XLII Annual CLADEA Meeting

The College of Business Administration
at Florida International University
invites you to the
XLII Annual CLADEA Meeting
October 28-31, 2007
Miami, Florida

Dear Colleagues:

As host for the 42nd Annual Conference of CLADEA, I would like to extend to all of you my warmest welcome to our city and to Florida International University.

We at the College of Business Administration are proud to serve once again as hosts for this very important event (the first time was in 1992), and we are delighted that all CLADEA schools decided to return to Miami, the sentimental and business capital of the region.

With the concurrence of CLADEA’s Executive Secretariat and Board of Directors, and responding to your comments at the Montpellier meeting last year, we are offering a different program this time, one we hope will be of great interest to deans, associate deans, program directors and faculty from our member institutions.

The program will be divided into three different sets of activities. First, there will be a number of academic sessions dealing with the conference’s main themes – “Human Capital, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Latin America’s Competitveness” –as well as with other traditional academic subjects. “Research” and “Workshop” sessions will alternate, providing different settings in which to discuss these issues. In addition, we have organized eight “Special Sessions” with invited panelists that will delve deeply into some of the issues that are the focus of the conference.

For deans and administrators, we have set aside ten panel sessions that respond to the specific preoccupations many of you have stated in your responses to a survey we distributed in 2006. These sessions will be staffed with senior administrators representing a wide selection of universities and business schools from Latin America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. We aim to learn from each other in these sessions and to explore solutions to the problems we all face in our schools today.

A set of “Institutional Sessions” also are planned, sessions in which member schools will be able to deal with questions of multilateral concern such as accreditation, partnerships with schools from other geographies, resource sharing, teaching materials, and so on.

Finally, we will have a number of “Plenary Sessions” with keynote speakers and CEOs from regional companies, as well as a panel bringing together some of CLADEA’s earliest members reflecting on the last forty years of the organization and what to expect in the years ahead. Of course, we also plan to have some fun, including a wonderful Gala Dinner at one of Miami’s iconic restaurants on the bay and side trips to museums, shopping center, and other places of interest for any accompanying spouses.

We remain optimistic that this will be one of our best meetings ever and would like to encourage all of you to come and join the discussion. It is your presence and participation that will make a huge difference in CLADEA’s 40th Anniversary Celebration.

Warm regards, and I look forward to welcoming you in person in October.

José R. de la Torre
Dean
Chapman Graduate School of Business