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Global Business Opportunities: USA & China Immersion Trips

Explore international business with trips to New York, Moscow, and China. Attend lectures, meet industry experts, and visit major companies. Earn credits and expand your global perspective. Register now for an enriching experience!

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Global Business Opportunities: USA & China Immersion Trips

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  1. More Internationalisation@ FEB Internationalisation isn’t just exchanges

  2. Ekonomika trips • New York • dates: February 3-10, 2014 • companies, NYU, UN, Nasdaq — but also a musical or a basketball game (both optional) • cost: approx 1050 Euros • Moscow • dates: April 8-13, 2014 • Companies, HSE, FIT, BE Embassy, but ofcoursealsotheKremlinetc • cost: approx 600 Euros

  3. New FEB Initiative: China lectures by Dr S. Grand • Lectures provide Grand’s (disconcerting) insider’s view on business in China • Public opening lecture on Monday Dec 2, noon, Zeger Van Hee, followed by four ‘closed’ lectures 18:00-20:00 on Dec 2, 3, 4, and 5, HOG 00.85 • You earn a KU certificate if you attend all • Need to register!! (35 seats only). Info and registration onwww.econ.kuleuven.be/iii

  4. USA Immersion Initiative (Chicago/StLouis) • 11-day field trip @ Chicago, St Louis (Easter break), prepared by • 13 seminar sessions @ Leuven (Feb 10 till March 24); Papers and presentations on following topics • General US issues: econ/pol history; current issues; trade policies • EU/US areas of conflict: GMO pro and con, Boeing v Airbus before WTO; climate change • Selected sectors/industries, related to the companies that we hope to visit in April (Kraft, Monsanto, ADM or Cargill, etc) Presentations commented on by experts (consultants, Embassy, EU, etc). Adversarial sessions. Active participation. • Earns you 6 ECTS (‘capita selecta 2e sem’, on your ISP)

  5. The trip • Chicago: • Futures markets • manycompanies, • Uof Chicago, De Paul U • Decatur IL: ADM (Agr commodities) • Weekend atUIllinois, Urbana-Champaign: • Oneortwobrieftalksby UI academics • MeetwithstudentsUI’s BUS & ACES • optionalsports match (tbc) • Time off • St Louis, MO: AB Inbev (?), Monsanto, Nestlé USA

  6. The trip

  7. Questions? www.econ.kuleuven.be/iii Piet.Sercu@kuleuven.be

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