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International Consortia
The Thunderbird International Consortia are partnership programs among globally-focused companies and Thunderbird. They enable participants to leverage the best practices of other leading multinational corporations and to globalize their thinking, behavior and strategies company-wide.
What Does Your Company Need to Thrive in Today's Global Economy?
Perhaps your company's greatest potential for growth is outside your home country. As a result, you're concerned about developing future leaders on a global scale, as well as instilling cross-cultural awareness among all your managers.
Or, maybe you're interested in generally broadening the skills of your management team-exposing them to functional business areas beyond their area of specialty, globalizing their business viewpoint beyond a regional focus, and helping them to solve specific internal strategic challenges.
Is it possible that your executives could simply benefit from a program that would help sharpen their individual management, people and leadership skills, through dynamic interaction with innovative faculty and peers from other multinational companies?
How Can Thunderbird Help?
For more than a decade, the Thunderbird International Consortia have provided a unique opportunity for cross-industry and cross-company debate, discussion and discovery. Our programs rise above other consortia offerings because they are global in every sense-from our faculty and program content, to our participants and their day-to-day business challenges. Their dynamic, interactive approach creates an environment of innovative thinking and education that is unparalleled anywhere in the world.
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1. Benefits Of Attending
How do member firms benefit?
- By sending waves of cross-functional teams to Thunderbird, firms have the unique opportunity to strengthen their global knowledge base, in turn accelerating positive change within the organization.
- By partnering with the School and other firms, members are able to globalize the thinking and behavior of their management cadre.
- Compared to the cost of other custom educational programs, TIC enables firms to combine resources to obtain international business expertise and education at significant savings.
- Member firms have the advantage of being associated with an internationally recognized institution experienced in running globally-focused consortia of this kind.
- Participants develop action plans that can be immediately applied to their jobs.
- A comprehensive evaluation process allows each firm to quantify its return on investment in the program.
How do participating managers benefit?
- Acquire a working knowledge of the global issues within their functional areas, their product divisions and their firms.
- Develop business plans and solutions to current job-related issues through an interactive learning process.
- Identify best practices, new ideas and global strategies from business leaders in other firms around the world.
- Attain new knowledge that can immediately be implemented on the job.
- Expand their insights by studying with the most geographically diverse group of participants in executive education, and learning from a select group of world-renowned Thunderbird faculty.
- Interact with Thunderbird students through various educational and cultural activities.
- Gain access to My Thunderbird, the School's exclusive online community, which offers a number of interactive resources for research, educational and networking opportunities for all Executive Education participants.
2. Participant Profile
TIC participants are chosen by individual member firms through an internal nominating process, though they share a number of common characteristics.
They are highly capable of playing a significant leadership role and are intellectually curious and committed to deepening their knowledge base. They possess strong English language ability and often a working knowledge of one or two other languages. All participants have a strong, sustained performance record within their member firms, and are recognized by their management as high-potential.
Participants represent most regions of the world, with approximately 50 percent of each class coming from outside the United States. They hold positions such as country manager, global marketing manager, business unit head, general manager, worldwide product manager, staff functional head, manager of regional support center, or vice president.
A sampling of participating companies includes:
- Fortune 500 companies
- S&P 500 companies
- Consumer products firms
- Automotive companies
- Technology and manufacturing businesses
- Pharmaceutical and health care conglomerates
- Petroleum, energy and utility companies
- And multinational corporations and subsidiaries in many other industries
3. Academic Director
Michael Moffett has been academic director for the consortia programs for the past nine years. He is responsible for the curriculum and content of the programs, including the organization of the faculty team. One of the first things Michael will always note about the TIC programs is the open learning environment – that participants not only find it stimulating and constructive to be in programs with people from many different companies and industries, but they are much more relaxed and open.
MICHAEL H. MOFFETT
Michael Moffett is a professor of Finance at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona. Dr. Moffett holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.S. in Resource Economics from Colorado State University, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. in International Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Prior to joining the faculty of Thunderbird, Dr. Moffett was Associate Professor of Finance at Oregon State University. Dr. Moffett has also served as Visiting Associate Professor of International Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and as a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland), the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (Norway), The International Center for Public Enterprises, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), the Aarhus School of Business (Denmark), the University of Colorado (USA), and the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA).
Dr. Moffett's research, teaching, and consulting interests focus on the financial management of the multinational firm, with specific interest in cash flow and capital requirements for effective strategy execution, the valuation of subsidiaries, the repatriation of profits from foreign affiliates, and the management of financial risk. He has acted as consultant to a variety of multinational firms in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Dr. Moffett has published articles in a variety of academic publications including the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Contemporary Policy Issues, Brookings Discussion Papers in International Economics, and others.
He is a contributor to a number of books, and co-author of three different books in international business, including International Business (7th edition) and Global Business (4th edition) with Michael Czinkota and Ilkka Ronkainen of Georgetown. His text, Multinational Business Finance, now in its 11th edition, and coauthored with Arthur Stonehill and David Eiteman, has been considered the market leader in its field for more than 20 years. Professor Moffett has authored more than 30 cases on a variety of topics in global business.
4. Contact Information
Pauline Gibson, Senior Director
Thunderbird School of Global Management
Executive Education
1 Global Place
Glendale, AZ 85306 USA
Phone:
1-602-978-7918 (outside the U.S.)
1-800-457-6980 (within the U.S.)
Fax:
1-602-439-4851 (outside the U.S.)
1-800-457-6982 (within the U.S.)