Research Initiatives

Developing business leaders with a global mindset

Research Sponsored by the Ahlers Center:

The Ahlers Center for International Business and AES Corporation teamed up to sponsor a Utilities at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) Research Workshop on May 2, 2008. This workshop explored the challenges of utility services for emerging BOP business models and improved academic research on the BOP. For more information about this project, click here.

Journal Sponsorship:

The Latin American Business Review (LABR) is a refereed journal, published four times a year, which facilitates the exchange of information and new ideas between the academic, business practitioner, public policy maker, and those in the international development community. Special features of the journal keep readers current on various teaching, research, and informational sources. These activities all focus on the business and economic environment of the diverse and dynamic countries encompassing the Americas.

The Latin American Business Review (LABR) is a joint publication by the School of Business Administration at USD, the Graduate School of Business (COPPEAD) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey and is sponsored by the Ahlers Center for International Business.

Latin America Best Teaching Case Award

Since 1996 the Ahlers Center for International Business, jointly with EGADE/ITESM (Mexico), has endowed an award for the best teaching case presented at the Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS) annual meeting.

International Research Activities

The Ahlers Center for International Business sponsors international research activities and travel for USD faculty and students.

The Ahlers Center for International Business sponsored a research project and workshop on "The Trade Regionalism of the US and the EU: Cooperative or Competitive Strategies?" The focus of the research project and workshop was to contrast and compare the regional trade strategies of the European Union and the United States with regards to Asia, Latin American and the Middle East and Africa. As multilateral trade negotiations have slowed, the EU and the US have developed more bilateral and regional agreements. Are these strategies conflicting or complementary? Researchers from four continents came together to discuss the current trends, outcomes, motivations for recent trade agreements and the impact of this competitive and overlapping regionalism of the US and EU on the future development of the multilateral trading system.

The workshop included the following participants:

Vinod Aggarwal, University of California, Berkeley
Irene Caratelli, University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’ and Institute for Foreign Affairs, Rome
Bev Crawford, University of California, Berkeley
Denise Dimon, University of San Diego
Richard Feinberg, University of California, San Diego
Paolo Guerrieri, University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’ and Institute for Foreign Affairs, Rome
Mohamed Lahouel, University of Tunis, Tunisia
John Ravenhill, Australian National University
Jeffrey Schott, Institute for International Economics, Washington

The results of the project were published in The International Trade Journal (2006, Vol. 20, No. 2)

The Trade Regionalism of the United States and the European Union: Cooperative or Competitive Strategies? By: Guerrieri, Paolo; Dimon, Denise.

Free Trade Agreements and US Trade Policy: A Comparative Analysis of US Initiatives in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific Region, and the Middle East and North Africa. By: Schott, Jeffrey

EU's Regional Trade Strategy, the Challenges Ahead. By: Guerrieri, Paolo; Caratelli, Irene.

EU and US Regionalism: The Case of Latin America. By: Dimon, Denise.

US and EU Regionalism: The Case of the Western Pacific Rim. By: Ravenhill, John.