Most accounting students don't get to sit in on board meetings for the International Accounting Standards Board, but seventeen Brigham Young University students participating in the School of Accountancy's first international accounting study abroad to London did just that.
The emergence of China, marked by a shift from state-owned enterprise to privatized business, motivated Professor Gerry Sanders to focus his research on the controls and mechanisms that drive business in China.
Seventy students in the Asia, Europe, and London programs spend four to five weeks during the summer immersed in the global marketplace as they visit and study organizations in their respective destinations.
The Kay and Yvonne Whitmore Global Management Center has teamed with the Consortium Institute of Management and Business Analysis (CIMBA) in northern Italy to offer students an international business experience designed for academic hands-on learning and cultural experiences.
The Kay and Yvonne Whitmore Global Management Center plans to open exchange programs to France and Portugal after cultivating partnerships at a European conference.
Michael Thompson, assistant dean of the Marriott School, and Lee Radebaugh, director the Kay and Yvonne Whitmore Global Management Center, visited seven different universities throughout Korea, China, and Hong Kong this past March in search of those partnerships.
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