{"id":81537,"date":"2018-10-08T08:17:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=81537"},"modified":"2018-10-10T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:26:33","slug":"fireside-chat-october-8-2018-international-business-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2018\/10\/fireside-chat-october-8-2018-international-business-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; October 8, 2018 &#8211; International Business Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Lisa Cooley, an instructor of marketing in Delta State\u2019s College of Business and Aviation.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hxyY7LUELs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world of business today is truly global, and it revolves around fascinating numbers and percentages. Here are some impressive figures about Delta State\u2019s upcoming International Business Symposium:<\/p>\n<p>\u20228 international business experts spoke at the previous two symposia.<br \/>\n\u2022Delta State has been presenting an international business symposium for 14 years.<br \/>\n\u2022UPS profits rose 43 percent last year. The CEO and chairman of the world\u2019s largest package delivery company is Delta State\u2019s own David Abney. He and his wife, Sherry, established the symposium, and he returns to campus to deliver the keynote address.<br \/>\n\u2022Press-Seal Corp. manufactures 11,255 different products for sealing underground collections systems worldwide. CFO and Delta State alumnus Arian Maliqi, who earned a B.A. in business administration in 2010 and an MBA in 2011, will also speak at this year\u2019s symposium, among others.<\/p>\n<p>When our students graduate, they will enter a global marketplace and all its challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Delta State\u2019s International Business Symposium, taking place on October 11-12 in Jobe Hall, maintains a history of bringing notable speakers from the business world to campus, and this year is no different. They\u2019ll address the theme: \u201cThe Global Financial Market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other news on campus, Dr. Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA, will deliver the Colloquia Series address as part of Delta State\u2019s distinguished speakers lecture series on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Jobe Auditorium. And, Career Services is hosting their fall career fair on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Wyatt Gym.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Lisa Cooley, an instructor of marketing in Delta State\u2019s College of Business and Aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,296,108,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-3","category-facultystaff","category-president","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81619,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81537\/revisions\/81619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}