<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="gmail-x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px;font-family:&quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Submission date approaching soon (June 10^{th<span class="gmail-x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span>}2021)</span></b></p><p class="gmail-x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:&quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px;font-family:&quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Global Conference on Innovations in Management</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:&quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span>(<a href="https://www.gcimb.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.gcimb.org/</a>)</span></p><p class="gmail-x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:&quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:&quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Chapman University, CA, Howard University, Washington, D.C. and National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India are jointly organizing the Global Conference on Innovations in Management and Business during July 26-28, 2021 (including preconference workshops).<span class="gmail-x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:&quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;,serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Symbol;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">·<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:7pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:&quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;,serif;vertica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