Arizona State University College of Business

The Arizona State University College of Business is ranked among the top 25 business schools in the United States and clearly has the potential to emerge as one of the finest business schools in the nation. Its MBA for Executives program, for example, has been ranked eighth among public programs by Business Week, and it boasts many other distinguished programs. U.S. News and World Report, for example, named ASU’s MBA Online Program the best online business program in the nation. Corporate clients include Deere and Company, Lucent Technologies, Intel Corporation, and ChevronTexaco.

But the internationalization of our business school will be critical to its further ascent. Our business school must provide students with a global perspective, informing teaching and research with an awareness of the world economy and business opportunities. The school already offers an innovative program in partnership with Motorola in Beijing. Based in Beijing, the ASU MBA High Technology in China Program brings together the strengths of our business school and the ASU College of Engineering and Applied Science. The program offers an immersion in high technology and international management.

Global engagement by the college means more than initiating exchange programs. We must assume a leadership position in international finance and economics, collaborating with peer institutions across the Pacific, across the Atlantic, and across the Gulf of Mexico. The ASU Center on Asian and Pacific Rim Trade and Economic Development will be relevant to the new international focus of the college. We must conduct research that will enable Arizona companies to devise internationally competitive growth strategies. We must reflect the world in which we live, and the way in which business is conducted around the globe.