Hometown: Lima, Peru
Degrees earned: B.S. in Architectural Engineering from the National Agrarian University, Lima, Peru; MBA Graduate Business School, Lima Peru; Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Finance from Texas Tech University
Arrived at NIU: 1980
Classes taught : I teach graduate and undergraduate classes in strategic management and managing in a competitive organization
By accident! I was offered a scholarship to come to the United States to enhance my skills because of a need for research in the area of strategy. I ultimately took the scholarship because I enjoyed the discipline.
My mission is to create new ideas in the area of strategic processes and to help people and organizations develop their strategic planning and thinking capabilities.
My discipline aims to equip students to understand what senior management does and prepare them for this kind of responsibility.
They learn how to learn and become critical thinkers. They also learn to know their own limits, to be aware of what they know and realize how much they do not know. I teach them ways to expand their minds in strategic management and planning.
I teach using an accelerated self-discovery learning process coupled with reasonable but challenging expectations and demands for the quality of student course work.
What’s a good book you recently read?
“The Age of Discovery,” by Michael Stackpole.
Where do you go in DeKalb for a good meal?
Thai Pavilion
We have good programs and the college of business is one of them. We are professional and are able to provide a great educational experience for our students.
Success without enjoyment and honesty is not success. Find something you like or love and do it with all of your brain and heart.
What pleases me the most about society is the immense amounts of possibilities to explore, do and develop things. What concerns me is the inability of mankind to achieve a high quality of life for everyone within the country and across the world.
I would be a ranger/conservationist in Africa
He passionately loved and enjoyed life and appreciated nature, learning, and people. He always hoped he could make a difference.
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