Two colleagues in the Department of Marketing at Florida International University, (FIU)—Peter Dickson, professor, Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Logistics Management, and Walfried Lassar, Ryder Professor and director, Ryder Center for Supply Chain Management and department chair—won the 2009-2010 Marvin Jolson Award for the Best Contribution to Selling and Sales Management Practice in the Journal […]
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New editor of premier international business journal gives preview at FIU.
Even before officially beginning his three-year tenure as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), one of the leading publications in its field, John Cantwell came to the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) to share his vision for the publication with more than 25 faculty members and doctoral students. […]
iVentures: Power of a chance encounter
Have you ever had a chance encounter that turned into a pivotal move for your business? Maybe it was a quick chat at a party that didn’t seem to mean anything at the time—but months later, held out amazing possibilities. How did you decide to let it drop or follow it up? In the spring […]
Computers and the Crash: Human Intuition Cannot Be Replaced
Last week’s one-day stock market plunge nearly ruined our kitchen. We are remodeling our house and planned to sell stock to cover the cost of kitchen cabinets, but when we called our broker to initiate the trade we learned our shares had dropped 20% in just a few hours! We knew something strange was happening—the […]
Haar to heart: An inconvenient truth—the federal government, not Wall Street, deserves the greatest blame
If one were to combine elements of Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel The Castle, Edward Albee’s Zoo Story and the Spanish Inquisition, one would have the recent congressional hearings on alleged malfeasance by Wall Street investment firms. The persecutory behavior and theatrics displayed by a number of Senate inquisitors were matched only by their appalling ignorance […]
iVentures: Growing a “gut feeling” at the iEntrepreneurship Lab
How do angel investors and venture capitalists make the decision about investing in a new venture? How do they determine if the company they are betting on is worth $7 million, $25 million or $100 million? The “art” of due-diligence fascinates me. I call it an art, because as much as we apply sound financial […]
Find an Expansive View
Picking the right scale for your mission is an art. Define your purpose too narrowly and soon run out of aspirations to fill. Set your sights too high and you risk de-motivating your people. To illustrate this concept, I want to examine two seemingly similar companies: inVentiv Health (VTIV) and PDI Inc. (PDII). In 2002 […]
College ranks high in operations research.
According to a recent article in Interfaces, the College of Business Administration has an outstanding record in practical applications of operations research and finds itself in impressive company. An editorial titled “The Eighth Rothkopf Rankings of Universities’ Contributions to the INFORMS Practice Literature,” by Ronald D. Fricker Jr., a member of the Operations Research Department […]
iVentures: TEDx—A “Tipping Point”
Whenever you throw a party, there’s always a tipping point—the moment you know you have enough of a crowd for your guests to begin great conversations. The same principle can be applied to any dynamic community, including South Florida’s high tech and venture capital sectors. The ability to conduct a productive exchange, generate ideas and […]
Getting Your Mojo Back
Their unprecedented winning streak was about to end. After 77 wins, the most by any women’s college basketball team, the women of the University of Connecticut Huskies walked off the court with a 20-12 deficit against Stanford at half time. It seemed clear the Huskies had lost their mojo. How would your organization respond to […]