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ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS - U.S. WESTERN REGION CHAPTER

2002 Chapter Activity Report



(By: "Ram" Sundaresan Ram, Chapter Chair)

First, I would like to send my best wishes to all my friends from around the world, who are fortunate enough to have made it to Puerto Rico. While enrollment remains fairly stable in the region, the primary issue has been to find sponsors for the regional conference on an annual basis. Towards this end, two options are being explored:
  1. Collaboration with other regional chapters to run a common conference - this would reduce the cost of sponsorship, and also prevent calendar "overload" for potential participants (who are being bombarded with multiple International Business conferences). If any of the chapter chairs present at this meeting are interested in mutual collaboration on this front, I would be happy to hear from them.
  2. Appointment of an office in the regional chapter for the primary purpose of creating and managing the conferences on an annual basis - in order to this, the bylaws of the chapter have to be modified, and then a formal nomination and election process (with member approval) needs to be conducted. I have obtained the mailing labels of the members from Laurel King, and am in the process of doing this.

Hope to meet with you all next year.
Best regards,
"Ram" Sundaresan Ram
AGSIM - Thunderbird, USA

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