About FBD

— 30 Years of Successful Quality Meetings

Federation of Business Disciplines is a successful nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization. It was founded in 1973 and held its first meeting in 1974. FBD developed into one to the largest, most prestigious annual meetings for those disciplines common to business administration and has both national and international constituencies of more than 1,000 college professors from schools of businesses attending its annual meetings.

FBD presently includes 10 professional associations that focus on the promotion and improvement of research and educational activities of schools and colleges of businesses.

These associations have joined together to form a federation designed to:

• Provide and coordinate an annual meeting for association members.
• Present a common general program in which all association members will participate together.
• Provide a forum through its annual meeting to discuss and exchange ideas and to present formal research papers.
• Foster professional growth and enrichment for members of each association.
• Provide information which can be used to improve classroom instruction, research and academic or business development.
• Recognize outstanding papers presented at the meeting through its sponsored distinguished paper award.
• Recognize outstanding educators of the year.
• Provide a placement service for academic positions.

As a major force of business administration educators and after 30 years of success, FBD continues to provide outstanding programs to its professional constituencies. In that time more than 50,000 individuals have attended and benefited from its meetings.