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Special Professional Programs

Academy of International Business (AIB)

Established in 1959, AIB is the premier professional organization for international business educators, researchers, and consultants. It publishes the highly regarded Journal of International Business Studies. The objectives of the AIB are to foster education and to advance professional standards in the field of international business.

E-mail: AIB@cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.aibworld.net

Asia-Pacific Center for Executive Development (APCED)

APCED's primary function is to coordinate executive-level management programs, seminars, and workshops tailored to the needs of business organizations and the public sector. Participants in these programs come from local, regional, and international communities. One of APCED's major programs is the Advanced Management Program, a five-week intensive residential summer program that brings together senior executives and managers from the United States and all areas of the Pacific Basin. Another program is the Hawai'i Management Program offered annually in the fall. It is designed for local executives, managers, and entrepreneurs who participate in a series of management seminars totaling 90 classroom hours. 

E-mail: mmkimmer@cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.cba.hawaii.edu

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Studies Center

The APEC Studies Center was formed in July 1994 as a joint venture of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the East-West Center and is one of the founding members of the United States APEC Study Center Consortium. APEC has become the primary vehicle for developing a sense of economic community in the Asia Pacific region. The 18 countries that currently comprise APEC constitute about half of the world's total annual output in terms of GNP and represent more than 40 percent of the world's total merchandise trade.

E-mail: cmorriso@hawaii.edu
Web: www.cba.hawaii.edu/apec

Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business

The Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business was established in July 2000 to integrate entrepreneurship and e-business initiatives into the curriculum and provide outreach programs for the University and business communities. Curriculum programs include a three-course summer certificate in entrepreneurship administered by PAMI, and undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship, internet marketing and e-commerce. Outreach programs include a business plan competition, a student entrepreneurship club, entrepreneurial and e-business internships, and a distinguished lecture series. 

E-mail: ceeb@cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.cba.hawaii.edu/ceeb

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (FIMA) Research Center

The FIMA Research Center is the newest addition to the University of Hawai'i's major research activities focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. University of Hawai'i is the very first academic institution in the United States (probably in the world as well) that offers Asian finance courses at three levels of academic programs: PhD, MBA, and undergraduate programs. The FIMA Research Center is spearheading both academic and policy research on financial markets development in the Asia-Pacific region, integrating the academic and practitioner viewpoints. The FIMA Research Center is the home of the premier academic journal, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, which publishes the highest quality theoretical and empirical research on financial markets of the region.

The FIMA Research Center's activities signify the University of Hawai'i's long-standing commitment to a better understanding of the Asia-Pacific region.

E-mail: rhee@cba.hawaii.edu

Center for Global Japanese Investment and Finance

The Center for Global Japanese Investment and Finance was founded in November 1997. Its mission is to research and study the Japanese financial market: its global investment policies and strategies and ways in which the United States, Hawai'i, and Japan can receive mutual economic benefits through balanced investments in Hawai'i.

E-mail: misawa@cba.hawaii.edu

The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

Funded by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, the UH CIBER serves as a clearinghouse for international business research and development activities at the University of Hawai'i. As on of 28 such centers at major universities across the U.S., the UH CIBER serves as a national resource for improved international business techniques and strategies, as well as a regional resource providing training and research designed to meet the needs of companies doing business with the Asia-Pacific.

Working with language and area studies faculty at the University, CIBER has promoted the creation of interdisciplinary business and language courses. Other curriculum projects supported include the innovative Field Study in Asia course, and the annual PAMI Summer Program. The UH CIBER funds faculty research projects and provides travel support for faculty to present papers at international conferences. Outreach and executive education initiatives include working with various community organizations to sponsor workshops and other training activities. 

E-mail: ciber@cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.cba.hawaii.edu/ciber

Office of Executive Education

The Office of Executive Education designs and coordinates executive-level management development programs, seminars and workshops designed to meet the specific needs of organizations in the public and private sector.

Participants for these programs come from local, regional and international organizations. The primary thrust of the Office of Executive Education is custom designed programs. It also offers the Hawai'i Management Program, a 96 contact hour program designed for Hawai'i-based mid level executives and managers who wants to maintain a competitive advantage and gain the necessary skills to enhance their careers.

E-mail: kimmer@cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.cba.hawaii.edu

Family Business Center of Hawai'i

The Family Business Center of Hawai'i is a partnership between Hawai'i's family business community and the University of Hawai'i's College of Business Administration. The mission of the Family Business Center is "equipping, educating, and celebrating families in business." The center provides opportunities for the families to address many of the challenges they face by providing educational seminars and a forum for the exchange of information between families so that they can survive and thrive into and through the 21st century.

