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March
2005 - “The study tour to
Florida was a truly
valuable experience. It gave us the opportunity to see for ourselves how the
business world really operates”, says Naila Cheema a Pakistani
student
 who
went on the study tour to
Florida.
Recently, 26 students from the
School of Business and
Management at the American University of Sharjah returned from study trip to
Florida. The students’ visit was spread across the two cities of
Miami
and Orlando. The tour was organized and supervised by Ms. Carol Houser,
Director of Community relations at the university. Through this trip the
students got a chance to learn about how international businesses operate.
Students attended professional seminars organized by international
corporations and interacted with officials at the companies to learn more
about how they operated. Through this interaction students also got a chance
to know about how strategies and tactics relevant to their own fields of
specialization were applied in the real business world. The organizations
that the students attended are General Motors, IBM, Caterpillar, Motorola,
Deloitte, FedEx, Royal Caribbean, Disney World and Universal Studios. The
trip wasn’t only about work, besides attending professional seminars at
Universal Studios and
Disney
Land, the
students also got a chance to spend a lot of time and have fun at these
destinations. The students attended a seminar at Disney World where they
dressed up in their native traditional costumes and got a chance to interact
with officials as well as employees at Disney who themselves were dressed up
in traditional native costumes. The interaction brought out something from
each student and it was a wonderful learning experience where students got
to learn about different cultures. |
