{"id":143972,"date":"2017-10-11T08:44:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cobe.boisestate.edu\/?p=143972"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:54:47","slug":"nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cobe\/blog\/2017\/10\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Napier Receives Medal of Friendship from Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144012\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-image wp-image--caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2017\/10\/Napier_Nancy-Vietnam-Medal-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Napier Nancy receiving Vietnam Medal of Friendship\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"width: 200px\">Napier Nancy receiving Vietnam Medal of Friendship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Napier began working in Vietnam in 1994, when she taught at Hanoi-based National Economic University (NEU) in a program to \u201ctrain the trainers.\u201d The program was funded by a Swedish government agency to help the country move toward a market-oriented economy, under a Vietnamese government initiative called \u201cDoi Moi,\u201d while maintaining its dominant socialist government.<\/p>\n<p>Napier\u2019s first visit evolved into a nine-year, $8.5 million capacity building project managed by Boise State and funded by Sweden and USAID. The program trained Vietnamese university educators and business people, many of whom had been trained in Soviet-bloc countries, in market economics and western style business skills and practices. All of the participants in the three cohorts spent several months on campus in Boise and interned at numerous cooperating Boise-based companies and agencies. Ultimately all earned their MBAs from Boise State before commencing the next step in the program \u2014 developing and delivering their own MBA programs at the National Economics University. The program ultimately graduated 84 MBAs to graduates who now teach, do research and are in administration roles throughout the country. Several of the business people who graduated have started their own successful firms and work for foreign and Vietnamese companies. Some of the children of those graduates now attend Boise State, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Napier was awarded Vietnam\u2019s Medal of Friendship, approved by Vietnam\u2019s president, and conferred by the National Economics University\u2019s Rector Professor Tran Tho Dat. As Rector Dat said, \u201cI can count the number of foreigners who have received the Friendship Medal on my two hands. It is a big honor for Boise State University and Professor Napier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napier began working in Vietnam in 1994, when she taught at Hanoi-based National Economic University&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":412,"featured_media":144012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32347,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-cobe-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nancy Napier Receives Medal of Friendship from Vietnam - College of Business and Economics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cobe\/blog\/2017\/10\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nancy Napier Receives Medal of Friendship from Vietnam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Napier began working in Vietnam in 1994, when she taught at Hanoi-based National Economic University...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cobe\/blog\/2017\/10\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College of Business and Economics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-10-11T14:44:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-30T18:54:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2017\/10\/Napier_Nancy-Vietnam-Medal-200x200.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Allison Wilde\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Allison Wilde\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cobe\\\/blog\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cobe\\\/blog\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Allison Wilde\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cobe\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/55485112a38e2263c9959b3fdb4dfe4f\"},\"headline\":\"Nancy Napier Receives Medal of Friendship from Vietnam\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-10-11T14:44:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-30T18:54:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cobe\\\/blog\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":290,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cobe\\\/blog\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cobe\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/219\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/Napier_Nancy-Vietnam-Medal-200x200.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Archive\",\"COBE News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cobe\\\/blog\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cobe\\\/blog\\\/2017\\\/10\\\/nancy-napier-receives-medal-friendship-vietnam\\\/\",\"name\":\"Nancy Napier Receives Medal of Friendship from Vietnam - 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