BBA NEWSLETTER MAY-AUG 2015 ISSUE

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UNIBE International Business School Contents FACULTY’S ACHIEVEMENTS….......................................................................................................3 Outstanding Professors…… .............................................................................................4 Professors’ Meeting..…… ................................................................................................5 BBA PROMOTION ACTIVITIES......................................................................................................6 FIU Info Session……………...............................................................................................7 WMU Info Session…………...............................................................................................9 Orientation Talk...…………..............................................................................................10 Farewell Reunion…………..............................................................................................11 Alumni Reunion..…………..............................................................................................12 BBA Graduation at UNIB................................................................................................13 EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING............................................................................................................14 Environmental Science Field Trip....................................................................................15 Economic Forum…………….….......................................................................................16 DGII Talk…….…………………….......................................................................................17 Cortes Hermanos…………………....................................................................................18 Singapore Talk..……………….…....................................................................................19 Doña Chucha…………….…....……………………………………………………..………..20 DICOEX Internship.……………….……………………………………………………..….…..22 MIREX Workshop……………….........................................................................................23 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES…………………………..…………………….....................................26 BBA Students at FIU..........................................................................................................25 Everglades Safari………………………………………………….........................................26 End of the Year Dinner……….………………………………….........................................27 End of the Year Survey…….…………………………………….........................................29 FIU Graduation…………………………………………………….........................................30

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Faculty’s Achievements

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Outstanding Professors Lic. Orlando Perez During our National Teacher’s day, UNIBE celebrated this day by recognizing 22 teachers including one of our BBA professors, Lic. Orlando Martinez. He has demonstrated dedication and commitment to training our future leaders during his years of uninterrupted teaching at UNIBE.

Dr. John Tsalikis Dr. Tsalikis, who is a founder BBA professor from FIU, received two teaching awards as the "best professor" for two of the Masters programs at FIU. In the Fall of 2014, he was voted best teacher by the students of the Corporate MBA and in the Spring of 2015 the same honor by the students of the MIB (Masters in International Business). We are very proud of having him as part of our BBA faculty members.

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Faculty Meeting At the beginning of the May – August 2015 semester our BBA teachers and office members held a meeting with the International Business School. The school introduced new teaching methods to our faculty so they can provided the best teaching experience to our students. The subject of this meeting was how to implement the discipline in the class by Prof. Sonia Molina and Prof. Cristina Ricart

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BBA PROMOTION ACTIVITIES

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FIU Info Session and Open House During the month of June we had the visit of Jennifer Hilton Moreno, Director of the International Affairs and Projects at FIU College of Business. During this meeting not only the students but also their parents learned about their future experience and the steps to take in order to go to FIU.

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WMU Info Session and Open House During the month of June we also had the visit of Karen L. Lancendorfer, Associated Professor of Marketing, the Director of the Promotion Program of WMU and President of the American Marketing Association2015-2016. Our students learned about their future experience and the steps to take in order to go to WMU. We also had a Q&A activity with current WMU students were our BBA students learn about campus and students life at WMU.

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Orientation Lecture with the 2017-2018 Promotion College experience is one of the most challenging steps when becoming an adult, that is why the International Business Department decided to host an orientation lecture for our most recent BBA students, the lecture was titled: Politics and Guidelines for an effective college career.

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Farewell Reunion Cohort 2015-2016

During the visit of the FIU Staff, the cohort 2015-2016 had their last meeting before tranfering to Miami. During this meeting both, students and their parents had the opportunity to had their questions answered.

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Alumni Reunion After graduating from our program, Our BBA Promotion of 2010 had an Alumni Reunion were they had the opportunity to remember their experience and get to know how their are doing in their professional life.

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BBA Students Graduation At UNIBE

During the month of July, two of our BBA students had their graduation. The now college graduates, Jose Baez and Mauricio de Moya had achieved one of the most challenging outcomes with successfull results. We are very proud of having them as part of our BBA Alumni.

