Keri Jacobs, associate professor and Iowa Institute for Cooperatives Endowed Economics Professor, led a training workshop on April 16 on the cooperative business model for ISU faculty who will teach in the Ivy College of Business executive MBA program (Ivy EMBA).
The Ivy EMBA focuses on food, agriculture, and biosystems, and among their enrolled are up-and-coming executives from agriculture cooperatives in the Midwest and nationally. Jacobs’ objective for the workshop was to bring greater awareness to faculty teaching in the Ivy EMBA about the uniqueness of co-op businesses as they relate to the topics explored in their courses, such as the economic role of co-ops, governance, risk management, finance, capitalization, corporate strategy, supply chain management, and taxation.
Jacobs is pleased that the Ivy EMBA curriculum may include some advanced treatment on the role, functioning and scope of cooperatives in agricultural industries and hopes through this and further collaborations that the executive program will contribute to the success of cooperative businesses.