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Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business

Pacific Asian Management Institute

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

Pacific Business Center Program

Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management

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Special Professional Programs

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Studies Center

The APEC Studies Center was formed in July 1994 as a joint venture of UH Manoa and the East-West Center and is one of the founding members of the U.S. 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.

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (FIMA) Research Center

The FIMA Research Center conducts academic and policy research on financial markets in the Asia-Pacific region. It serves the securities and banking industries, academia, and government sector through four major programs:

The Asian Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (ASFRC) is a group of independent experts on economic policy issues relevant to financial markets and the financial industry of the Asia-Pacific region. ASFRC members are independent of any of the members’ affiliated institutions. The policy recommendations of ASFRC are its own. Typically, ASFRC tries to translate concepts drawn from academic literature into concrete policy recommendations.

The Pacific-Basin Finance Journal publishes the highest quality theoretical and empirical research on financial markets of the region.

The FIMA Financial Executive Program is intended for market regulators and financial executives to develop a better understanding of the financial markets in the region as well as in the developed economies in light of state-of-the-art finance theories.

The PACAP Databases Program creates, maintains, and distributes capital market databases of Asia, including China, Hong Kong (SAR), Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. The program is jointly undertaken by FIMA and the University of Rhode Island PACAP Research Center. The FIMA Research Center assumes a leadership role as the front office by acting as a liaison with participating financial institutions from the region. The PACAP Research Center, in turn, provides the back office function of maintaining, updating, and distributing the databases.

Center for Japanese Global 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 U.S., Hawai‘i, and Japan can receive mutual economic benefits through balanced investments in Hawai‘i. Many scholarships are available through the center.

The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

The UH CIBER goal is to promote international business research and development activities at UH. As one of 30 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 faculty and researchers from various disciplines across the Manoa campus and from the UH system, CIBER has promoted the creation of interdisciplinary courses, research and programs. Other activities supported include the innovative Field Study in Asia course, the annual PAMI Summer Program, faculty research projects on international business topics, studies abroad and overseas internships by students and travel support for faculty and doctoral students to present papers at national and international conferences. Outreach and executive education initiatives include working with various community organizations to sponsor workshops and other training activities.

Executive Education Center

The Executive Education Center is responsible for the Shidler College’s executive masters programs as well as custom and open-enrollment programs. Our programs develop the critical skills and leadership capacities of individuals, teams, and organizations to sustain a competitive advantage in a global economy.

Executive Accounting Program is especially designed to prepare individuals to enter the accounting profession who do not yet have the necessary academic background. This intensive 24-credit six-month program will enable participants to gain a solid accounting foundation and have the necessary accounting credits to sit for the CPA examination.

We design and deliver custom programs to support organizations in achieving their strategic goals. Our open-enrollment programs are offered to flexibly serve individuals and organizations seeking breakthrough learning opportunities. For more information, or to speak with an executive education staff member, please e-mail execed@hawaii.edu or call (808) 956-8135.

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 UH’s Shidler College of Business. 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.

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.

Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business (PACE)

The goal of PACE is to foster the entrepreneurial spirit among students, faculty and the community. The center supports the inclusion of entrepreneurship-related courses in the UH curriculum and offers a summer certificate in international entrepreneurship. In addition, PACE also supports the student Entrepreneurship Club and numerous outreach programs, including statewide business plan competitions at the high school and college levels, the Kauffman Entrepreneurial Internship Program, a distinguished lecture series, the Hawai‘i Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, and programs for Native Hawaiian entrepreneurs.

Pacific Asian Management Institute (PAMI)

PAMI was established in 1977 as an institute of international management education and research bridging the East and the West. Students, faculty, 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. It also coordinates special short-term programs for visiting academics and executives interested in international business issues and topics.

For a modest fee in addition to the summer course tuition, two certificate programs—in International Management and International Entrepreneurship—are offered by PAMI during the UH Outreach College Summer Sessions. The curriculum features traditional (classroom-based) and online international business courses in management, marketing, finance, business economics, entrepreneurship and human resource management and taught by faculty from UH and from some of the best business schools in the U.S. and around the world. The programs are open to undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline, to Americans and foreigners, who are admitted by the UH Summer Session Office.

The Pacific Asian Lecture Series (PALS), open to the public, is part of the PAMI summer program, as are occasional field trips and site visits. The highlight of PAMI’s summer is the annual N.H. Paul Chung Luncheon and Lecture, held in honor of PAMI’s founder and features a renowned international business speaker.

PAMI is the secretariat for the Pacific Asian Consortium on International Business Education and Research (PACIBER), with 33 member universities in the U.S., Canada, Asia and Oceania.

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 UH Shidler College of Business. 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 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 UH Manoa and the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, provides businesses, government agencies, and community groups, a variety of business consultant services at moderate 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.

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.

Career Development & Internships

The Career Development & Internship Office at Shidler College of Business provides career-related internships to gain real world experience while earning academic credits. Through the internship program, students strengthen their employment opportunities in the marketplace after graduation and gain greater insight into the selection of a career path, and network with professionals in their chosen field.

The Career Development Office provides extensive on-campus interview programs, career fairs, and workshops. The office is dedicated to assisting students in their career growth and development and to helping employers identify and select highly qualified candidates. A broad range of services are offered to enhance our students’ employment marketability. From career search and information sources to skills development workshops, we seek to educate, train and advise our students to ensure successful preparation for entry in the business job market, and assist students in making the right career decisions.

The office maintains a business and alumni network that provides a link between recruiters and students, to maximize the potential for successful internship and permanent job placement.

For more information on the Internship Program, contact Rick Varley at rvarley@hawaii.edu or (808) 956-6972. For more information on the Career Development Office, contact Toni Kruse at Toni.Kruse@hawaii.edu or (808) 956-9330, or go to the web at career.shidler.hawaii.edu/.

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 Shidler College 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 (BUS 477/677) 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 Shidler College scholarships are available on a competitive basis to help defray the costs.

Shidler College Exchange Agreements with Foreign Universities

UH Shidler College students can apply to study abroad in connection with several official exchange agreements between the UH Shidler College and foreign universities. These universities are: Aarhus School of Business in Denmark; Chulalongkorn University in Thailand; Copenhagen Business School in Denmark; Hitotsubashi University in Japan; 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 School of Business; Reims School of Management in France (summer only); National Sun Yat Sen University in Taiwan; National University of Singapore; Seoul National University in Korea; Thammasat University in Thailand; Waseda University in Japan; 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 scholarship assistance is available on a competitive basis to help defray travel costs. The student arranges his/her own travel and housing. For more information, contact the Office of Student Academic Services in BusAd B-101 or at (808) 956-8215.