{"id":82353,"date":"2018-07-23T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T23:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=82353"},"modified":"2019-04-01T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T21:13:22","slug":"shidler-vemba-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/23\/shidler-vemba-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Shidler graduates 32 students from its Vietnam <abbr title=\"master of business administration\">MBA<\/abbr> program"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_82380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82380\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/manoa-shidler-vemba-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/manoa-shidler-vemba-2018.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/manoa-shidler-vemba-2018-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduates from the Vietnam <abbr>MBA<\/abbr> program in Ho Chi Minh City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Donning their caps and gowns, 32 students from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/vemba\">Shidler College of Business <abbr title=\"master of business administration\">MBA<\/abbr> for Executives in Vietnam<\/a> (<abbr>VEMBA<\/abbr>) received their diplomas during two separate commencement ceremonies near their respective campuses in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in July.<\/p>\n<p>The graduates celebrated the culmination of two years of hard work with a ceremony and a formal banquet with family, friends and faculty. Speakers included Shidler Professor and Vietnam <abbr>MBA<\/abbr> Program Director <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/directory\/tung-x-bui\/itm\"><strong>Tung Bui<\/strong><\/a>, Shidler Dean <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/about\/dean\"><strong>Vance Roley<\/strong><\/a>, President of Prospect Company, Ltd. Curtis Freeze and a representative from the U.S. Consulate General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Bui said, &ldquo;With the graduation of its 10th class in Ho Chi Minh City and 16th in Hanoi, the <abbr>VEMBA<\/abbr> program continues to address the needs of the national economy with courses focusing on continuous quality improvement of products and services, global branding and digital transformation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>More about the <abbr>VEMBA<\/abbr> program<\/h2>\n<p><abbr>VEMBA<\/abbr> is a rigorous and challenging two-year program for working professionals living and working in Vietnam. Since its establishment in 2001, <abbr>VEMBA<\/abbr> has played a major role in educating and preparing future business, community and government leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Today, many of the program\u2019s 650 alumni hold key positions in leading corporations and organizations throughout Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>VEMBA<\/abbr> program is taught by Shidler faculty and is the only <abbr>MBA<\/abbr> program in Vietnam that is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Shidler College of Business&#8217; 10th graduating class in Ho Chi Minh City and the 16th in Hanoi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[234,134,925,146,9],"class_list":["post-82353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-commencement","tag-international","tag-international-business","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93805,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82353\/revisions\/93805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}