What is GICAME (Stanford) ?

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  1. manjuap

    manjuap New Member

  2. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    I could find nothing about this on the Stanford website, nor in my Epithetology book (that lists thousands of degree and credential titles). Deducing that it might have to do with ME, mechanical engineering, I left a phone message at the Stanford ME department, which closes early on Fridays.
     
  3. MarkIsrael@aol.com

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    The professors holding that credential seem to have more to do with management than with engineering (also, many of them seem to be from India, but that may be by chance). I would guess "Global Institute of Commerce and Management Economics", or something.
     
  4. MarkIsrael@aol.com

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    "GICAME" means "graduate of the ICAME Program at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University."

    "The International Center for the Advancement of Management Education (ICAME) was established at the Graduate School of Business under a $3,500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation in 1960. The purpose of the grant was to offer a flexible program of advanced training for faculty members from business schools in emerging countries and to make available a wide range of resources to meet the varying needs of the schools. The program as it was originally established provided fellowships to foreign professors of business for a nine-month program of study with emphasis on a different functional area each year. Its first course of study began June 1963. ICAME was the first school-within-a-school in the world where the students were faculty at foreign institutions."
    -- http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/history/international.html

    (Neither the general receptionist nor the registrar's receptionist at the Graduate School of Business had any idea what "GICAME" stood for. But one of the professors listing this credential answered my e-mail.)
     

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