Dr. Anna Helm, an Assistant Teaching Professor of International Business at GW, the Faculty Director of GW's Center for International Business Education & Research (GW-CIBER), and a Nashman Affiliate Faculty member, highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Through the integration of international business case studies, international perspectives, and human development research, Dr. Helm unites interdisciplinary approaches to promote inclusive business practices and to deepen students’ cross-cultural understandings. 
Recently, Dr. Helm published Real-client projects in the LSP classroom: Business and German students teamworking across disciplines in the journal of Global Business Languages. Scholars find, “project outcomes demonstrate the ways in which the real-client project allowed students to apply content knowledge and skills from their respective fields, while supporting peer-to-peer learning within a disciplinarily diverse team in a professional setting” (Gonglewski & Helm, p. 110, 2020).
While Dr. Helm’s previous publications, An Examination of Business Case Methodology: Pedagogical Synergies from Two Disciplines and Sustainability Pedagogies for the Business Language Classroom, also in the journal of Global Business Languages, focus on interdisciplinary approaches and sustainable pedagogical methods, her most recent publication furthers her previous findings.
Dr. Helm’s “devotion to teaching, student-centered learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration has resulted in numerous teaching awards, including the 2019 inaugural GW School of Business Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.” Dr. Helm's courses focus on international marketing management, green business, the cultural environment of international business, and foreign market analysis. Read a recent GW Today article about Dr. Helm and how she’s adapted her course format to engage students internationally.
In addition, Dr. Helm serves as the Principal Investigator for a Liberal Arts and the Professions grant from the Teagle Foundation, titled An Internationalized Liberal Arts Curriculum for Undergraduate Students, which aims to further "integrate liberal arts into GWSB’s undergraduate curriculum." For more information about Dr. Helm’s work with and at GW, click here. To learn more about Dr. Helm’s previous, current, and future research, click here.
We are honored to have Dr. Helm serve as a Nashman Affiliate. To learn more about how the Nashman Center supports community engaged faculty, click here. If you would like more information on getting your Community Engaged Scholarship course designated, click here.
