Thunderbird Launches New Blog On Entrepreneurship

(GLENDALE, Ariz) – Thunderbird School of Global Management launched a new entrepreneurship blog today on the Thunderbird Knowledge Network, an interactive, multimedia forum that gives open-access to the expertise and insights of Thunderbird’s network of faculty, alumni and corporate partners around the world on the latest, most relevant global business issues and trends.

The new Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship Blog will include stories, videos, podcasts and profiles of Walker Center faculty, alumni entrepreneurs and guest speakers. Readers can participate by posting comments on any post.

Thunderbird instructor Melissa Beran Samuelson helped the Walker Center launch the blog with her first report from a global Islamic women’s conference in Malaysia.

“Two hundred Muslim women from around the world are expected to attend and address such topics as creating change through communication, change through philanthropy, change through interpretation, and change through collaboration,” Samuelson writes from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she is participating as a panelist at the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equity global conference. “My goal in attending is to share what Thunderbird is doing to support women’s economic empowerment in the Muslim world, gain further perspectives on issues relating to Muslim women globally, and to connect with an amazing variety of women from around the globe, some of whom are downright courageous in their work.”

Other blog contributors include Walker Center director Robert Hisrich, Ph.D.; and fellow professors Ernesto Poza; Steven Stralser, Ph.D.; Amanda M. Bullough, Ph.D.; and Gary Gibbons, Ph.D.

Hisrich says the Walker Center blog will serve as a gathering place for entrepreneurs, where they can share ideas and stay current on Walker Center programs and services.

“The entrepreneurial community is the one that is going to bring the economy back from the global recession,” Hisrich says. “They will make the greatest contribution in net employment and the greatest contribution in new products and services. It’s not going to be large corporations.”

Other blogs on the Thunderbird Knowledge Network include Global Leaders Can Be Made, a blog about global leadership, global mindset, global entrepreneurship and global citizenship by Thunderbird President Ángel Cabrera, Ph.D.; The World Café, featuring adventures in cross-cultural negotiation by Thunderbird professors Karen Walch , Ph.D., and Denis Leclerc, Ph.D.; and Thunderbird Student Voices, a blog featuring insights from students in different programs.

Also included on the Web site is a YouTube video discussion of the Thunderbird Question: “What can global leaders do to create sustainable prosperity worldwide?”  Participants can watch a short video of Cabrera setting up and posing the question and then respond with their own video posts on the subject.

Thunderbird offers a wide range of degree and nondegree programs for companies, working professionals and full-time students, including executive education, traditional and accelerated MBAs in Global Management, Executive MBAs (in the U.S. and Europe), Evening MBA, Global MBA On-Demand, the Global MBA for Latin American Managers, the Master of Science in Global Management and the Master of Arts in Global Affairs and Management.

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Founded in 1946, Thunderbird is the first and oldest graduate management school focused exclusively on global business. It is regarded as the world’s leading institution in the education of global managers and has operations in the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe, including Russia. Ranked No. 1 in international business by the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report, and The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive 2007 Business School Survey, Thunderbird is dedicated to educating global leaders who create sustainable prosperity worldwide. The school’s programs facilitate the development of the global mindset, which is critical to managing effectively in different social, economic and political environments. More than 38,000 students have graduated from Thunderbird, and its alumni live and work in more than 140 countries. For more about Thunderbird, please visit: http://www.thunderbird.edu/.

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