The CIMaR 2008 Conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18-21 June, 2008. It will be hosted by NUPIN, the Center for Research on the Internationalization of the Firm at the Coppead Graduate School of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and by IAG, the Business School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

This special interest group of the AMA has a long history of partnership with the annual UIC Marketing and Entrepreneurship Research Symposium. At this year's Research Symposium, we are instituting a consortium for doctoral students to encourage and guide students who are considering or are researching the intersecting domains of marketing and entrepreneurship.

Doctoral students selected for the consortium will have their Symposium fees waived, have complimentary meals during the official portion of the Consortium and the Symposium, and have a portion of their hotel expenses subsidized.

Meeting Agenda

* Latin America: Ex-Im Bank Country Risk Outlook

* Russia: Perspectives on Russian Risk Assessment

* India: Business Climate

* United States: Recovery or Decline

* Coface Outlook and Ratings