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Cabrera, Ph.D.
Thunderbird president writes about global leadership.
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T-birds around the world create value as business, government and social sector leaders.
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Thunderbird Professor Robert Hisrich, Ph.D., and others at the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship provide resources for global entrepreneurs.
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Thunderbird professor writes about sustainable business strategy for the Huffington Post.
Bill Youngdahl, Ph.D.
Thunderbird professor writes about leadership and strategy in a project-driven world.
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Students share their views on global management from the classroom and around the world.
Global managers who thrive in foreign environments are hard to find. They are also easy to lose, Thunderbird Dean of Research and Garvin Distinguished Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., told business school executives Nov. 14 as the keynote speaker at the MBA Roundtable in Washington. | Video: Retaining high-potential global leaders (2:02) |
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Business leaders with global ambitions can learn a powerful lesson about supply chain management from one pair of blue jeans. That’s what Thunderbird Dean of Research and Garvin Distinguished Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., discovered when his teenage daughter asked him one day for an expensive pair of pants. | Video: Global supply chain for blue jeans (3:00) |
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Business schools recognize the need to help their students develop a global mindset, but few of these schools use any type of instrument to measure outcomes. Thunderbird uses the Global Mindset Inventory, a scientific instrument developed on campus that Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., shared Nov. 14 at the MBA Roundtable in Washington. | Video: What Thomas Friedman didn’t tell you (2:14) |
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Entrepreneur Scott Walker made millions on the 2005 sale of BillMatrix, a Dallas-based venture that handles electronic bill payment services for clients such as insurance companies and utilities. But instead of retiring, the Thunderbird graduate moved forward in 2007 as founder and chairman of ProCore Laboratories, a contract filling company that puts powders, liquids and gels into containers for grateful brand owners. One year later, the venture is turning profits. Walker says the key to success is his straightforward business philosophy and the discipline to stick to a plan.
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Business manager Christopher O’Neill experienced culture shock when he arrived at Google in 2005 after working at a big bank resistant to change. “Google was the polar opposite,” he told a group of students, faculty and staff Nov. 6 at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz. “If you have a great idea at Google, and the initiative and drive to do it, guess what? You’re going to go do it.”
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How high will the unemployment rate go? Chase Card Services CEO Gordon Smith said Nov. 13 at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz., that more than one in 10 U.S. workers could be jobless before the global economy hits bottom. But don’t hold Smith to that figure. | Video: Gordon Smith on leadership in tough times (2:38) |
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Too much capital in the wrong hands drove up U.S. housing prices and triggered the current mortgage default crisis, a national real estate researcher said Oct. 16 at Thunderbird School of Global Management. “A huge amount of money was pushed into these private equity opportunistic funds,” said Brad Case, Ph.D., vice president of research and industry information at the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts in Washington.
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Regular season NBA games don’t usually generate much buzz in early November. But things were different in 2007 when the Milwaukee Bucks visited the Houston Rockets just two weeks into the season. More than 200 million Chinese fans tuned in to watch the first NBA matchup between Rockets center Yao Ming and Bucks forward Yi Jianlian — two ambassadors of a growing basketball movement in the world’s largest sports market.
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By Michele von Rautenkranz, Thunderbird director of regional initiatives for Southeast Asia and a 1988 Thunderbird graduate
Indonesian companies that want to compete globally need to focus on building a well-trained workforce led by educated managers, an Indonesian business leader told a group of Thunderbird alumni Oct. 15 in Jakarta. Jimmy Masrin, a Thunderbird graduate, helped his father and brother build a small family business into a publicly traded global enterprise in Indonesia with more than 3,000 employees.
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Most global entrepreneurs start in their home market and then grow outward. Opera Software cofounder and CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner took the opposite approach with his company, which delivers the Internet to the masses through speedy Web browsers that work on outdated mobile phones as well as state-of-the-art personal computers. | Video: Opera in Emerging Markets (1:59) | Video: Global from Day 1 (1:58) |
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