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CIMBA Italy (Consortium Institute of Management and Business Analysis) is astudy abroad program inItaly that offers study abroad and degrees for undergraduate,MBA, and Executive-level students.[1] Coursework focuses on American-style learning in business, leadership, journalism, communication, and engineering. CIMBA has a campus inPaderno del Grappa in theVeneto region of northernItaly.[2][3]
TheTippie College of Business, located at theUniversity of Iowa (UI) inIowa City, Iowa, USA, is the current degree and credit-granting institution for the program.[2][4]
CIMBA works with both the consortium member and non-member universities.[5] Thisconsortium, led by theUniversity of Iowa (UI), comprises more than thirty-fiveU.S. universities (allCarnegie Foundation research universities), who collectively provide support and guidance for CIMBA's academic programs. Students and faculty come primarily from these partner schools:
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In 1985, the Consortium of Universities for International Studies (CUIS) was formed as anon-profit organization with the goal of providing international experience to business professors. A few years later, the university consortium created the business institute called CIMBA. In 1991,Clemson University became the degree-granting institution and graduated the firstMBA class. In the mid-1990s, CUIS began its summer graduate study abroad program and created offerings for undergraduate students. CUIS began to offer study abroad programs for graduate students in 1997. In 1999, theUniversity of Kansas became the degree-granting university for CUIS. The following year, CUIS offered its first semester-long program for undergraduate students and then later began to offerjournalism and communication courses to undergraduate students. In 2008, TheUniversity of Iowa became the new credit-granting institution for CUIS, and CIMBA still offers courses through the UI'sTippie College of Business, College ofEngineering, and College ofLiberal Arts & Sciences. The classes offered by the program are taught by professors from the partner universities. The program has nearly 10,000 alumni living and working in 44 countries, including more than 1,200 MBA alumni.
CIMBA Italy offers undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs that are provided at the CIMBA residential campus inPaderno del Grappa. Courses are taught in English, and vary between semester and summer programs. The CIMBA study abroad and MBA programs are backed by the AACSB-accredited UI'sTippie College of Business.[6]
Undergraduate semester and summer programs are offered inPaderno del Grappa, Italy.
Most of the courses are targeted towards business students and emphasize current international events. CIMBA also offers courses in economics, journalism, communications, beginning Italian, music, engineering, and others.[7] Students can earn up to 18 semester hours for thesemester and summer session students can receive up to 6 semester hours.[8] Students are encouraged to participate in executive lectures and travel opportunities.
Graduate semester and summer programs, as well asexecutive education programs, are offered inPaderno del Grappa, Italy.
The CIMBAMBA program focuses onneuroscienceleadership research and is also accredited through UI'sTippie College of Business. Courses are taught in English by a variety of professors from across the United States and world with the goal of participants graduating in 1–2 years.
Established by CIMBA founder, Al Ringleb, the Leadership Institute is based on more than 25 years of scientific research in neuroscience and social psychology. Ringleb and CIMBA Executive Director Cristina Turchet joined forces with Kepner-Tregoe, a multinational company specializing in problem solving strategies, to create this science-based curriculum. CIMBA's program focuses on giving students, managers, executives, and up-and-coming leaders concrete steps to improve skills related todecision-making, problem solving, self and social awareness, self-regulation,management,consulting, and training.[9]
CIMBA offers a three-day, performance-based program that develops student's leadership skills by allowing them to practice in front of their peers. Through personal growth assessments, participants learn their strengths, and area of improvements as well as their working style with other peers.[10]
The institute's mission is to help people develop skills to turn ideas into practical innovations, to effectively manage and lead others to higher levels of performance, and to become more confident in their abilities to overcome the most demanding challenges. The Leadership Institute is instrumental in supporting CIMBA's educational philosophy which includes three pillars of learning:knowledge, rational process, and leadership behavior.[citation needed]
The CIMBA campus is based inPaderno del Grappa, in theVeneto region of NorthernItaly, at the base of Mount Grappa of theItalian Alps. The campus is located at the Istituti Filippin, an Italian boarding school, which is shared between the CIMBA program students and the Italian students. The Veneto region is home to a business community that boasts more than 450,000 companies.[11] CIMBA collaborates with the local businesses and the community. For example, companies in Italy'sentrepreneurialVeneto region (e.g.,Benetton,Nordica, andZanussi) work in partnership with CIMBA to provide MBA students with real-worldManagement consulting andSix Sigma projects.