Passion, when channeled correctly, can create a powerful strategic advantage. When a company’s people are all focused on one mission, one purpose, they become passionate and engaged about it. However, in order to truly leverage the passion of your people, you must make sure your strategy is well-defined. Verne Harnish, probably the world’s leading expert […]
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Selling Information, Not Diamonds
Blue Nile’s divergence from industry norms begins with its purpose. Most jewelers exist for the jewelry. Tiffany & Co., for example, describes itself as “the world’s premier jeweler and America’s house of design.” While this positioning may seem innocuous, it exerts a powerful pull on how Tiffany’s people see their business and the thousands of […]
Faculty Notes: August 2010
Department of Management and International Business A paper titled “Knowledge Accumulation and Dissemination in MNEs: A Practice-Based Framework,” by Aya Chacar, assistant professor, and a colleague, has been accepted for publication in Journal of Management Studies, a high-quality journal. Ed Glab, clinical professor of business and international and public affairs, continues to be tapped by […]
Storytelling and Influence: Learn How to Get What You Want
“Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.”—David M. Ogilvy You have devised a brilliant strategic idea. You’ve asked the right questions, diagnosed the critical issues, conceived a set of unorthodox solutions to address the key issues, narrowed down your ideas into an actionable […]
FIU celebrates Mary Ann Von Glinow’s inauguration as president of AIB.
It was Rio to remember! At the annual meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB), Mary Ann Von Glinow, professor and Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Chair in International Management at Florida International University (FIU), was inaugurated as the 2010-2012 AIB president. FIU celebrated the event in grand style during the conference, which was held […]
Leading finance scholars present seminars at FIU.
In the world of numbers, consider this: during the spring of 2010, four seminars on a range of topics in finance drew 70 to 80 percent of the faculty in the Department of Finance and Real Estate in Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business Administration. Eighty to 90 percent of the department’s PhD students […]
Faculty Notes
Department of Management and International Business The manuscript, “Does Gender Matter? A Review of Work-related Gender Commonalities,” has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Gender in Management: An International Journal. Co authors include G. Ronald Gilbert, clinical professor; Meredith Burnett, assistant professor; Jerry Haar, associate dean for international programs, professor and research fellow; and […]
Andres Carne de Res—the perfect restaurant?
Every year, for the past four, I travel down to Cali, Colombia to talk about “service innovation.” I spend a week with a group of young managers from places like Colgate-Palmolive and Cadbury Schweppes, exploring the anatomy of great service experiences. How do The Four Seasons, Starbucks and Apple Stores engineer unparalleled experience? What frustrates […]
A lesson on leadership—from Venezuela with love
During my recent seminar on “influencing” for 240 managers and entrepreneurs in South America, one issue participants shared with me was the “leadership vacuum.” Local executives, who reach seniority, want to leave Venezuela because of the difficulty of doing business there, and outsiders resist being posted in the country for the same reason. As a […]
Oil spill may force an innovative social construction.
As oil continues to fill the waters off my wife’s home state, Louisiana, inventors around the world are surely scheming up new technologies to prevent such catastrophes from happening again. While I wish for their success and am thankful for their efforts, history says their energy would be better spent engineering a different kind of […]