Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Stefanie Lenway, Dean and Opus Distinguished Chair in the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Professor Lenway is serving as the co-host of the annual meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB), June 25-28, 2018 in Minneapolis, USA. AIB has members in some 90 countries and more than a 1,000 academics are expected for the Minneapolis meeting of the best-of-the-best in international business and trade from around the globe.

The Academy of International Business is the leading association of scholars and specialists in the field of international business. Professor Lenway shares information about the meeting agenda, Minneapolis as a host city, and what unique features delegates will encounter (compared with recent annual meetings in Dubai, Bangalore, Vancouver, Istanbul, Washington, DC, and Nagoya).