Articles in Faculty
Annual luncheon recognizes faculty contributions.
Faculty members toil long and hard on behalf of their students, the College of Business Administration and Florida International University (FIU). That dedication gets recognized annually at the Faculty Awards Luncheon, this …
Executive Dean announces prestigious faculty appointments for 2010.
William Newburry, associate professor, Department of Management and International Business, and Stephen Lin, associate professor, School of Accounting, have been appointed to three-year endowed professorships in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University …
Faculty Notes: September 2010
Department of Management and International Business
Jerry Haar, associate dean for international programs, professor and research fellow, was quoted in an article about the economic recovery titled Pulling out fastest: health, tourism, education, government in Miami …
iVentures: Welcome to fall
It may still feel like summer outside, but on the Florida International University (FIU) campus, it’s fall again—time to welcome new faces and old friends and to look toward the future.
Over the past year, our …
Condense your strategy to its core
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
