{"id":36289,"date":"2021-11-17T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=36289"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:54:35","slug":"global-executive-brings-a-new-perspective-on-entrepreneurial-thinking-to-fiu-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2021\/11\/global-executive-brings-a-new-perspective-on-entrepreneurial-thinking-to-fiu-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Global executive brings a new perspective on entrepreneurial thinking to FIU Business."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Deepak
Deepak Ohri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Deepak Ohri leads one of the world\u2019s most admired luxury brands by marshalling his team to push boundaries. He once challenged his staff to create the ultimate dinner \u2013 and they did, creating the world\u2019s most expensive meal of its kind in 2007.<\/p>\n

Yet he still remembers how a simply packaged toothbrush was marketed as a luxury item in his native country of India, in areas where such basics were in short supply.<\/p>\n

An entrepreneurial mindset, he noted, allows individuals to create a new perspective on branding. It\u2019s one that can help build success stories at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey.<\/p>\n

Ohri shared this story and many others on October 28, 2021 at his lecture, \u201cEntrepreneurship Through the Eyes of Luxury,\u201d at FIU Business. It marked Ohri\u2019s first official visit to the FIU Business campus as the newly-appointed executive in residence at the college\u2019s Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center.<\/p>\n

\"Deepak
Deepak Ohri and William Hardin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As CEO of Bangkok-based Lebua Hotels, Ohri has refined a set of guiding principles for entrepreneurial success. Since 2006, he has worked in Asia and New Zealand, founding a luxury hotel chain. His innovative \u201cMillion Baht Dinner<\/a>,\u201d a 10-course, $30,000 meal, was one example of entrepreneurial thinking in the luxury market.<\/p>\n

\u201cEntrepreneurship is more important in today\u2019s world,\u201d said Ohri, emphasizing the need for people to start their own businesses in post-COVID life. He challenged students in the room to examine their own perspectives on entrepreneurial and corporate thinking, directly engaging them to develop their own career vision by learning inside and outside the classroom.<\/p>\n

In a series of 16 short stories, Ohri outlined his keys to success, each one corresponding to a guiding principle \u2013 efficiency, nature, time, rules, execution, packaging, research, ethics, naivety, emotions, understanding, responsiveness, self-respect, hard work, innovation and perspective. Together, they spell out \u201centrepreneurship\u201d and are how he directs himself as a businessman. Ohri\u2019s guidance focuses on building relationships with others, hard work, and being innovative in every area of entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

\"Deepak
Deepak Ohri, Bill Hardin and Anna Pietraszek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt has to do not with capability, but with outward thinking,\u201d said Ohri. \u201cYour biggest asset is people,\u201d he added, noting that nothing can replace the value of people in business.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo college is going to teach you that you\u2019re going to fall a lot,\u201d said Ohri, explaining that entrepreneurs can be encouraged by the lessons they\u2019ll learn as they go and the ways they\u2019ll grow.<\/p>\n

The Pino Center focuses on working with entrepreneurs to develop the skills and contacts they need to reach their goals. The center also strengthens new community businesses to build entrepreneurs across South Florida and the Americas. In addition to Ohri\u2019s appointment as executive in residence, the center recently appointed Anna Pietraszek, assistant teaching professor of marketing and logistics and director of global operations, as a fellow in entrepreneurship and innovation. She and Ohri, who are teaching a new luxury branding class<\/a> as part of the MBA program, will help expand the center\u2019s mission to include new, innovative educational programs in the international arena.<\/p>\n

William Hardin, interim dean of FIU Business, welcomed Ohri to the campus, noting the importance of his entrepreneurial perspective and focus on education to the Pino Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored to have a leader of Deepak\u2019s stature at the Pino Center,\u201d Hardin said. \u201cHis experience, his innovation and his passion for teaching will be deeply appreciated, not only among our students, but by the highly entrepreneurial, international business community in South Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deepak Ohri leads one of the world\u2019s most admired luxury brands by marshalling his team to push boundaries. He once challenged his staff to create the ultimate dinner \u2013 and they did, creating the world\u2019s most expensive meal of its kind in 2007. Yet he still remembers how a simply packaged toothbrush was marketed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":36295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[143,4747,813,4745,4737],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36309,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289\/revisions\/36309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}