{"id":3631,"date":"2009-09-10T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T20:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:00:33","slug":"airlines-ceo-shares-companys-winning-approach-with-graduate-students-in-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/09\/airlines-ceo-shares-companys-winning-approach-with-graduate-students-in-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines CEO shares company\u2019s winning approach with graduate students in Panama."},"content":{"rendered":"

Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines<\/a>—a \u201cpowerhouse of a company,\u201d according to Jerry Haar<\/strong>, has doubtless been called many respectful names. But \u201chuman case study\u201d may be a new one.<\/p>\n

Yet, that\u2019s how Haar described Heilbron as well as other executives who guest lecture in his International Business<\/em> course in the College of Business Administration\u2019s Professional MBA (PMBA)-Panama<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey provide the students with practical information that validates what I teach conceptually,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Pedro<\/a>
Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines, gave a guest lecture in the International Business course in the College of Business Administration\u2019s Professional MBA (PMBA)-Panama program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elizabeth Sanzone<\/strong>, communications officer, U.S. Embassy Panama, and one of 31 students to begin the 20-month program in April 2009, certainly got the message.<\/p>\n

\"Elizabeth<\/a>
Elizabeth Sanzone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHaving the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts about the challenges and issues Heilbron faces as the CEO of a major company was an invaluable educational opportunity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Heilbron shares company\u2019s vision and strategy.<\/em><\/p>\n

A partner of Continental Airlines, Copa \u201cfocuses on doing one thing as best as we can and that is connecting The Americas, and mainly Latin America, thru our hub in the city of Panama,\u201d Heilbron said. \u201cWe accomplish this very effectively by operating aircraft of the right size for the market and serving a combination of both the principal cities of Latin America and a growing number of secondary cities which until recently could only dream of having intra-Latin America connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Including guest speakers serves as more than real-life examples supporting the concepts conveyed through lectures.<\/p>\n

According to Haar, \u201cIt builds good will among Florida International University (FIU), Quality Leadership University, the local university that hosts the program; and the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

And for Sanzone, the Heilbron lecture gave her more than a case-study view of the man and the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was quite impressed that the CEO of a major international airline made time to come and offer insights to our class,\u201d she said. \u201cFor me that spoke volumes about the type of leader he is and the type of company he runs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines—a \u201cpowerhouse of a company,\u201d according to Jerry Haar, has doubtless been called many respectful names. But \u201chuman case study\u201d may be a new one. Yet, that\u2019s how Haar described Heilbron as well as other executives who guest lecture in his International Business course in the College of Business Administration\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[388,753,1288,2110,2147,2167,2181],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631"}],"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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24012,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/24012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}