction to a fundamentally important subject, using simple examples that can be understood by instructors, their students and also executives in multinational companies. Across the domain of international business, the sums amount to trillions of dollars

The automotive industrys market sales are forecast to be US$3.8 trillion in 2022* - and this doesnt even account for all the value chain members and the vast network of stakeholders associated with doing business in this industrial vertical! Technological advances, government regulations and a hyper-competitive market are among the forces directly impacting a flurry of product announces and new manufacturing investments around the world. Join us with leading experts to explore some of the manufacturing, product strategy and supply chain issues facing the future of the automotive industry in an evolving paradigm.

For this webinar, we invited three well-established international business/marketing scholars. Our panelists will discuss the need for survey research to address important international business/marketing phenomena, speaking to contemporary conceptual and methodological best practices. This webinar will include short presentations followed by a discussion moderated by the co-hosts. Key Takeaways: Learn areas of research opportunity that can best be explored via survey research Gain insights into different theoretical foundations for advancing the international business/marketing literature Tips related to best practices for designing and executing survey research for publication in the international business/marketing literature

This conversation will focus on the changes we are observing in learning and careers and how executive education is changing. Panelists will also discuss implications for educators, researchers, and practitioners engaged in executive education. Recruitment and retainment of talent has become one of the biggest challenges faced by all companies around the world. this challenge is further intensified by the Great Resignation trend, particularly among the Z generation and Millennial professionals. Businesses and individuals are becoming more interested in lifelong learning and demanding new and flexible learning experiences along the way. In fact, the emergence of a broader, lifelong learning perspective is noted by AACSB against the traditional front-loaded model of higher education in business schools For additional info and registration, please click on website link

IBC/MSU-CIBER presented on the Global Advanced Manufacturing Industry at the Advanced Manufacturing Roundtable hosted and organized by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Automation Alley. Michigan manufacturing companies joined the roundtable to learn more about the industry and resources to support them with their international business matters.

Women in Leadership Panel include: April Clobes, President & CEO, Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, Kelly Preston, Owner & President, Capital Steel & Wire, and Denise Maybank, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, City University of New York. Our moderator will be Elaine Hardy, Director for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, City of East Lansing & 2020 ATHENA Award recipient.

Our study introduces the complementarity perspective to the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) research as a process to compare the two entrepreneurial ecosystems across different countries and institutions. We apply the mixed method techniques to understand what works and what does not in the ecosystem and how regional and industry level conditions may facilitate more sustainable, resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems, where entrepreneurs grow and internationalize. Our empirical part focuses on two entrepreneurial ecosystem (Istanbul in Turkey and Reading in the UK) models characterized by different EE taxonomy pillars and embedded in different local and institutional contexts. As a result of the study, two findings emerge. First, we find three distinct complementarities in both EEs: access to resources, effective use of resources, entrepreneurial orientation, and ecosystem awareness. Second, industry and regional conditions facilitate specific entrepreneurship activity, affects scaling and internationalization. The mechanism which enables firm scaling and internationalization in the ecosystem is much dependent on the presence and hiring by MNEs in a region. For more information and registration information, please click on website link