News

 

  • GLAC is a Partner in the 2013 Women Leaders Brainstorm Challenge working with the Global Women’s Leadership Network and Innocentive to come up with ideas for the “Global Women’s Leadership Challenge:  5 million Women Change Agents in 5 years.” 

  • Professor Charles Dranagh of Indiana University will join us as a GLAC Scholar-in-Residence in Fall semester,  2013.

  • Colette Menzel, Director of CorraTech’s Project Management Office in Los Angeles has joined GLAC as a Global- Leader-In-Residence.

  • GLAC Professors Lester, Osland, and Wells are accompanying a group of ten MBA students and outstanding undergraduates to Leuphana University May 13-18 for a week-long course in international human resources.

  • GLAC staffed an exhibit table at the HR Symposium on May 2, 2013. 

  • Global Leaders-In-Residence Brad Maihack, Dave Wilde, and Colette Menzel critiqued the social innovation projects of Dr. Lester’s undergraduate global leadership course BUS165A on May 1, 2013.

  • Bobbi Makani, Director of GLAC’s Social Innovation Initiative, recently partnered with CTA and CISCO to have SJSU students work with CISCO engineers at a hackathon on April 26, 2013.

  • The Spring Gateway Global Leadership workshop was held April 20 and 27, 2012 for 15 new Passport students and Thompson Global Interns.

  • The 2013 Social Innovation Leadership Forum on April 5, 2013 was attended by 250 innovators and leaders and students from business, government, non-profits, and education.    The Forum was coordinated by Bobbi Makani, GLAC’s Social Innovation Director, and partners from HP, Catholic Charities, Social Enterprise Alliance – Bay Area Chapter, Global Green Village, San Jose State faculty, and hosted by Santa Clara County, thanks to Dave Cortese.

  • GLAC hosted an orientation and GLLab simulation experience for potential incoming students and their parents attending SJSU’s Spring Open House on March 13,2013.

  • An EMBA class from Athabasca University in Canada took part in a GLLab session entitled “Cross-Cultural Experience and Creativity” on March 6, 2013.

  • Japanese students from various universities who were part of a Saga delegation learned about global leadership in a GLLab session on March 8th. 

  • Eleven masters students from Leuphana University in Germany joined the MBA-One students for a week-long GLLab the end of February 2013.