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Friday, May 1, 2009California students ‘do business’ in Jamaica
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GRAZIADIO IN THE NEWS
The graduate students from Pepperdine University make notes during a lecture on troubled inner-city areas. Also pictured are Morin Seymour (back left) and Cosma Earle (second, back left), chairman of Silver Sands.
With the United States economy currently re-sembling a popped balloon, a group of American business students from Pepperdine University in California are casually peering over the fence to see whether Jamaica’s businesses have any ideas worth nabbing.
The two dozen graduate students are in Jamaica on a one-week course titled ‘Doing Business in Developing Nations’.
The group is being led by Margaret Phillips, associate professor of international business at the university, who told The Gleaner that the aim of the course is “to expose students to a variety of different organisations and the issues that are addressed by developing nations”. [Full Article]
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