Center for Global Business Leadership

The Center for Global Business Leadership serves:

• Corporate executives, enterprise leaders, and directors
• "High potential" future executives
• Talent managers responsible for leadership development 
• Researchers

It is a center of activity for executive leadership, providing members and sponsors with:

• A base for executive leadership activities
• Resources for senior management team
• Resources for executive women leaders
• Resources for executives responsible for leading global business practices

Vision
The convergence of information technology and communications, coupled with dynamic global markets and rapidly changing consumer expectation, presents tremendous challenges and opportunities for the leaders of this generation. In response to this need, the Institute for International Business established the Center for Global Business Leadership to provide a highly collaborative research environment for faculty and students and to promote outreach programs in the international arena.

The vision of the Center is to be recognized throughout the international community as the premier source of knowledge on global business leadership issues. The Center intends to form an extensive network of business executives, government representatives and academics united in the purpose of tackling the challenges of the ever-changing international business environment

Mission
The mission of the Center is to conduct crucial research into industry-wide international business research issues, to provide executives and professional development programs, to produce publications to disseminate the knowledge gained through these efforts, and to attract, and retain, renown scholars in leadership with resources obtained through the Center.

Professional and executive programs will build on research and be developed to meet the needs of the international business community as they strive to stay abreast of cutting edge developments and best practices.

The Center represents a collaborative effort of research faculty throughout the Robinson College of Business in their respective disciplines.