E-mail: kimmer@cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www. cba.hawaii.edu

Hawai'i Real Estate Center (HREC)

The Hawai'i Real Estate Center was established in 1961 to provide a focus for property rights research in the state of Hawai'i. It is a policy oriented center and has provided research studies on land use and international investment issues affecting the state. In recent years, the HREC has expanded its research mission to address intellectual property rights issues and e-commerce issues as cyberspace interacts with real space. The center is funded by research grants and consulting contracts from private and government sources. It maintains an archive of Hawai'i specific information.

E-mail: nordway@busadm.cba.hawaii.edu

Pacific Asian Management Institute (PAMI)

PAMI was established in 1977 as an institute of international management education and research bridging East and West. Students, teachers, managers, and government officials from more than 170 companies and 200 institutions in 22 countries have attended cross-cultural, international management courses and training programs developed by PAMI. PAMI also coordinates research on international business issues.

The Pacific Asian Management Institute coordinates a summer program in international business during the UH Outreach College Summer Sessions. The PAMI curriculum features international business courses in management, marketing, finance, business economics, entrepreneurship and human resource management. The Pacific Asian Lecture Series (PALS), open to the public, is part of the PAMI summer program.

PAMI is the secretariat for the Pacific Asian Consortium on International Business Education and Research (PACIBER), with 28 member universities in the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Oceania.

E-mail: pami@pami.cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.cba.hawaii.edu/pami

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

The Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is an academic journal published five times a year by Elsevier Science publishers B.V. (North-Holland) in collaboration with the FIMA Research Center. The journal provides a specialized forum for the publication of the highest quality theoretical and empirical research on capital markets of the Asia-Pacific region and represents a significant milestone in the FIMA Research Center's program and objectives as it effectively reaches a broader audience in terms of current developments in the Asian and Pacific capital markets. Its primary emphasis will be placed on the following areas: 

• investment and portfolio management
• theories of market equilibrium
• valuation of market equilibrium
• behavior of asset prices in financial sectors
• normative theory of financial management
• capital markets development
• market mechanism

Pacific Business Center Program

The Pacific Business Center Program, sponsored by the University and the Economic Development Administration of the US Department of Commerce, provides businesses, government agencies, and community groups, a variety of business consultant services at nominal cost. PBCP offers university students opportunities to work with its staff to assist its clients solve a wide variety of business problems. Such work includes market research, feasibility studies, product development, strategic and financial planning, loan packaging, and management consultation. PBCP serves clients in Hawai'i, the Territories of American Samoa and Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republics of Palau and of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

E-mail: director@pbcp.cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.cba.hawaii.edu/pbcp

Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM)

PRIISM is a center for research and educational activities. Drawing on a variety of academic disciplines, PRIISM focuses on information systems and technologies and management of organizations. Its primary objective is to promote research on the development, implementation, and use of information and communication technologies in organizations.

E-mail: priism@busadm.cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.priism.hawaii.edu

Internships and Career Development

A full-time internship director helps to provide opportunities for students to gain real world experience while at the same time earning academic credits. Through the internship program, students are able to practice interviewing and communication skills and obtain hands-on work experience related to one's major. Goals of the internship program are to strengthen students' employment opportunities in the marketplace after graduation and to provide greater insight into a student's selection of a career path and organizations suited to the student. CBA's close working relationship to the university's Career Services Office and to local and mainland business communities helps to connect students to prospective recruiters and job opportunities.

E-mail: marsha@cba.hawaii.edu
Web: www.cba.hawaii.edu/intern

International Study 

In addition to the study abroad programs offered through the UH Manoa Study Abroad Center (see the "Student Life" section for more information), the following CBA sponsored programs are available.

Industry in Asia: Field Study
Each summer, up to 25 business students have the opportunity to participate in a 5-week, 6 credit course (BEc 477) which includes three weeks in Asia. In Asia, the students visit companies, factories, economic agencies and government offices to learn more about organizational structure, government policies and international competition and their effect on these units. Classes are held on campus the week before and after the field study. Some CBA scholarships are available on a competitive basis to help defray the costs.

CBA Exchange Agreements with Foreign Universities
UH CBA students can apply to study abroad in connection with several official exchange agreements between the UH CBA and foreign universities. These universities are: Aarhus School of Business in Denmark; Chulalongkorn University in Thailand; Copenhagen Business School in Denmark; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Keio University (Keio Business School) in Japan; WHU Koblenz-Otto Besheim Graduate School of Management in Germany; Korea University CBA; Reims School of Management in France (summer only); Thammasat University in Thailand; and Yonsei University in Korea. In most cases, courses are offered in English for international students, language training is available, and the schools plan instructional excursions for visiting students. Tuition is waived for the students at the host university. Some scholarships assistance is available on a competitive basis to help defray travel costs. The student arranges his/her own travel and housing.

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