Office of Accounting Research    
Office for Banking Research    
Office of Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship    
Bureau of Economic & Business Research    
Center for Economic Education    
Center for Information Technology and E-Business Management    
Program in Health Economics, Management, & Policy    
Center for International Business Education & Research    
Office of International Strategic Management    
International Trade Center     
Office of Organizational Research    
Office of Real Estate Research

Research and Learning Centers at the University of Illinois are designed to address the needs of students, faculty, and practicing professionals by providing teaching, research, and service programs in a variety of fields. These programs are designed to afford learning opportunities for students, advance faculty research, and offer practical solutions to the problems of business and industry. The College of Business Office of Research currently operates twelve such centers.

Office of Accounting Research (OAR)
Paul Beck, Director

The office was founded in 1983 to coordinate, facilitate, and disseminate the results of research endeavors in the field of accounting. Its activities include two major symposia, a research forum and professional speaker series, and a lecture series.

Office for Banking Research (OBR)
Charles M. Kahn and George Pennacchi, Directors

The purpose of OBR is to raise awareness of research issues related to banking and financial institutions among academic researchers and professionals and to serve their needs through conferences, seminars, and publications.

Office of Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OBIE)
Huseyin Leblebici, Acting Director

OBIE was established to increase the understanding of the innovative and entrepreneurial process and to disseminate that knowledge to the business, educational and policy-making communities. OBIE accomplishes this goal through activities that fulfill three programmatic objectives: to encourage and conduct research, to promote curriculum development, and to provide public service in areas related to entrepreneurship.

Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR)
Greg R. Oldham, Director

BEBR is a research and service unit that serves the college, the university, and the citizens of the state through research, publications, grantsmanship, and outreach. Current projects include the production of the annual Illinois Statistical Abstract and the maintenance of the Illinois Econometric Model, which provides forecast statistics for various sectors of the state economy.

Center for Economic Education (CEE)
Fred M. Gottheil, Director

The purpose of the Center is to foster the teaching of economics at the elementary and secondary school levels in the state of Illinois. The Center engages each year in a variety of teacher training activities, including seminars, short courses, and evening courses directed at elementary and secondary school teachers.

Center for Information Technology and E-Business Management (CISTM)
Mike J. Shaw, Director

Established in 1997, the Center for Information Technology and E-Business Management is an interdisciplinary unit that fosters research and instruction on the use of information technology for effective electronic business. The Center draws upon faculty expertise from the College of Business, the College of Engineering, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Program in Health Economics, Management, and Policy (PHEMP)
Richard J. Arnould, Director, Professor Emeritus of Economics

PHEMP serves as an administrative unit that coordinates the development of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and service programs related to health economics and financing, health care management, policy, and evaluation. The goal of the program is to develop research agendas, identify faculty to teach courses in related subject matter, and promote the teaching and service programs which respond to the needs of the various constituencies involved in health care research and policy. PHEMP also serves as the coordinating unit of the Campus Health Initiative, a campuswide effort to develop and implement an interdisciplinary research and training agenda focusing on a broad array of issues related to health care.

Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
Joseph Cheng, Director

The purpose of CIBER is to promote the study of international business, foreign language, and culture within the college and in other units on campus, to provide international training for regional businesses operating internationally, and to foster research to improve the teaching and practice of international business. Its activities include course and curriculum development; interdisciplinary conferences, seminars, and workshops; faculty and student exchange programs and internships; short courses directed at business professionals; and outreach programs for other institutions in the state.

Office of International Strategic Management (OISM)
Greg Oldham, Acting Director

The office seeks to organize and energize the research efforts of faculty who are interested in strategic and global issues and in the processes of organizational decline and renewal in the face of major strategic change. Its programs and projects focus on the challenges facing management from globalization, industrial and national competitiveness, the transnational corporation, and the influence of technological change.

International Trade Center (ITC)
Tess Morrison, Director

The International Trade Center at the University of Illinois helps area businesses become involved in exporting and international trade through a variety of programs and services. Staffed by a full-time director, the ITC provides individual counseling to help firms assess their readiness to export, assistance with market research and business plan development, trade opportunity identification, access to a trade reference library, and training opportunities through regular seminars and workshops on the basics of exporting and doing business in various regions of the world. The ITC at the University of Illinois is one of five centers operated under the auspices of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.

Office of Organizational Research (OOR)
Greg Northcraft, Director

The purpose of this office is to facilitate and coordinate research on organizational practice by College faculty and doctoral students, as well as within a network of organizational scholars on campus. OOR's activities include an electronic bulletin board and email network, a speaker series, graduate student research support, and annual conferences and workshops.

Office of Real Estate Research (ORER)
Roger Cannaday, Acting Director

ORER has four primary goals: 1) the sponsorship of high quality research on all aspects of real estate, 2) the dissemination of the information generated by the sponsored research to real estate professionals and the general public, 3) the contribution of useful information to public policy debates regarding real estate issues, and 4) support for the real estate education program at the University of Illinois.

For more information about the Research and Learning Centers, contact the individual directors or the Office of Research at the address and telephone number listed below.

Professor Greg R. Oldham
Associate Dean Office of Research
College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
430 Wohlers Hall
1206 S. Sixth Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 333-2330
Fax: (217) 333-7410
E-mail: g-oldham@uiuc.edu