Center for Business Excellence

Vision: To create generations of leaders focused on long-term organizational value.

Mission: To improve organizational decision making through a stakeholder management framework that integrates 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.

Integrity: Enacting beliefs and boundaries for decision making and behavior that allow for an organization to achieve its objective and strategies consistently within its appetite for risk and responsibility.

Leadership: Being accountable for managing risks that threaten the organization's objective and strategies by making decisions and influencing behavior in ways that consistently convey the organization's integrity, even when doing so creates temporary conflict among some stakeholders.

Transparency: Communicating decision making and behavior outcomes to internal and external stakeholders as honestly, clearly, and completely as possible without violating the organization's appetites for confidentiality and disclosure risk.

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.

April 2009

January 2009

July 2008

Beth Brooke, Ernst & Young Vice Chairman of Global Markets, was the keynote speaker at the EY Business Excellence Student Summit hosted by the Farmer School's Center for Business Excellence. Runtime: 26 minutes, 12 seconds

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