2004 IWU Business Travel Seminars

Enterprise Risk Management considers all risks facing organizations (financial and operational) and the impact of their interdependency.  The interdisciplinary aspect of the liberal arts education fits in well with this holistic view of risk.  The travel component of this course will include 7 days in New York City, and a 7-day cruise from NYC to the pink sand beaches of Bermuda.  While in NYC, we will visit the most costly catastrophe in U.S. history, Ground Zero at the former World Trade Center site.  In addition, we will visit the heart of capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange.  Presentations by industry executives will be jointly arranged with St. Johns University.  A presentation by the risk manager responsible for cruise ship safety will be a class highlight while at sea.  while in Bermuda, we will dock at St. Georges Island and Hamiton.  Hamilton is the capital of Bermuda and headquarters for a wide variety of financial services firms, some of which we will visit.  We will also tour historical sites and discuss the notorious reputation of the Bermuda Triangle.

China Itinerary

This course will focus on the way business is done in the three distinct partitions of China.  The class will visit and study business systems in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China.  Taiwan separated from mainland China following WWII in 1945.  We will start the course in mainland China, where we will visit Beijing, Xian, Chongqing, and Shanghai.  Shanghai is the busniess center of China and Beijing is the seat of the government.  While on the mainland we will visit serveral businesses and attend lectures.  The trip will also include a visit via boat to the Three Gorges region of China, where the Three Gorge Dam project is currently under way.  The class will study the business ramifications of this mammoth project.  We will end the class in Hong Kong, which only a few years ago was still a British Colony.  Fortunately, China has allowed Hong Kong to continue the business policies begun under the British.

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