This summer 33 students, including two from McCombs, participated in the BBA Global Business Program on the UT campus. The four-week program brings university students from Austria, Brazil and China to build management skills and get intensive intercultural exposure.
Students formed cross-cultural teams to compete in an online simulation which pits global companies against each other [...]
Students Learn Cross-Cultural Teamwork, Management Skills at BBA Global Business Program
August 28th, 2009 · Filed under: BBA · Student News
Posted by Tracy Mueller
Tags: · Angie Carter, BBA Global, Chris Williams, CIBER, Deirdre Mendez, international business, Robert Duvic, Study Abroad
Monterrey Tec Hosts McCombs Leadership, Strengthens Decades-Long Partnership
November 25th, 2008 · Filed under: Executive Education · Faculty News · MBA
Posted by Rob Meyer
How did Wal-Mart successfully penetrate the Mexican market? How does Mexico’s concrete behemoth CEMEX tailor its offerings to reach, and help, the less fortunate? And how do two of the world’s leading business schools strengthen and build on their decades-long partnership? These and many other questions were on the table as 13 McCombs faculty members, [...]
Tags: · CIBER, David Platt, Linda Gerber, Montery Tec, Texas Executive MBA at Mexico City, Thomas Gilligan
CIBER Team Brings Home 3rd in Foreign Language Case Competition
November 17th, 2008 · Filed under: Honors & Awards · Student News
Posted by Tracy Mueller
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) earned 3rd place at the Business Language Case Competition Nov.7 at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. The team earned a cash prize of $1000 from the event, which was co-sponsored by CIBER.
Tags: · Business Language Case Competition, case competition, CIBER, McCombs School of Business, student competition
Cross-College Collaboration Strengthens McCombs Outreach
November 12th, 2008 · Filed under: Events · Research
Posted by Tracy Mueller
Op-ed by CIBER’s Deirdre Mendez and David Platt
The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and The University of Texas at Austin’s South Asia Institute (SAI) will team up on Nov. 14 to offer a workshop in Houston on Assessing and Managing Business Risk in India. The workshop is the latest in CIBER’s series [...]
Tags: · business in India, CIBER, India, India research, international business, McCombs School of Business, outsourcing, outsourcing research, outsourcing workshop, South Asia Institute, University of Texas

