Management
My Educational Pursuits in the CSB
By Jorge Luis Gonzalez-Romo— I’m a University of St. Thomas graduate. I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in Marketing from the Cameron School of Business. I would like to share my experiences as a student, and primarily how the CSB shaped me as a person, helped me develop my character, and helped…
Read MoreEffective Leadership is About Personal Growth
By Ally Montillo–Our life experiences and responses to them are of critical importance in how our leadership skills are formed and the type of leaders we will become. Think of turning points in your career or academic path, ones that shaped you as a leader, a significant moment of clarity, adversity or diversity that changed…
Read MoreFraud Prevention
By Cassandra Andrews— A company or individual can never be 100% protected from fraud, but there are certain measures that a company or individual can take to be as protected as possible. Everyone who works in a company can be dishonest. There are two essential aspects that are key to having a low-fraud environment. The…
Read MoreThe Best Lesson I Have Ever Learned From A Wise Man: The Significance of Intellectual Humility
By Miguel Martinez-Zavala — It was during the spring of 2011, and while I was waiting outside the Cameron School of Business office for one of my MBA classes to start, when I asked a classmate who was the person on the wheelchair getting into the Malloy Hall building. “He is Prof. Whitney,” he replied.…
Read MoreLower the Minimum Wage
Despite the struggling economy, documented by a workforce participation rate of less than 63%, proponents have urged an increase in the Federal minimum wage. This is a bad move at the worst possible time. Even Janet Yellen, Chair of the Federal Reserve, indicated that loose monetary policies will continue due to the poor job market.…
Read MoreNo More Black Box Approach to Teams: Blending Team Diversity and Task Structure to Increase the Efficacy of Teamwork
There are various ways to classify and examine diverse attributes in teams as such diversity (team diversity) reflects a variety of demographic, cultural, experiential, and personal differences that individual members possess which in turn influences team processes and outcomes. For example, observable individual differences and underlying personal attributes are often used to examine various outcomes…
Read MoreEmerging Business Models: Conscious Capitalism and Peace through Commerce
If globalization is considered the most challenging development of modern times then bioterrorism may be its most pressing concern. Increasingly, the connections between health, development and security are becoming clear. The advances in biotechnology, directed toward improving health status, facilitate the reality of bioterrorism, directed toward destroying quality of life and security. Bioterrorism, which involves…
Read MoreWhy Are There Generational Cohorts?
Do you ever find yourself wondering about someone else’s behavior, speech, or dress? “What were they thinking?” “Did you forget you were coming to work today?” “Did you really think that was going to work for you?” Often, this happens when we look across generational boundaries. Simply put, generational cohorts are groups of people who:…
Read MoreHow Much Data is BIG Data?
A Fair Question. Everyone in business is talking about Big Data, but the term is impenetrably, wonderfully vague in common use. Certainly, it means dealing with large amounts of data, but businesses have been struggling with processing large amounts of data for eons. The current emphasis on ‘Big data’ has to be more than just…
Read MoreThe Millennials are Coming!
Actually, the Millennials are here, but many businesses are just now recognizing the challenges of managing the latest generation to enter the workforce. Generational cohorts are groups of people who are similar in age and exhibit similar behaviors. Different authors use slightly different classifications, but in general, the Silent Generation was born between 1925 and…
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