BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University's Kelley School of Business today (Sept. 1) announced the formation of a new institute that will house its international initiatives and reach out to other programs on the Bloomington campus with a global focus.
The Kelley School's Institute for International Business (IIB) will be home to the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), which recently was awarded a $1.55 million Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The primary emphasis of the IIB is to secure major government and private sector grants to support research and teaching initiatives related to international business. It will also have a significant outreach agenda that will engage faculty, students, business and government leaders in the state with emerging markets worldwide."The Kelley School is recognized as one of the most important business schools in the world, and we are routinely asked to collaborate with leading business schools, companies and government organizations around the globe. The IIB will provide the school with a means of fully leveraging these relationships for the advancement of our research, teaching and outreach missions," said Dan Smith, dean of the Kelley School.
"With our widely recognized programs in social enterprise and entrepreneurship, this new Institute in particular will enable us to further our already significant presence in major emerging markets," Smith added.
Bruce Jaffee, professor of business economics and public policy and the institute's executive director, said the IIB will serve as the administrative home for the cooperative MBA program between the Kelley School and the International Graduate Business School-Zagreb. That partnership has provided short-term international teaching opportunities for more than 20 Kelley faculty members since 2002.
For more information about the institute, call the institute's managing director, LaVonn Schlegel, at 001/812-855-5944.
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