AIM prepping business talent for emerging ASEAN economic bloc

By: 11 years ago

AIM President Stephen DeKrey with Acting Consul General Jaime Ramon Ascalon, an AIM alumnus, at the May 9 meeting-reception at the Philippine Center in San Francisco. INQUIRER.net PHOTO

SAN FRANCISCO, California – Asian Institute of Management President Steven DeKrey told alumni from the US West Coast May 9 at the Philippine Center that the institute is positioning itself as a gateway to the ASEAN, as the region prepares to become an economic bloc similar to the European Union.

“Business leadership in a single country is no longer relevant today,” DeKrey cautioned, “it has to be in a global context, leadership that has cross-cultural and social capabilities.”

That’s why AIM students study hundreds of cases, he said, “for whole brain development” to enable graduate to exercise adaptive and flexible business leadership across cultures and national conditions.

AIM’s proven “case method” helps prepare talent, he said, for the emerging Transpacific economic bloc “that will be a counter balance to China and India. “We have a class devoted to ASEAN,” DeKrey added.

The meeting was the first public gathering for the AIM Alumni Association on the West Coast and attended not only by alumni, but also by potential enrollees.

DeKrey noted that enrollees from the United States can now take advantage of the federal student loan program to be able to enroll at the institute.

The prestigious executive training institute was founded in 1968 by Harvard University Business School in partnership with De La Salle and Ateneo universities.