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Experiential Learning

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Environmental Science Field Trip Our BBA students visited “La Cueva Fun Fun”, this visit was a requirement of their Environmental Science Class for this semester. The students visited the province of Hato Mayor where their learn about their Flora and Fauna while enjoying the amazing experience of getting into the cave and horse ridding.

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Inclusión Financiera Forum These are pictures of the activities undertaken during the “Foro de Inclusión Financiera para Familias en Situación de Pobreza” hosted by the Vice President’s Office and the Fundacion Capital. The students were representing their business school during the launch of the new program called “Ahorra con Solidaridad”

The new project is about helping underdeveloped families to learn how to save and how to have the opportunity of building a financial institution within their community or part of it.

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Dominican Tax System Talk by DGII

During their Applied Macroeconomics class the students had a Talk hosted by Mr. Ubaldo Trinidad from the Dominican Republic Internal Revenue Agency (DGII) regarding the Dominican Tax System. During this talk students learned how the Dominican Tax System works, the importance of paying taxes and where does that contribution goes.

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Cortes Hermanos’s Visit The International Business School (BBA) students went to visit the facilities at the Cortes Hermanos S.R.L. The visit was an outside campus experience for the class of Operational Management II. The visit was held by the Operation and Management professor, Hector Martinez, and our school director Erik Perez Vega.

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Singapore’s Economic Miracle talk For our Applied Macroeconomic class, our BBA students had the opportunity of had a talk about one of the most famous and successful economic miracles, Singapore. For this talk we had the presence of famous Dominican economists such as, Dr. Andres Dauhajre, hijo, Lic. Juan Guiliani Cury, Lic. Jorge Pineda and our BBA Director, Lic. Erik Perez.

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Donactions Activity BBA/Hodelpa

During this semester our BBA were part of the Learning by Serving activity by collecting and giving donations to the Hogar de Niñas Doña Chucha. We ask for donations such as backpacks, notebooks and school supplies, so the girls from Doña Chucha would have all they need for the upcoming school year. Our students had the opportunity not only to donate but also to participated in the activity were they give away all the donations.

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Hogar Doña Chucha’s Visit

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DICOEX Internship During this semester two of our BBA students had the pleasure of doing an internship at the Direccion de Comercio Exterior before transferring to FIU. Christian PeĂąa and Stephanie Mendez had the opportunity of work at DICOEX and present a final presentation about their experience and learnings.

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MIREX Workshop

One of our outstanding students, Juan Carlos Baez with the company of our School Director, had the opportunity of being part of the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriors recent forum “El servicio consular en el siglo XXI”. Mr. Baez had the opportunity of leanr about topics such as Passports, how documents are legalized, challenges of the consular service among others.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

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BBA STUDENTS 2014 International Student Ambassadors from the BBA

Members From UNIBE International Business (BBA) Program

Esther Fernandez, majoring in International Business & Marketing Giancarlo Abate, majoring in International Business & Finance Michael Haddad, majoring in International Business & Management Nicole Acosta, majoring in International Business & Marketing Bernard Teller, majoring in International Business & Finance 28 25 Â

Everglades Safari Airboat Tour Our BBA international students had the pleasure of visiting the Everglades National Park where their took an Airboat Tour at the U.S. National Reserve.

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End of The Year Celebration Dinner at MIAMI During the month of August our BBA Students cohort 2014-2015 had their End of The Year Celebration Dinner with their FIU Staff, teachers and the Visit of our School Director, Mr. Erik Perez.

During the meeting they enjoy their last time together and received their Year Book and some students award.

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End of The Year Celebration Diner at MIAMI

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End of The Year Survey

Unibe’s BBA students at FIU filled in a survey about the faculty quality, services and support system of the International Business School here at UNIBE.

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Cohort 2014-2015 FIU Graduation

During the month of August, our BBA students had their graduation at FIU. The now college graduates had the opportunity of majoring not only in International Business but also in Marketing and Finance. We are proudly and happy of have been part of this important event in their lives.

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Cohort 2014-2015 FIU Graduation

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