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The GT CIBER, created in 1993, is one of the thirty-one
national resource centers of excellence in international business funded by the U.S. Department of Education. It
is administratively located in the Georgia
Tech College of Management, and also collaborates with the Ivan
Allen College.
Our mission as a CIBER is to ensure the long-term international economic competitiveness of the United States
through support of research, business education initiatives, and corporate outreach activities.
GT CIBER Activities:
- Funding research in the field of International Business (IB)
- Encouraging the development of IB curricular initiatives
- Hosting conferences, colloquia, and fora related to global business
- Working with the local globally-focused business community
- Facilitating overseas educational opportunities for business students
GT CIBER Guiding Principles:
- Capitalize on the strengths and
competencies of Georgia Tech as a
leading technological university.
- Serve as a national pedagogical
model of internationalization for
business schools embedded in technology-oriented
universities.
- Leverage the extensive network
of international business assets and
connections in the Metropolitan Atlanta
region.
- Devise broad-spectrum and innovative
internationalization strategies through
multidisciplinary programs, units,
and research centers.
- Ensure greater infusion of business
languages and global competence into
interdisciplinary studies.
- Provide greater opportunities for
students to gain international knowledge
and experience.
- Assist faculty in building synergies
between teaching, research, and other
professional work with an international
or comparative scope through goal-oriented
consortia.
- Design initiatives that are relevant
and responsive to the regional business
community's economic development needs.
- Stress programs whose delivery is
"portable" and which have
a lasting impact. Activities that
maximize national and regional impact.
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