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2020/2021 IBC Annual Report

The 2019 Nationwide Benchmarking Report on International Business Education at Community Colleges uses an IBEX (International Business Education Index) score to provide benchmarks for community colleges. The IBEX score consists of five “pillars” that are important to strategically implement international business education programs and activities at community colleges. Comparisons to previous years are also available. For the first time, the benchmarking report also provides a look at international entrepreneurship education at community colleges across the nation. The study was conducted in cooperation with our partner organizations, Community Colleges for International Development (CCID) and the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE).

The fifth in a series of reports looking at issues of internationalization and international business education. This paper focuses on international business and education partnerships in Singapore and Indonesia.

This fourth in a series of reports looking at issues of internationalization and international business education in community colleges, this paper focuses on entrepreneurship education.

This third in a series of reports looking at issues of internationalization and international business education in community colleges, this paper looks at internationalization in rural colleges, with a specific focus on Snow College in Utah.

This second in a series of reports looking at issues of internationalization and international business education in community colleges, this paper focuses on the use of virtual teams to internationalize business education.

This first in a series of reports looking at issues of internationalization and international business education in community colleges, this paper focuses on how presidents drive internationalization on community college campuses.

The 2016 Nationwide Benchmarking Report on International Business Education at Community Colleges uses an IBEX (International Business Education Index) score to provide benchmarks for community colleges. The IBEX score consists of five “pillars” that are important to strategically implement international business education programs and activities at community colleges. Comparisons to previous years are also available. For the first time, the benchmarking report also provides a look at international entrepreneurship education at community colleges across the nation. The study was conducted in cooperation with our partner organizations, Community Colleges for International Development (CCID) and the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE).

Originally published by The Conversation.

The A-CAPP Center is pleased to announce its most recent report on Brand Protection. Released at Interpol's International Intellectual Property Crime Conference and in partnership with Underwriters Laboratories, this report discusses critical aspects of the counterfeiting problem that need to be considered over the next five years.

Originally published by The Conversation.

Originally published by The Conversation.

The 2015 Nationwide Benchmarking Report on International Business Education at Community Colleges uses an IBEX (International Business Education Index) score to provide benchmarks for community colleges. The IBEX score consists of five “pillars” that are important to strategically implement international business education programs and activities at community colleges. Comparisons to previous years are also available. For the first time, the benchmarking report also provides and IEX (International Education Index) score, which measures the degree to which Community Colleges emphasize internationalization of education in their curricula and educational activities. The study was conducted in cooperation with our partner organization, Community Colleges for International Development (CCID).

About 90 percent of global demand is not fully met by local supply, and global supply chains will soon account for 25 percent of multinational firms' performance--meanwhile, supply chains need to become 43 percent more global in the next decade just to maintain a firm's competitive edge. Written by three of today's leading experts on the subject--each from Michigan State University, the uncontested world leader of supply chain management--Global Supply Chain Management gives you the know-how and tools to dramatically boost supply chain efficiency by making it a core element of your overall corporate strategy.

A Primer on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), by Hair, Hult, Ringle, and Sarstedt, provides a concise yet very practical guide to understanding and using PLS structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). PLS-SEM is evolving as a statistical modeling technique and its use has increased exponentially in recent years within a variety of disciplines, due to the recognition that PLS-SEM’s distinctive methodological features make it a viable alternative to the more popular covariance-based SEM approach. This text—the only comprehensive book available to explain the fundamental aspects of the method—includes extensive examples on SmartPLS software, and is accompanied by multiple data sets that are available for download from the accompanying website (www.pls-sem.com).

The latest 2012 data are compared with data from 2008, 2009, and 2010 for community colleges. The IBEX (International Business Education Index) score provides benchmarks for community colleges. It consists of five “pillars” that are important to strategically implement international business education programs and activities at community colleges. They are: Strategic Commitment, Program Offerings, Organizational Infrastructure, Funding, and Investment in Faculty. The study was conducted by Michigan State University and Lansing Community College with funding from Title VIB grants from the U.S. Department of Education.

The overall IBEX score increased to its highest ever in 2012 to 0.71 (with a possible score ranging from 0 to 1). The previous IBEX scores were significantly lower at 0.27 (2008), 0.27 (2009), and 0.25 (2010). Thus, the 2012 score of 0.71 is both a remarkable increase and an encouraging sign that international business education at the nation’s community colleges is valued and important in an effort to increase the international competitiveness of the country.

The full report can be freely downloaded at http://global.broad.msu.edu/ibc/publications/research/.

Tamper-evident (TE) and tamper-resistant (TR) packaging provide an opportunity for incremental actions which can provide a means to combat counterfeit products, product diversion, shoplifting, cargo theft, return and warranty fraud, and unauthorized refills. This backgrounder provides information on TE and TR packaging including their regulatory definitions, the current and likely future extent of their use, and their applications for brand protection.

This A-CAPPP Backgrounder was released in April 2012.

The Director of the International Business Center at Michigan State University – Tomas Hult – just published the new version of the Total Global Strategy book with George Yip. TGS has been the market leader both in multinational corporations’ board rooms and in executive MBA programs for years. From General Motors using the TGS framework to restructure their Asia operations to Michigan State University using it in its world-leading executive training programs in supply chain management to being rated as a top 30 business book previously, Total Global Strategy is the authority on practical and sophisticated global strategy development and implementation. TGS can be bought on Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/TGS2012) and at all major booksellers.

Total Global Strategy tackles industry globalization potential and a firm’s alignment between its global strategy and the industry’s globalization potential. TGS then focuses on five critical global strategy levers (global market participation, global products/services, locating global activities and supply chains, global marketing, and making competitive moves globally). TGS also helps build the global organization worldwide or with a regional focus, offers concrete measures of all aspects of the firm’s industry, strategy, and organization – and concludes with a very hands-on and practical how-to chapter on conducting a global strategy analysis. The 2012 version of TGS includes critical updates and revisions throughout, with a major emphasis now being on the notion of outwardly focused as opposed to inwardly focused global strategy. This means that global strategy today is a mechanism to engage the global marketplace, align the firm with partners and other collaborators, and center attention on global customers (as opposed to a focus on only building the infrastructure of the global firm as a way to be more effective and efficient when an industry is ripe for globalization).

Although intercultural communication should be central to business language education because it serves as the context within which all aspects of international business take place, it is not a significant component of most business language programs. A need exists for cultural learning components for business language courses that are based on a solid foundation in intercultural communication. CLEAR''s Introductory Business CD-ROM-German includes videotaped interviews with American business professionals (in English) who have had significant interactions with the target culture. These interviews provide case studies based on intercultural communication theory. Following the "critical incident" framework of Richard Brislin and colleagues, students navigate the cultural waters of business environments through activities inviting critical reflection and alternative explanations of behaviors. MSU CIBER and CLEAR propose to create business culture learning materials for Korean, Chinese and Russian using an earlier template.