{"id":28315,"date":"2014-03-03T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=28315"},"modified":"2024-07-29T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:13:04","slug":"multicultural-dayton-riad-ajami-director-of-wright-states-center-for-global-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/03\/multicultural-dayton-riad-ajami-director-of-wright-states-center-for-global-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Dayton: Riad Ajami, director of Wright State\u2019s Center for Global Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/03\/multicultural-dayton-riad-ajami-director-of-wright-states-center-for-global-business\/riad-ajami-700x550-02-2-13\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28326\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/03\/Riad-Ajami-700x550-02-2-13-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Next to his numerous published works, and the many publications where he\u2019s been featured,\u00a0Riad Ajami\u00a0keeps a stack of books in his\u00a0Wright State University\u00a0office to remind him of home.<\/p>\n<p>Like his favorite author and poet,\u00a0Kahlil Gibran, Ajami was born in Lebanon but chose to make America his new home. Taking inspiration from his roots and those who came before him, Ajami has grown to be a well-known expert on international business. Now, as the director of the school\u2019s Center for Global Business, he\u2019s been featured heavily in business news as journalists and industry alike search for implications in an ever-more-connected global marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>While he thinks his office at the Raj Soin College of Business is slightly cluttered, it\u2019s also filled with heirlooms and work that remind him that the world is shrinking. He tells me that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the interview from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/news\/2014\/02\/28\/multicultural-dayton-riad-ajami.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton Business Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Next to his numerous published works, and the many publications where he\u2019s been featured,\u00a0Riad Ajami\u00a0keeps a stack of books in his\u00a0Wright State University\u00a0office to remind him of home. Like his favorite author and poet,\u00a0Kahlil Gibran, Ajami was born in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/03\/multicultural-dayton-riad-ajami-director-of-wright-states-center-for-global-business\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":28326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748,2023,4908,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-faculty","category-supply-chain-management-marketing-and-management","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28315"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152293,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28315\/revisions\/152293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}