Experts on trade and exports to speak at MSOE
| Published: 04/20/2006 |
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Program open to small businesses
Milwaukee small businesses and MSOE students will have one-on-one access to information on trade and exports Monday, May 8, as experts will discuss opportunities for new-to-export and new-to-market companies who want to do business in the Middle East and North Africa. The speakers are Kam Shah, project manager - Middle East/North Africa Business Information Center, Washington D.C., and Patrick Wall, principal commercial officer, U.S. Commercial Service, Dubai. The two are leading a session at the 42nd Annual Wisconsin International Trade Conference in Milwaukee the following day.
The opportunity to access such timely expertise will enhance MSOE business students' understanding of export issues, according to Joe Papp, professor and chairman of the Rader School of Business. "It also will further encourage them to think globally, especially those who are planning to start their own businesses."
The program is in cooperation with Milwaukee's U.S. Export Assistance Center, one of 16 Small Business Association/U.S. Department of Commerce offices to support small- or medium-sized businesses with local export assistance.
MSOE Rader School of Business
MSOE's Rader School of Business offers students something different and more useful than the traditional business administration program. Students receive the same primary education as those in traditional programs with an added bonus -- they learn to be "power users" of the computer in all functional areas of business. It offers bachelor's degrees in business, international business, management and management information systems. Master's degrees are offered in engineering management (traditional and accelerated) and medical informatics. Businesses and other organizations recognize the quality of an MSOE business degree. Its graduate placement rate for the past five years is 99 percent, continuing a 45-year tradition of providing graduates with a solid business education combined with hands-on business applications. Rader School of Business also is home to the Uihlein/Spitzer Chair of Entrepreneurship, currently chaired by businessman and entrepreneur G. Woodrow Adkins.