2008 News Archive
12/15/2008
Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Singh received a Master’s of Science in Global Management to become the youngest student to graduate from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz. Two-...
11/21/2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management is expanding its existing partnership with Zayed University through a $284,000 grant from the Higher Education for Development (HED). HED works in close...
11/18/2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies have announced a new strategic collaboration in executive education. Through this new...
11/17/2008
For the second year in a row, a team of graduate students from Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies took the top prize of $20,000 and earned the title “...
11/06/2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management continues to expand its global learning network through partnerships with top business schools around the world, including a new partnership with Peking...
11/04/2008
Despite recent turmoil in the global financial market, Russia has become and will remain a prime location for investment and business opportunities. For those organizations wishing to successfully...
10/17/2008
Entrepreneurs who think of their business as their job have the wrong mindset and risk burnout, co-author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” Sharon Lechter told a group of Afghan women entrepreneurs Oct. 16 at...
10/15/2008
A grant from the United States Agency for International Development -USAID to the Business Development Center in Jordan, will fund a partnership with Thunderbird School of Global Management to offer...
10/13/2008
In an effort to build on and strengthen its economic impact in the Valley, Thunderbird School of Global Management is hosting a panel discussion aimed at helping local businesses and entrepreneurs...
10/08/2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management is pleased to announce four individuals with distinct backgrounds have been named to the school’s Board of Trustees. The four newest members of the board are...
09/28/2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management will celebrate the public launch of Campaign Thunderbird Oct. 1 with a community celebration on Thunderbird’s Glendale, Ariz., campus. The $65 million campaign...
09/19/2008
The deadline is approaching to register for Thunderbird School of Global Management’s second annual Sustainable Innovation Summit which draws top business school students from around the world for a...
09/18/2008
In an age of hyper-globalism and a waning economy, U.S. business must be surefooted in knowing how to engage with the rest of the world to maintain a competitive edge. In response, the nation’s top...
09/11/2008
Covering the policy manual during new employee orientation is nice, but Valley business executives said Sept. 11 at Thunderbird School of Global Management that workers need additional ethics...
09/10/2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management alumnus Philip T. Reeker, who graduated from the school in 1991, will be sworn in today as the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia in Washington.
Prior to his...
09/09/2008
Brain scanners don’t work as lie detectors. But new research from a Thunderbird professor and 15 co-authors shows that brain scans do reveal information about a person’s culture.
“Brain scans provide...
09/03/2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management has officially changed its address to 1 Global Place. The change reflects Thunderbird’s history as the world’s first and oldest graduate management school...
09/02/2008
The Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management is hosting a panel discussion on business ethics and honoring Thunderbird Trustee David Lincoln and his wife Joan for a $2.6 million pledge from...
08/27/2008
MyndSparc Enterprises, a new Valley-based enterprise, announced today it has taken residence at the Thunderbird Global Entrepreneurship Incubator (TGEI) at Thunderbird School of Global Management in...
08/20/2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management is preparing for its third annual Global Sustainable Innovation Summit that draws the brightest graduate-level students from top universities around the world...
