News Release
Moore School Prof. William R. Folks Honored by AIB, Alumni
For immediate release:
July 7, 2008
Columbia, SC
Moore School Prof. William R. Folks Honored by AIB, Alumni
Dr. William R. ("Randy") Folks, Jr., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of
International Business at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business, has been
named the AIB Fellows’ 2008 International Educator of the Year. The Academy of International
Business (AIB) is the leading association of scholars and specialists in the field of international
business.
Folks received the award, which recognizes his "extraordinary contributions to international business," at the AIB’s annual conference in Milan, Italy, in early July. (More details are available at http://mooreschool.sc.edu.)
Folks also has been honored with a $250,000 fellowship created in his name and presented by the MIBS Class of 1977. (MIBS is the acronym for the Master of International Business Studies program at the Moore School, now called the International MBA program.) Folks was one of the original architects of the program -- which has been ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the country in the international business specialty by U.S. News & World Report for the past 19 years.
The MIBS ’77 class was the second entering class of MIBS students.
Folks is currently Executive Director of the school’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and is the co-developer and director of the school’s Undergraduate International Business Major.
Folks has taught at USC since 1969. His primary area of teaching and research has been International Finance. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Harvard College and his doctorate from the Harvard Business School.