In Arizona, a couple took action quickly to help a number of young women get out, and fast forward to today, more than 60 are in the Phoenix area, pursuing an education and building a life.
The United States (U.S.) Mission on August 31 launched the fifth edition of the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in Nigeria, in partnership with Ascend Studios.
The third cohort of participants of the WE3A Strengthening Women Entrepreneurs in Value Chains Initiative recently graduated, contributing to the 116 businesswomen who sought training to advance their company’s potential.
Implemented locally by the Women’s Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Guyana (WCCIG), the WE3A initiative aims to provide women who own small- and medium-sized businesses in Central and South America with the tools and skills to develop their companies.
Rachel Martinez is a researcher turned entrepreneur who initially found a career in libraries. She enjoys researching different topics and helping people from different backgrounds learn. The pandemic in 2020 rocked the field of higher education where she and her co-worker, Julie Allen, worked.
With the pandemic behind us, remote work remains popular as organizations recognize the benefits, such as a measurable increase in productivity.
The program is centered around a business curriculum created by Thunderbird School of Global Management in 2005. The curriculum — called DreamBuilder — is available for free online to anyone at dreambuilder.org. It was funded by the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the global mining company based in Phoenix.
On Wednesday, July 26, Shih, along with Sanjeev Khagram, director general and dean of Thunderbird at ASU, and Wei-Ta Pan, president of the School of Business at Soochow University, jointly signed a letter of agreement to proactively address the demand for global management and professional talent in Taiwan's semiconductor and technology industries as they expand around the world.
GCTT is a collaboration of ASU’s School of Public Affairs in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, the W. P. Carey School of Business, the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. The center’s goal is to bridge the gap between technology transfer research and managerial practice and public policy formation.
Over the course of two weeks, 23 students engaged in a diverse range of activities designed to foster their personal and academic growth. They attended classes, lectures and workshops led by ASU faculty members from various departments, including the School of Sustainability, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Makerspace in the Hayden Library and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Larry Wilson spoke with the Director General and Dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, in Phoenix the other evening about Globalism. Khagram says Globalism 1.0 was the age of exploration up to the first industrial revolution, in the 19th century, in the age of colonialism and empire. World War II was certainly an international event but led to regression in globalization — and the founding of Thunderbird. Era 2.0 is after the Bretton Woods Conference and a new international order, and also, from 1945 to ‘73, the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union. “But changes were happening,” he notes, with international telephony, the fax, and the internet. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, “3.0 is post-Cold War to the global financial crisis of 2008.”