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Global Engagements & Research

Dr. Varela's work reflects active global engagements across key international trade and academic hubs. Learn about Cultural Intelligence and discover how this single factor and predict your success when conducting international business.

International Scope

Explore Dr. Varela's current and former cross border programming initiatives.

East West International Businesss

This program serves students from the Americas America and Asia in a residentlal envionment for 30 days during the summer term. Students engage, insitio, collaborate in cross cultural teams to produce something meaningful. Students experience a teaching team incudes Asian and American faculty, which provides them expereince taking direction from distinct leadership styles.

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence

In contrast to study abroad programs, this intitiative imports international faculty to help internationalize the curriculum, campus, and community for up to a full academic year.

Global Management Certificate

This program serves graduate students seeking a certificate in Global Management that incpoirporates courses in International Finance, HR, Management, Marketing and Strategy. Similar to the EW Business Program, this includes a tri cluster faculty team drawn from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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Cultural Intelligence

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Texts

Books

Articles / Cases

Strategy: Crafting and Executing Strategy, Thompson.

Human Resources: Human Resource Management, Mondy.

Business Communication: Business Communication, Guffey.

Global Negotiation: Negotiation, Lewicki.

Management Thought: Essentials of Management, Jones

Organizational Behavior: Organizational Behavior, Robbins / Judge.

Applied Management: Developing Management Skills, 6e, Whetten.

International Business Strategy: International Business, Hill.

International Marketing: International Marketing, Cateora, 2004.

Negotiation: Negotiation, Lewicki.

Internatonal Handbook of Intelligence: Sternberg, 1991.

Managing Cultural Differences: Moran, 2010