Center for Business Excellence

Through scholarly, educational, and collaborative activities, the Center for Business Excellence (CBE) strives to be the international academic thought leader in helping current and future business leaders manage and respond to stakeholder expectations through effective business decisions by balancing three key elements: Integrity, Leadership, and Transparency.

2008 Annual Report
Read more about us in the new Annual Report for the Center for Business Excellence.

Why focus on these areas?

The Center will focus on integrity, leadership, and transparency because these elements are key to business leaders achieving business excellence in responding to a variety of demands and pressures.

Respond to demands and pressures. Like what?

  • Shareholder value creation
  • Product quality
  • Legal/regulatory requirements
  • Global investment
  • International security
  • Quarterly earnings
  • Budget control
  • Labor issues
  • Economic development
  • Customer relationships
  • Fair competition
  • Environmental responsibility
  • Community involvement
  • Governmental relations
  • Investor confidence

What else will the Center do?

The Center for Business Excellence will not only help prepare future leaders for dealing with these challenges, but will help current leaders in facing them as well.

The Center’s emphasis is consistent with Miami University’s Strategic Plan that emphasizes developing student life goals of integrity, responsibility, engagement, and ethical behavior.  Further, the Center’s programs and activities will involve solving contemporary business problems through interdisciplinary engagement, collaboration, research, and curriculum innovation, which will assist Miami in its quest to become The Engaged University.

The Center for Business Excellence’s combined focus on integrity, leadership, and transparency will bring business leaders, students, regulators, and faculty together to address the challenges of increasing long-term organizational value in today’s business world. These challenges will be addressed through a variety of programs that generate research, share ideas, inform policy making, and develop curriculum about how integrity, leadership, and transparency can influence decisions that increase long-term value. These business decisions involve many disciplines:

Business decisions involve many disciplines. Like what?

  • Corporate governance
  • Policy setting
  • Performance measurement
  • Strategic management
  • Risk optimization
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Resource allocation
  • Business process management
  • Communication

More scholarly, educational, and collaborative activities:
Learn more about the CBE, Executive Conference, and EY Business Excellence Student Summit.

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JULY
July 20-22 E&Y Business Excellence Student Summit at Miami University more

Summit Brochure
Download the 2008 EY Business Excellence Student Summit brochure to learn more about this new program for students.