Center for International Business Education and Research

Established in 2010 and funded with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the University of Miami Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) promotes, increases, and strengthens U.S. competitiveness in today's growing and interconnected global economy by leveraging UM’s position as a hemispheric academic leader, and by supporting and funding International Business research, education and service programs for faculty nationwide, students in the Western Hemisphere, and Florida's business community.

Programs for Students, Faculty and the Community

Students

UM CIBER offers students a variety of programs aimed to improve competitiveness in the business world on a global scale. For example, undergraduate students can put their abilities to the test by competing in teams in the CIBER Case Challenge competition. Graduate students can travel abroad, solving real problems for real companies in Global Business Consulting projects. UM CIBER also offers short and long term study trips abroad and much more.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAMS

GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAMS
Faculty

UM CIBER offers faculty the opportunity to grow as researchers, educators, and practitioners of international business. Faculty members can attend lectures, conferences, seminars, and forums. Faculty are also provided the opportunity to apply for mini-grants to support their international business education and research.

FACULTY PROGRAMS
Community

UM CIBER offers the local community trainings and other services to promote international business within South Florida. We offer local businesses co-sponsorships to participate in the annual conferences, which bring together hundreds of industry professionals for networking and critical thinking on important IB issues.

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Co-Sponsored Programs and Events
- Mentoring and Outreach for Minority Serving Institutions
- NASBITE International Co-Sponsorship
- AUPHA Global Symposium
- Business Plan Competition Co-sponsorship
- Ethics Film Series Contribution
- Business Language Research and Teaching Grants (BLRT)
- Purdue CIBER Consortium
- ExEdu - Latam Healthcare Compliance Certificate Program
- IBECC – Business Ethic Programs
- COE – Diseno y Construccion de Sistemas FRP
- Focusing on Women in Finance Conference
- San Diego State University Case Competition

Innovators for the Americas

The Innovators for the Americas (IFTA) program is an undergraduate, experiential learning course focused on global entrepreneurship. The primary goal is for students to increase their global business, entrepreneurial, cross-cultural and cross-functional competencies through adviser-guided collaboration, participation in an international, student team and two weekend trips to a specific Latin American market. Each team develops, presents and defends a business plan addressing the specific needs of a Latin American market, leveraging the entrepreneurial and technological expertise of its members, as well as others with whom they network.

ALL STUDENT PROGRAMS

Innovate Miami

Innovate Miami is among the many programs UM CIBER offers to the community. This hands-on initiative challenges innovative high school students and University of Miami graduate students to create a social enterprise aimed at solving a social issue at home or abroad. Teams of students enroll in a business plan competition to solve issue by creating a company or organization (either for- or non-profit) that directly benefits a social group or solves a social issue. The social enterprises are then pitched to a committee. The goal of the program is to cultivate young social innovators and provide them with the knowledge and experience to change their community for the better.

MORE ON INNOVATE MIAMI AND OTHER COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Faculty Development in International Business

UM CIBER organizes an annual two-week faculty study trip, in cooperation with local University partners. The trip is open to faculty from the University of Miami and other local universities as well as universities across the U.S. UM CIBER supports at least one participant from UM and one from Miami Dade College each year. The study trips are led by the director of UM CIBER, Joseph Ganitsky (pictured right).

June 2017 Peru and Colombia Trip and all faculty programs