Daniel C. Brenenstuhl, DBA, is the founder and primary force behind the International Business Seminars program. Dan received his DBA from Indiana University in 1975. While he was at Indiana working with his fellow doctoral students he developed the idea of having an international seminar where students in the business major could receive upper division credit while traveling overseas.

At the time there were no similar programs; and even today, there are relatively few such programs available. The idea was to design a seminar where students could be immersed in the international environment and meet with business leaders who could conduct seminar programs for them. These groups would travel anywhere from 10 to 30 days in the international environment and visit several different cities.

The first seminar program was planned in 1976 and offered in the summer of 1977. Since then, the IBS program has organized hundreds of seminars. Fifteen of these seminars were in Asia and two of the seminars were in Australia and New Zealand. The rest of the programs have all been in Europe. IBS has over 10,000 alumni who have participated in the seminar programs over the years.

International Business Seminars is a separate entity that organizes travel, hotel arrangements and other details of the seminars. Each university handles its own academic details, such as, granting of credit, charging tuition, etc.