October, 2008

I am really pleased and proud to announce the CSIM has become the California International Business University, with our new webpage: www.cibu.edu.

Why the change? We have grown up! Approaching our fifteenth year, students from 70 countries and counting, degrees at three levels (Bachelors, Masters, Doctoral), reaching depth of study and breadth of content. “ib” (international business) is the center of our name and the heart of the global economy, for which we prepare our students. We are one of America’s specialized universities, ever global in our reach and representative in our student body….located in one of the greatest places students could study….Southern California…San Diego!

Some FAQ’s au courant:

The global and US economy are intertwined and have soured. Should this be a reason to consider getting an MBA? My answer: There is more reason than ever to get the MBA degree today. The world needs increasingly astute business leaders….culturally experienced. Do not take the current market failures as a bad omen, but rather as a challenge to be one of the heroes who make good things happen in the world economy.

Business schools, a bad name? There are some, as I know from my personal experience, which are teaching and promoting the wrong stuff….degrees as cheap and fast as possible…couch-MBA orientation…wealth orientation…a test of a business school is the ratio of entrepreneurs to Wall Street and banking types that come out of its programs.

Business schools to take the hit in this economy? ….watch the big name schools, who produces the problem-leaders who disappoint, and unfolding scandals about the prestige-price ratios…

What is the biggest, baddest sign out there?…ego, reinforced by credentials, extrapolated by wealth and fame….a self-spiraling hubris that can make for a huge questioning of large versus small, famous versus modest, rich versus barely surviving. The entrepreneurs seem to be our big hope, not the Wall Streeters! And CIBU – small, holding on to the value of modesty, surviving well but far from rich, and promoting the entrepreneurial spirit that will guide the world in coming decades – intends to be a distinctive contributor to that hope!

Dr. Michael McManus

President