And they have built foundations of knowledge for doing business in emerging markets. The power of knowledge is harnessed when research is translated into understandable forms and then made accessible to users of that information, whether students, practitioners or other scholars. It has the greatest chance to have impact when faculty are sufficiently open to learn from their students as well. Our executive education programs bring together faculty and industry leaders for dynamic learning experiences where new approaches are created and exchanged. The college's business partnership centers work directly with companies to solve current problems and issues.
Faculty incorporate their research into the undergraduate and graduate experience as well.
Finally, as you will read in this annual report, faculty are delivering knowledge to students in new ways, as they make use of web-based instructional tools, videoconferencing capabilities and other technologies integrated into our new facilities. As you read through this year's annual report I hope you will be impressed and intrigued not only with the depth and diversity of Fisher faculty research, but also with the breadth and significance of their contributions.