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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 industry and decided to do something about it through the World Economic Forum. He talks Feb. 26, 2009, about the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative.
Audio: Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (06:19)
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, and Stead was asked to investigate. What he found was a culture of corruption that started at the top of the comany. What began as a two-day inquiry turned into an eight-year project for Stead, who is now chairman and CEO of the company that went public on Nov. 11, 2005. Stead talked Feb. 24, 2009, at Thunderbird about the process of bringing values-based leadership to IHS. Audio: Jerre Stead on values based leadership (14:27)
“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 entrepreneur says Feb. 17, 2009, at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Part of the strategy includes a 66-question customer profile for every client.
Audio: Win with 66-question customer profile (15:45)
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 Guatamala to preserve these sites. He speaks Feb. 12 at Thunderbird about blending cultural tourism with development.
Full length: Creating cultural windows into history (29:37)
Condensed: Guatamalan project avoids Mexico’s mistakes (03:28)
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 commercial model Feb. 10 at Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Full length: Serving clients and shareholders together (28:40)
Condensed: Reality check for microfinance banks (00:40)
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 Professor Christine Pearson, Ph.D., says during a roundtable discussion Feb. 5 that included input from two other Thunderbird professors and several students.
Audio: Dealing with workplace stress and incivility (09:08)
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 says the world is on the edge of a new frontier. “The new frontier is exploring what we can do with our minds,” she says Feb. 5 during a faculty roundtable discussion.
Audio: Exploring the new frontier of the mind (05:31)
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 discussion that that was wishful thinking. The challenge now is to avoid a knee-jerk reaction in the U.S. and Europe toward protectionism.
Audio: Unrest in China as unemployment rates soar (06:52)
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