Ahmed Rachdi, Continuing Lecturer

Photo of Ahmed Rachdi My name is Ahmed Rachdi (pronounced rash-dee) and I have been teaching in the IPFW Richard T. Doermer School of Business since 2005. I taught undergraduate and graduate level marketing, management, and statistics courses for five years at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. (AUI is an American style university where the language of instruction is English. http://www.aui.ma) I have twenty years of management experience and an MSBA from San Francisco State University. For further details about my background please feel free to read my vita at the Doermer School of Business web site.

On this web page I highlight some of the courses that I teach at IPFW.


BUS D490 S BUS W100 Principles of Business Administration (online and F2F)
BUS M426 Sales Management
BUS M301 Introduction to Marketing Management

D490 Special Study in International Business
BUS W100 Principles of Business Administration (online and F2F)
BUS M426 Sales Management
BUS M301 Introduction to Marketing Management






Moulay Isamail Meknes

Tour Hassan

BUS D490 Special Study in International Business

In March 2013 fifteen IPFW business students and two faculty members accompanied me to Morocco working on behalf of two northeast Indiana companies, Annie Oakley Perfumery and Ofabz Swimwear

For an illustrated overview of our trip see this IPFW press release from April 10, 2013.

Josh thoroughly documented our trip and created this extensive Flickr gallery of all of the beatufiul places we visited and the wonderful welcoming people we met.



Here is our itinerary.

DAY 1

Tour the campus of Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

Dr. Ahmed Driouchi, Presentation on Economics              

Dr. Abdellah Benlamhidi, Presentation on Moroccan Commercial Laws

Meeting with AUI Marketing Research students


Dinner with students

DAY 2

Presentation on Moroccan and Islamic Culture

Couscous Lunch

DAY 3

Breakfast in Ifrane and travel to Meknes

Filali Abdellatif, Director of English Highway language center, Presentation on International Relations     

Visit Moulay Ismail Mausoleum in Meknes

Visit of historical Qara Prison in Meknes

Lunch                                                                   

Visit of historical Volubilis near Meknes

Dinner                                                                 

Return to Ifrane

DAY 4

Breakfast in Ifrane, then Travel to Fes

Visit Old Medina of Fes

Lunch                   

Continue visit to Old Medina

Couscous Dinner and Return to Ifrane

DAY 5

Breakfast and leave for Casablanca (Dar Beida)

Visit Old Medina “Houbous”

Dinner at Rick’s Cafe

DAY 6

Breakfast                                                                            

Coca Cola - Morocco      

Meeting with Ms. Rabia Al Alama, Director of Amcham

Lunch                                                                                   

Unilever  presentation + site visit                                            

Dinner                                                                 

DAY 7

Procter & Gamble presentation

Visit Bourse de Casablanca (Moroccan stock market)

DAY 8

Shopping in Artisanat du Maroc

DAY 9

Breakfast                                            

Hassan II Mosque Visit

Lunch                                                   

Free time

Dinner

DAY 10

Shopping/sightseeing                                                   

Departure