{"id":5533,"date":"2017-05-22T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:31:29","slug":"kbs-summer-school-2017-distinguished-guest-speakers-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2017\/05\/kbs-summer-school-2017-distinguished-guest-speakers-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"KBS Summer School 2017: Distinguished Guest Speakers Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">In June of this year, Kent Business School will host a Summer School programme on Global Business in a Dynamic Environment. This course is designed for those who want to gain insights into the core theories and activities involved in international business and the complexity of decision-making on a global scale.<\/p>\n<p>The high-quality postgraduate-level Summer School will run for two weeks from Sunday\u00a018 June \u2013 Sunday 2 July 2017 and is open to professionals or students considering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/courses\/msc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">postgraduate <\/a>study\u00a0or who simply wish to benefit from a short and intensive international study experience.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Business School is proud to announce that this year the Summer School will be taught by specialist academics and practitioners from across the world. This diverse expertise will support students in\u00a0expanding their professional, academic and social networks:<\/p>\n<h2>Professor Michael Czinkota<\/h2>\n<p>Michael Czinkota teaches international business and trade at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Business School<\/a> and at Georgetown University. He is also the chaired professor emeritus for international marketing at the University of Birmingham. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michaelczinkota\/\" target=\"_blank\">View Michael&#8217;s LinkedIn profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Dr Johannes Harl<\/h2>\n<p>Johannes Harl is CEO and Cofounder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalalgorithms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medal.org<\/a> Limited. He also serves as a Director of several service and technology companies. Dr. Harl is active in business development and private equity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/johannes-harl-972aa783\/\" target=\"_blank\">View Johannes&#8217; LinkedIn profile.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Professor Charles\u00a0Skuba<\/h2>\n<p>Charles J. Skuba is a professor of the practice in marketing and international business at Georgetown University. In 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2010, Skuba received the Professor of the Year Student Choice award from the McDonough School of Business Academic Council. Skuba specializes in international trade and international marketing strategy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/charles-skuba-4582194\/\" target=\"_blank\">View Charles&#8217; LinkedIn profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Professor Thomas Cooke<\/h2>\n<p>Professor Cooke specializes in the Legal Environment of Business and Federal Income Taxation. Professor Cooke\u2019s current research focuses on federal tax law changes, ethics and professional responsibility and tax practice and procedure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/thomas-cooke-63ab26b\/\" target=\"_blank\">View Thomas&#8217;s LinkedIn profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"btn-kent btn btn-block\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2017\/05\/guest-speakers-2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">View full academic bios<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Summer School has a credit transfer option and is equivalent to 10 credits (ECTS 5) for transfer purposes. Teaching formats will include lectures, seminars, and workshops, and students will be evaluated on a short piece of editorial, a series of case studies as well as their class participation.<\/p>\n<p>Studying at a Summer School at the University of Kent, ranked 23 out of 119 institutions in the UK\u00a0(<em>Guardian University Guide 2017<\/em>), you will benefit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/why\/\" target=\"_blank\">expert teaching<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/accommodation\/\" target=\"_blank\">on-campus accommodation<\/a> (in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/locations\/canterbury\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canterbury<\/a>), social activities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/locations\/canterbury\/\" target=\"_blank\">excellent resources and facilities<\/a> and an opportunity to enhance your career or progress to postgraduate study.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"btn-kent btn btn-block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/summerschools\/programmes\/business.html\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more &amp; register<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\" style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June of this year, Kent Business School will host a Summer School programme on Global Business in a Dynamic Environment. This course is designed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2017\/05\/kbs-summer-school-2017-distinguished-guest-speakers-announced\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40044,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118135,124],"tags":[174458,170331,10469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}