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Monday, March 11, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Business students get global lessons
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
Americans need to develop a global perspective to succeed in business overseas.
That was one message graduate business students learned during the School of Business' international business immersion week. Starting this week, 67 graduate students will attend two weeks of immersion courses on international business and entrepreneurship, said Anthony Redwood, professor of business. Last fall, the students participated in weeklong courses in total quality management and market-based management. First-year graduate students in business are required to attend all four courses, he said.
Redwood and Deepak Datta associate professor of business,
run the school's Center of International Business, which organized the international business course. Redwood said the center's objective is to internationalize the school and prepare students for the international business world.
"It is the definitive trend," he said.
An example Redwood cited of an international business venture gone bad was Ramada's failure in Australia. In the 1980s, Ramada attempted to expand into Australia but ultimately failed because it attempted to take on Australian unions.
"They didn't want to do it the Australian way," he said.
A key area for students who want to work overseas is the need to learn a foreign language. Pointing to an Italian textbook, Brian Murray, Lawrence graduate student,
said he also studied Spanish.
"These days, we have to know," he said. "It's not even an ontion."
Al Cowan, an engineering consultant and former partner in the engineering firm of Black & Veatch, spoke to the students yesterday and said survivability in foreign markets also depended on understanding that in some cultural systems, parties in a contract have to know and trust each other more than they would in the United States.
"The relationship is more important than the contract," he said.
Companies like Black & Veatch will need people who are willing to travel and who can demonstrate the flexibility foreign markets demand, Cowan said.
Several international students came with perspectives from their own countries.
Quing Feng-Liu, Shenzhen, China graduate student, said that corruption in many Asian nations was attributed to their historical ties with Confucianism and its belief in the strength of personal relationships.
"That's why corruption is so serious." he said.
Alex Verbov, Grodno, Belarus graduate student, said that in Belarus, opportunities abound for those who are willing to take the risks associated with starting a small business in the Eastern European country.
"Businesses are making 20 percent profit a month." he said.
Redwood said the course's goal was to expose students to the world's global market.
"Our students have to be sensitized that the world is different out there," he said.
The Art and Design Gallery will sponsor paintings, sculptures and assemblages by Nick Vaccaro, professor of art, from today to Friday at the Art and Design Building. For more information, call Chris Fasano at 864-5501.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel. For more information, call the center at 843-0357.
ON CAMPUS
KU women's rugby will practice at 5 p.m. today at Broken Arrow Park, 31st and Louisiana streets. For more information, call Stacey Stringfellow at 749-3380.
The International Student Association will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
The Jayhawk Association of Environmental Professionals will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Bryant Lamer at 832-9575.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. For
more information, call Ravi Hirekatur at 832-8789.
Feminist Collective Force will meet at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Regan Cowan at 838-9084.
KU Yoga Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Adam Miller at 832-0399 or Paula Duke at 542-1930.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor a Lenten invitation discussion at 7 tonight at the center. For more information, call the center at 843-0357.
KU Fencing Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at 215 Robinson Center. For more information, call John Hendrix at 864-1529.
Recovery Medicine Wheel Support Group will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Multicultural Resource Center. For more information, call Samantha at 842-4797.
Andrew Tsubaki will sponsor KU Ki-Aikido Club at 6 p.m. tomorrow at 207 Robinson
Center. For more information, call Matt Stumpe at 864-6592.
KU Environics will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Sarbpal Hundal at 864-7325.
■ KU Habitat for Humanity will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. For more information, call Todd Brennan at 832-2920.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor a church history class at 7 p.m. tomorrow. For more information, call the center at 843-0537.
Students for Wildcare will sponsor zoologist Joseph Collins on "Snake Tales" at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Jay Bullins at 749-1371.
American studies department will sponsor Rickie Solinger on "Pregnancy and Power: Women's Struggle Over Time" at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Mary Lou O'Neil at 864-
4011.
KBCT Student Ministries will sponsor a Bible study at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Adam Decatur at 841-1683.
Lupus Foundation of America will sponsor a Lupus support-group meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Gallery Room in the Lawrence Public Library. For more information, call Gretchen Huber at 832-9789.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor a Human Services Committee meeting at 8 p.m. tomorrow. For more information, call the center at 843-0357.
Christian Science Organization will discuss "Who was Mary Baker Eddy?" at 9 p.m. at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Mark Maurer at 864-6262.
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ON THE RECORD
A KU employee was the victim of an attempted burglary between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Friday when an unknown person damaged the metal door and door frame of his residence in the 3000 block of Bainbridge Cir. The damage was valued at $50, Lawrence police reported.
A KU student's radar detector was stolen and car window was damaged between 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday in the 800 block of Oak Street.
The radar detector was valued at $240, and the window was valued at $400, Lawrence police reported.
A 33-year-old KU student was the victim of an aggravated battery about 1 a.m. Friday in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police reported. The student suffered lacerations in his head and was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He received stitches and was released, his roommate said.
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OFFICE OF MINORITY AFFAIRS 25TH ANNIVERSARY
presents A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
The Office of Minority Affairs at the University of Kansas will sponsor a discussion of its 25-year history. The panel will include University faculty and former directors of the Office of Minority Affairs.
Photo of minority students who have attended the University of Kansas Courtesy of Spencer Research Library
March 12,1996 7:00 p.m. S.W. Lobby, Burge Union
Additional information about the Office of Minority Affairs 25th Anniversary is now online accessible via the WWW at http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/units/omafats/
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