Every year, Alfaisal University College of Business sends a group of MBA students on international trip. The MBA international trips expose students to different cultures and business experience. The MBAs are learning new ideas from new faculty and experts in different business and management areas.<\/p>\n
This is year on June 9, 2013, fifteen MBA students went to the USA for an educational seminar designed specifically for them \u2014 \u201cBusiness Startups: Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship\u201d <\/em>at Boise State University.<\/p>\n The session was organized by senior administrators at the College of Business at Alfaisal University and the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University. The program emphasis was on the early stage of business formation including conception; initial funding, getting customers and making changes to a business plan along the way.<\/p>\n Instructors and guest speakers were selected to give the optimum blend of academic and business experience. All of the instructors have many years of experience teaching in Boise State\u2019s MBA programs\u2014both traditional and executive\u2014and many of them also lead executive education programs. Guest speakers such as Clay Young, CEO, Inovus gave students a glimpse into well-run, Western start-ups. Joel Hickmant, Regional CEO of US Bank and Kevin Learned Director of Venture College at Boise State \u00a0also spoke to the students.<\/p>\n Classroom instruction topics and professors were Presentation Strategies, Pat Delana; Design Thinking, Roy Glen; Personal Selling, Cheryl Larabee; Scanning the \u00a0Periphery and The Hambrick Model, Nancy Napier; Marketing Opportunity and Early Stage Financing, Kent Neupert; and Turnarounds and Dramatic Repositioning, Courtney White.<\/p>\n The 8-day event wasn\u2019t all in the classroom. Recreational activities for the group included many outdoor activities such as lunches and dinners hosted by Boise State University, rafting the Payette river and tour of Boise. The Alfaisal University MBA students highly appreciated the trip and the organizers.<\/p>\n Dr. Daniel W. Lund, Alfaisal University College of Business Acting Dean stated \u201cThe USA MBA trip to Boise State University \u00a0brought together high quality executive education by world-class professors, interactive talks with American CEOs, and tours of thriving of US businesses. Boise State University officials report that \u2018the Alfaisal University MBA Students performed at a world-class level.\u2019 We are proud of our exceptional students as they represent Alfaisal University to the world\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year, Alfaisal University College of Business sends a group of MBA students on international trip. The MBA international trips…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"college-department":[{"term_id":12,"name":"College of Business","slug":"college-of-business","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"college-department","description":"","parent":0,"count":196,"filter":"raw"}],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive","college-department-college-of-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n