May Term 2012

I think we got a pretty good feel today of what it’s like to conduct business internationally.  Our wake up call was at 4 am, so that we could be on the bus by 5 am to be at the airport at 6 am to take the 2 ½ hour flight to Bangalore to take … Continue reading »

I had always wondered why I seemed to know more about Muslim or British India than Hindu India, and today provided a good answer based on my trips to India, 2 of which had been exclusively to New Delhi; the answer was provided by the Qutub Minar, a major symbol of the city.  This 180+ … Continue reading »

I think digital cameras were made for days like today, days when you would never have had enough rolls of film to capture the great sites of the world—and we saw three today, all associated with the Moghul dynasty, seven rulers that brought much of India, especially northern India, under the rule of this Persian-based … Continue reading »

If you want to go skiing in the mountains, I’ve always felt, or be at the beach the same day, move to Los Angeles. India offers not only the chance to travel high (the Himalayas) or in the Ocean, but also backward or forward in time.  Today we were somewhere this side of 1500 and … Continue reading »

While it seems as though we’ve been in New Delhi since the beginning of time, I think that impression might come from having arrived this morning around 1 am, following an 8 hour flight to London that gained  6 hours on the clock, a less than 3 hour layover at Heathrow Airport in London (where, … Continue reading »

Associate Professor of Business Administration Fred Hoyt lead a May Term Travel Course, The Elephant and the Dragon: The Two Asian Economic Juggernauts, taking students to India and China for a first-hand look at the economies that are transforming the global economy.