Executive Education
Past Breakfast Clubs
Past Breakfast Club sessions have included:
May 16, 2008
Economic Impact on the Real Estate Market
Presenter: Kenneth Gold (Fisher College of Business)
This session will help you understand and identify real estate opportunities during all economic cycles. You will gain important insights on real estate trends and how to take advantage of them in local, domestic and international markets.
April 16, 2008
Decision Making
Presenter: Pat West (Fisher College of Business)
This session will help you to undercover hidden traps in decision making and we will discuss things you can do to avoid them.
March 7, 2008
Innovation Imperative: A Multi-Level Approach to Discovery
Presenter: Jean-Francois Rischard
This presentation starts by looking in detail at what's behind the unprecedented rate change and complexity that increasingly overwhelms human institutions, minds and mindsets. It then discusses how innovation is the only way out, and how the resulting innovation imperative concerns four levels: innovative individuals, innovative companies, innovative countries, and innovative planetary management. The innovation agenda at each of these levels calls for a specific reversal of values: more developed right brain skills for individuals; flatter and more innovation-friendly structures for companies; more activist, vision-driven government leadership for countries; and out-of-the box, alternative global problem-solving methods for the planet. But all four levels have one thing in common when it comes to innovation: the need to abandon traditional, orthodox navigation methods and adopt innovative, unorthodox ways of doing things.
February 15, 2008
Value-Based Pricing
Presentor: Larry Robinson (Fisher College of Business)
Pricing is the moment of truth---all of marketing comes to focus in the pricing decision. But strategic pricing is about much more than just setting prices. There are many issues which require attention in arriving at the pricing strategy and tactics for any organization. Yet, few managers who participate in setting and implementing pricing strategies have any formal training in this very important business activity.
January 18, 2008
The Coming Recession: How Bad Will It Be?
Presenter: Stephen A. Buser (Fisher College of Business )
Dr. Buser will discuss recent events and trends in the US economy such as declining housing values, continuing problems in mortgage markets, increasing gas prices, the decline in the value of the US dollar, the trade deficit and the federal government deficit. Dr. Buser will also identify and discuss key economic indicators that will signal if and when a recession is eminent and how long and how severe the recession will last.