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Odyssey ch. 7 : communications with China

File contains correspondence for UWO's "China Project" involving MBA students from Tsinghua University in Beijing studying on exchange at Western and also a scholars-in-residence program at Tsinghua.

Description of London Foundation

File contains clippings, notes, correspondence and other records relating to the Craig Simpson celebrity classic in June 1989 in London, Ontario.

Miscellaneous correspondence "M"

File contains letters of the Centre for International Business Studies (University of Western Ontario), Kanchar and the Canada-Africa Business Advisory Group.

Business and the environment articles

File contains photocopied articles, several Ontario-Canada trade missions lists of mission members and their products, and an issue of the Canadian International Relations Chronicle.

Miscellaneous correspondence "S"

File contains letters concerning the Centre of International Business Studies (University of Western Ontario), Kanchar Inc., the Canada-Africa Business Advisory Group and letters addressed to Simpson's home address.

Don's diaries

File contains Simpson's journal entries about a 'management of sustainable development' course, plus Banff Centre memoranda, interview and speech transcripts (not Simpson's). File also includes a paper Simpson co-authored at AXIA called "The circle of learning : individual and group processes"; a Triple i paper on "The Learning Organization"; and brainstorming notes on transnational corporations and entrepreneurial leadership for globalization.

Contacts

File contains correspondence, business cards and brief biographies of Alberta government foreign agents.

Cultural wanderer

File consists of correspondence, notes, drafts and final reports, including "Reflections of a cultural wanderer" by Don Simpson and "Optimism in the seventies."

Triple i : speeches and publications

File includes Simpson's speech for the 5th annual mayor's luncheon on business and the arts in Edmonton; notes on the Banff Centre's involvement in nurturing a co-operative relationship between business and the arts; a booklet on the Fifth Corporate Communications Seminar of the Institute for International Business Communication (IIBC); a draft discussion paper on the learning organization; a speech from April 1992 on managing change and innovation in global economy, presented to PCL construction company in Edmonton; and a short overview of recent initiatives of the Banff Centre for Management in the area of environmental innovation.

Cross-cultural education lecture notes and other material

Series consists of records pertaining to Simpson's work in cross-cultural education from the 1970s to the early 1990s, predominantly at the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Education and the Centre for International Business Studies. The records include lecture notes, articles and readings, speeches, visual materials such as overhead transparencies, course syllabi, reports, teaching materials such as case studies and exercises, correspondence, clippings and student assignments. The subjects documented include teaching students of different cultures, First Nations thought systems and education, education in the developing world, and inter-cultural issues in international management. A number of subject files contain resources on ethnicity, I.Q., social class, compensatory education and language and their effect on learning and success. There are also a number of files inherited by Simpson, created by another professor at the UWO business school, Joseph J. DeStefano. Courses Simpson taught at the business school included "The culturally different child" and "Problems in cross-cultural management." He taught the latter course at UWO in the spring of 1989 and then in Germany at the Koblenz School of Business in the fall of 1989. The series also includes files from workshops Simpson ran in 1980 for CBC North managers following his report on "The use of radio and television for education purposes in the Canadian North -- what can be learned from the experiences of the Third World?"

Alberta roundtables and Towards 2000 Together : Red Deer - originals

File contains papers, presentation slides, a participant list and various executive summaries collected for the Red Deer roundtable on "creating competitive advantage through a knowledge-based economy." File also includes the proceedings and several company profiles from a 1990 national roundtable on labour-management cooperation.

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