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Steve Forbes shares 5 keys for stimulating innovation
Thunderbird commencement speaker Steve Forbes outlines five keys for stimulating innovation and economic growth. These include: 1. Applying the rule of law, 2. Stabilizing money, 3. Lowering taxes, 4....
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The science behind global mindset
Some business leaders excel when their companies send them overseas to do business in foreign environments. Others flop. Thunderbird Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., decided to find out why. The...
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Accelerating growth in a high-tech company
Bob Cremin, chairman, president and CEO of defense contractor Esterline Technologies, talks Sept. 25, 2008, at Thunderbird School of Global Management about streamlining operations, boosting stock...
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Lessons from Tyco for today’s financial crisis
Consultant Eric Pillmore, who helped engineer Tyco’s turnaround as the company’s senior vice president of corporate governance, shares lessons learned from the Wall Street scanals of 2002. Pillmore...
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Pioneer businesswoman discusses leadership, ethics
When Marilyn Carlson Nelson got her first job as a securities analyst, her boss asked her to sign her name “M.C. Nelson” to disguise her gender. Women have come a long way since then. Nelson talks Oct....
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J.P. Morgan executive on sustainable value creation
As managing director of J.P. Morgan’s private banking operations in the Middle East, Steve Klemme spends time with many ultra-high-net-worth families. Klemme, a 1985 Thunderbird graduate who lives and...
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Bankers fail to grasp complexities of globalization
Business leaders can no longer pretend to be working in a fragmented world, the president of Inter-American Development Bank tells Thunderbird graduates Dec. 12. “Every decision you make as a corporate...
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Private equity’s new world: 2008 conference highlights
Private equity industry leaders gathered April 3-4, 2008, at Thunderbird for the fourth annual Global Private Equity Investing Conference. Susan Boedy, a 2002 Thunderbird graduate and director of the...
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More debt not the answer to economic downturn
Government bailout programs designed to soften the landing of a plunging economy will only delay the inevitable, Dallas entrepreneur Scott Walker says Jan. 12 at Thunderbird. “Everything we’re doing...
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Beware of protectionism as Asia falters
For awhile, some economists thought that Asia would survive the global recession and come to the rescue of the West. Thunderbird Professor Roe Goddard, Ph.D., says Feb. 5 during a faculty roundtable...
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The power of optimism in a world turned upside down
Thunderbird Professor Karen Walch, Ph.D., remains optimistic about the future despite a global recession that has turned the world upside down. The cross-cultural negotiation and brain science expert...
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Feeling stressed? Try these crisis management tips
Business managers and others dealing with stress during the economic downturn need to stop and take a deep breath. “You can have a sense of paralysis because the anxiety is so high,” Thunderbird...
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Microfinance pioneer defends commercial model in Mexico
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and others accuse Carlos Danel of exploiting low-income families in Mexico by using a commercial microfinance model at Compartamos Banco. Danel defends the...
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Saving world heritage sites through cultural tourism
The ruins of great civilizations often are found in some of the poorest nations of the world. Jeff Morgan, executive director of the Global Heritage Fund, works in places such as Laos, India and...
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Humanize your selling strategy to win
“Swim with the Sharks” author and syndicated columnist Harvey Mackay built a multimillion dollar envelope company in Minnesota by learning people’s names and humanizing his selling strategy, the...
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From corruption to ethics at IHS
Jerre Stead got a call on Thanksgiving eight years ago. He was serving on the board of a large holding company that owned IHS, a Denver-based information solutions provider. Something was wrong at IHS,...
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Fluor CEO tackles corruption through global initiative
Ethical companies face disadvantages when competitors pay bribes and engage in bid rigging. Alan Boeckmann, chairman and CEO of Fluor Corp., watched the corruption in the engineering construction...
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Realities, past and present, of global oil
Thunderbird Professor Michael Moffett, Ph.D., works closely with oil and gas industry leaders as the academic director for Thunderbird’s various International Consortia programs. “The expertise...
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Avnet drives profits through employee engagement
Profitable growth starts with employee engagement, Avnet Chairman and CEO Roy Vallee said March 19, 2009, at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He describes the “service value chain” that has...
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Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World
Billionaire Warren Buffett stood in the New York Public Library in June 2006 and announced plans to give away most of his wealth. Matthew Bishop, chief business writer for The Economist, left the...
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