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New 'Ambicultural' Manager Combines Best of East and West

While Chinese and Western companies have been doing business with each other for many years, styles of communicating often prevent them from working together as efficiently as possible. Combining the better of two cultures can help managers bridge the cultural chasm underlying them.

Ming-Jer Chen

Chen is a leading authority in strategic management, a field that helps companies align corporate policies and resources with strategic priorities.

How to Drive Business Growth and Innovation in Your Company

You do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the pace of business change continues to accelerate and that technology is a big driver. Well, buckle your seat belts, because on the horizon are cost-effective robots and smart machines powered by artificial intelligence.

Living Lean: How to Save Time and Money by Using Principles of Lean Thinking in Everyday Situations

Although lean principles originated in the business arena, they can be readily applied to everyday scenarios in our lives to improve the way we operate.

BizBasics: ‘Big Data’ With Robert Carraway

In this video, Professor Robert Carraway breaks down what big data is and explains how its four components can work together to avoid life-changing errors and missed opportunities.

Robert L. Carraway

Carraway, professor and former senior associate dean of the MBA program, is an authority on the appropriate and constructive use of quantitative analysis in making important decisions.

Peter Debaere

Debaere is a leading international economist, with a focus on international trade, multinationals and trade policy. His work addresses fundamental questions about the extent to which trade theories can explain actual international trade patterns.

Education in Entrepreneurship Gives Prison Inmates a Second Chance

Each day, nearly 1,600 prisoners in the United States leave jail and re-enter society. One of the primary factors influencing recidivism, or the return to prison, is the inability to find a job. People can change, and educational institutions can make a big difference in the success of their futures.

Edward D. Hess

Hess is a top authority on organizational and human high performance. His studies focus on growth, innovation and learning cultures, systems and processes, and servant leadership.

Ronald T. Wilcox

Wilcox has four specific areas of expertise: marketing financial services, branding, marketing for nonprofits and public policy, and marketing.