Centers & Institutes
Exciting things are happening within our centers, institutes, and special program initiatives. Here’s a collection of recent stories and updates.
How winning teams navigate conflict to stay on course
Award-winning research by Beta Mannix and colleagues details strategies successful teams used to manage conflict.
The world is not flat… and that creates many opportunities!
Roberto dos Reis Alvarez is the Executive Director of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC – www.thegfcc.org). In his famous book “The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century”, Thomas Friedman highlights ten forces that are shaping a ‘flat world’. Later in 2005, Richard Florida wrote an article in The Atlantic […]
Is Brazil becoming a true market oriented modern economy?
Corruption and a corrupted way of doing politics, populist measures and relaxed fiscal and monetary policies showed that Brazil still has a long way to go before becoming a developed country. by Decio Oddone, O&G Officer at Prumo Logistics In 1985, after twenty-one years of military rule, a democratic government rose to power in Brazil. […]
Building a smart distribution strategy
Kelly McGuire interviews Barry Van Weelden, CHR Advisory Board member and senior director of sales strategy and operations at priceline.com.
Emerging and Connected: Insights on Broadband from Brazil
We are always online. We pay our rent, buy furniture, take language lessons and schedule our next appointment to the doctor, let alone the time spent on social media. The Internet is part of our lives and we take it for granted. In fact, we barely remember how life was before we could wake up […]
Cornell research uncovers keys to successful and lasting diversity training
Co-authored research by Jamie Perry found the most effective types of diversity training and programs use many different instructional methods.
Long-distance collaboration: Some keys to more productive teams
Recent Cornell research suggests that smaller groups accomplish more because fewer connections allow members to interact more frequently and intimately.
The New Food Entrepreneurs
At these startups, pursuit of profit pairs well with good nutrition, delicious flavor, and a healthy respect for the environment.
The Impact of Entrepreneurship and Interorganizational Networks on Global Innovations Development: The Evidence of Foreign Subsidiaries Operating in the Country
Throughout the last decade, the focus of international business studies guided by the theory of networks has highlighted the role of integration of subsidiaries in the host country business networks as a key factor in explaining the generation of knowledge and innovation in subsidiaries (ANDERSSON, 2003; ANDERSSON; BJÖRKMAN; FORSGREN, 2005; ANDERSSON; FORSGREN; HOLM, 2002; CIABUSCHI; […]