Exec MBAs completed their Competitive Advantage module by segueing into Fostering Innovation’s course with a specialized Design Thinking Workshop. The simulation focused on creating a sustainable community in a fictional Northwest city. The winning team displays their “prize”; a reward for designing the best solution to helping the fictional town. Design Thinking is a novel [...]
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Creating a Better Boise
March 25, 2011 – 12:54 pm
Executive MBA (EMBA) participant Bonnie Hong, Special Assistant to the Laboratory Director at the Idaho National Laboratory, points to her group’s poster outlining their ideas on how to improve the competitiveness of the city of Boise to special guest Skip Oppenheimer, Chairman/CEO of Oppenheimer Companies, Inc. Mr. Oppenheimer along with other special guests: Phil Kushlan, [...]
Focus on Boise
February 19, 2011 – 11:33 am
Executive MBA participants tackled the real world task of “how to make Boise a more creative city and better place to live” during February class sessions. Classes took place in the Stueckle Sky Center with a panoramic view of Boise and the foothills. Adding to class content were guest speakers Bob Lokken; CEO of WhiteCloud [...]
Former HP Exec, Dick Hackborn, Shares Insights with EMBAs
January 21, 2011 – 3:14 pm
During January’s Mergers & Acquisitions module Dick Hackborn joined Dean, Pat Shannon, and the second year EMBA class members to discuss the HP-Compaq merger and his 33 year career at Hewlett-Packard Company. Mr. Hackborn served first at Director level positions, then at VP levels of various businesses, ending his career as Chairman of HP in [...]
Holiday Negotiation Greetings
December 11, 2010 – 11:44 am
The winter holiday season is a good time to refresh the spirit of collaborative negotiation. What can be better for the holidays than fostering situations that benefit everyone involved as much as possible? Negotiators with the spirit of the season still ask for a discount when doing that holiday shopping or end-of-year deal, but remember [...]
EMBA 3′s Enjoy A Laugh
November 24, 2010 – 6:39 pm
EMBA 3 participants Gary Thompson, Terence Longhurst and Mike Henderson enjoy a lighter moment during their November class session. The 3 day module titled “Turnarounds” covered concepts and actions involved in rescuing distressed business units and organizations. Both traditional classroom sessions and “live” cases were used during the module and included guest executive instructors Dan [...]
Boise State Executive MBA Program Ranked Among Best Worldwide
November 19, 2010 – 4:30 pm
Boise State University’s Executive MBA program earned very high marks for the second consecutive year in an independent survey of its graduates by the international Executive MBA Council. Boise State’s program scored 9.4 out of 10 for overall performance. The average rating for all programs worldwide was 8.5. The Executive MBA Council, comprising more than [...]
EMBA 3 Participants Travel to Vietnam
October 12, 2010 – 4:40 pm
As part of their International Residency Week, the second year Executive MBA participants experience international business up close and personal. This year Boise State University EMBA students again travel to one of the world’s fastest growing economies, Hanoi, Vietnam. This year’s trip will take place the week of October 25th, 2010. Follow their experiences “LIVE” [...]
New Execs Build Study Teams
September 29, 2010 – 10:59 am
During Opening Residency at Sun Valley the new Executive MBA class members participated in numerous team building activities to form their study groups that facilitate learning throughout the two years of the EMBA Program. Additionally the new execs learned strategy, negotiating, and change management.
Doing Business in Emerging Markets
September 28, 2010 – 2:26 pm
As the second year EMBA class prepares to travel to Hanoi, Vietnam for its International Residency in October class members are studying about Vietnam’s exploding economy, culture, and doing business in Vietnam before they leave the United States. In preparation they are scouring business publications and newspapers for the latest news to help them with [...]