Rules and Regulations
The Daisy International Prize is open to all students enrolled in a graduate degree program at Brandeis International Business School for the 2011-2012 academic year. This includes BA/MA students (1st years are eligible), MSF, MAief, MBA, and Ph.D. candidates. Exchange students, Undergraduates and graduate students enrolled in other Brandeis University programs are not eligible to enter the competition. Students with training on trade and global financial issues are strongly encouraged to submit an essay.
Students must submit an essay no longer than 2,000 words. Essays will be judged on engagement with the substance of the question; the analytic, empirical and factual content of their arguments; and writing quality.
The essay question is as follows:
What are the benefits and costs to the average person in your country and/or region of the world from:
i) globalization of trade in goods and (non-financial) services, and
ii) globalization of financial markets?
Are these benefits different from the benefits/costs derived from trade and financial activities before “globalization”? Where individuals can be potentially harmed by either of these types of globalization, is there any role for policy to ameliorate such negative effects? Have, in fact, any policies been adopted, successfully, to provide such assistance in your country/region of the world?
There of course are no “right” answers for this question. Students come from different countries/regions and will have different circumstances to describe, analyze and write about.
A good essay should have some empirical content. Do you have quantitative measures of the effects of globalization? how can benefits/costs be measured?
As you will know, many have reservations about “globalization”. There have been some downsides as well as upsides. Any accounting of the effects of globalization ought to consider the costs as well as the benefits.
A committee drawn from Brandeis International Business School faculty and senior administrators will read submitted essays and determine first, second and third prize winners. Award amounts are
$3,000 for 1st place
$2,000 for 2nd place
$1,000 for 3rd place
Students may submit essays anytime
up to midnight January 16, 2012 (the day before classes resume for the Spring semester). Essays must be submitted in .doc format to
ibsdev@brandeis.edu. Essays will be judged anonymously; thus students are asked to include their name in an email submission, but make no mention of their name in the attached essay itself. A “reply” acknowledgement email will be sent within 48 hours after an entry is received. If you do not receive an acknowledgement, assume there has been a transmission/reception problem and follow up.
The top three essay winners will be asked to present their papers at a reception open to the Brandeis International Business School community. The anticipated date of the reception will be in late January or early February 2012.
Any questions regarding the prize competition should be emailed to
ibsdev@brandeis.edu.
The Daisy International Prize is supported by Bert and Sandra Shea '56 Fisher. Sandra is a member of the 5th class of Brandeis University, and obtained her B.A. in Music. She was an avid singer and has performed all over the world. Bert worked overseas in Venezuela for 10 years, before settling in the Washington DC area. They now split their time between DC and Florida, and have three children, two of whom attended Brandeis University. The Daisy International Prize is named in memory of Sandra's mother, Daisy Shea.
