EMBA’s met at the WaterCooler in downtown Boise this month. Participants took part in workshops designed to help expand their innovation projects at the world’s only business development center dedicated to the creative economy. Included in the session was a VC panel discussion with John Glerum (BSU TECenter), Will Wardwell (Hawley-Troxell), Glen Michael (Highway 12 [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Benefiting From Change – Cross Functional Work Teams
May 20, 2009 – 3:20 pm
The idea of cross-functional work teams – where employees from different parts of a company work together to develop new products – often conflicts with the status quo. But it doesn’t have to. Business firms tend to organize people by skill areas: marketing people work together, finance people work together, and production people work together. [...]
Informational Open House
May 18, 2009 – 12:18 pm
Learn more about the Executive MBA (EMBA) program from alumni, current participants, faculty and staff. When: June 22, 2009 – 5:30pm-7:30pm Where: Stueckle Sky Center Loft – BSU Campus
Geographically Dispersed Work Teams
May 12, 2009 – 3:58 pm
Industry expert, Manny Kostas, VP of HP’s Ink Jet and Web Solutions, shared his know-how with the EMBA class on managing geographically dispersed work teams. April 2009 Manny Kostas teaches EMBA session
A More Competitive Boise
May 12, 2009 – 3:57 pm
Execs hosted a poster session for city leaders to present ideas they developed as part of their competitive advantage course to “Make Boise more Creative and Competitive.” A panel discussion followed with the class and Mark Rivers of Brix (BoDo developer); Alan Shealy, City of Boise; Phil Kushlan, CCDC and Karen Bubb, City of Boise. [...]
Business Meets Art
May 12, 2009 – 3:56 pm
Trey McIntyre Project’s Exec Dir., John Michael Schert shared with execs of Nancy Napier’s Competitive Advantage course why the dance company chose to locate in Boise rather than other major cities in the US. Boise allows the dancers to have grassroots interaction and give something to the community while still being fiscally viable. Learn more [...]
Treasure Valley Economics Address
May 12, 2009 – 3:53 pm
This month Executive MBA participants had a special presentation on “The State of Treasure Valley Economics” by Dr. Don Holley, renowned Economist and Professor at Boise State University. In addition to exploring the current recession and its implications and impact on Idaho, Don gave his projection for the recovery. December 2008 Don Holley speaks to [...]
Professional Selling
May 12, 2009 – 3:49 pm
Managers often say they need help teaching their salespeople to close–they just aren’t converting prospects to customers. As many of our Executive MBA participants pointed out in last month’s session, closing often isn’t the problem. Professional selling is a series of steps and many models, such as the one below, indicate that “closing” is [...]
Bad Slide vs. Good Slide
May 12, 2009 – 3:47 pm
Make your presentations memorable by improving your PowerPoint slides. In an attempt to provide information, presenters often create cluttered slides. This distracts the audience from your message; they try to decipher the slides instead of listening to you. Create powerful, simple visual slides and put number-heavy tables and wordy descriptions in a handout. The audience [...]