Dolpy Abraham 11/14/05

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Title: Taking the Classroom Overseas

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Professor of Computer Information Systems Dolphy Abraham, Ph.D., changes the way students learn during the CMS course – a year-long program allowing MBA students to analyze companies in the classroom and abroad.

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In addition to his standard Information Systems classes, Professor Dolphy Abraham, Ph.D., puts a great deal of focus on the unique MBA course: Comparative Management Systems (CMS).

During the year-long program, teams of students analyze companies in the classroom and abroad. Last May his team visited Asia to examine IBM, Citibank, and smaller companies, while a future plan has the class trotting the globe to Europe.

Professor Abraham views CMS as a course with unlimited possibilities that compares how managers in different countries make decisions based on the factors particular to each locale. Each year CMS visits a different region of the world and the combination of countries visited provides a unique study experience for the students.

For Professor Abraham, the sharing of knowledge is also a major focus of his research. “When you start to take things that have been done internally and give these tasks to outside companies working in partnership, how do you begin to share that knowledge?” His answer is to develop new ideas and implement ways of bringing that knowledge back inside the company.

The main message Professor Abraham extends to his students is the importance of decision making and knowledge sharing. The CMS course allows students to not only learn this concept in the classroom, but to also see it at work in overseas companies.

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Dolpy Abraham 11/14/05