AEA Teams With Thunderbird Institute to Offer International Management Program for High-Tech Execs

Business Wire, June 13, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2000

The American Electronics Association (AEA) has joined the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management to present a weeklong, graduate-level program on international strategy and management for high-tech executives.

The AEA/Thunderbird Global Management Institute was custom designed by Thunderbird and the 3,000-member AEA for senior executives with at least ten years of decision-making management experience and for alumni of the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute. The program will address the increasingly complex issues and problems created by an ever-evolving international marketplace, particularly for high-technology companies.

AEA President and CEO William T. Archey will be a special guest lecturer, covering AEA's new report, Cybernation 2.0: The U.S. High-Tech Industry and World Markets, in addition to international policy issues.

Archey said, "In this era of globalization, the new AEA/Thunderbird program will prepare executives -- and thereby better position their companies -- to address the challenges of the new business environment. With global commerce rapidly becoming the very lifeblood of many technology companies, it is vital that our executives understand the issues and problems and how best to solve them."

Areas covered by the new AEA/Thunderbird program include:

      --  Competencies of an effective global manager;
      --  Global finance and shareholder value;
      --  International acquisition and market entry;
      --  Global negotiating skills; and
      --  The Global International Economy.

Based in Glendale, Ariz., 54-year-old Thunderbird is the first school of business to focus exclusively on international management education. Thunderbird's programs are designed to help companies meet the dual challenges of global business and ethnic and cultural diversity.

The first AEA/Thunderbird Global Management Institute will be held September 10-15, 2000, at the school's campus in Glendale. Enrollment is limited to 40 executives. Cost for AEA members is $4,950; for non-members, $6,300, and includes tuition, room, board and all classroom materials.

For more information, contact Angela Pellegrino at 408/987-4276 or angela_pellegrino@aeanet.org

The American Electronics Association is the nation's largest high-tech trade group, representing more than 3,000 U.S.-based technology companies. Membership spans the industry product and service spectrum, from semiconductors and software to computers, Internet and telecommunications systems and services. With 17 regional U.S. councils and offices in Brussels, Tokyo and Beijing, AEA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. For 57 years, AEA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. technology community.