Associate Professor of Management, Arizona State University
Luiz Mesquita is an associate professor of management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His prior academic appointments include positions with Austral and Purdue Universities. Luiz also has extensive executive experience at John...
Luiz Mesquita is an associate professor of management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His prior academic appointments include positions with Austral and Purdue Universities. Luiz also has extensive executive experience at John Deere & Company, Valmet, Booz Allen & Hamilton, and the Inter American Development Bank. Luiz’s research interests are in the area of competitive and cooperative coordination among firms. Under this broad umbrella, he has examined the performance implications of coordination between firms in their investments and in the sharing of resources. Luiz is on the editorial boards of our most important journals. A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds a PhD from Purdue.
Reflections from the Interview
Professor Luiz Mesquita has done it all as a businessperson and a scholar. He’s a Brazilian who has lived all around the world, including now in Arizona, where he teaches a course on awakening your entrepreneurial mindset. In this fascinating conversation, he describes the successive deepening over the phases of his career of understanding of what makes businesses contribute to their communities. His landing point is that the strength of our emotional and social connections is right at the center...
Professor Luiz Mesquita has done it all as a businessperson and a scholar.He’s a Brazilian who has lived all around the world, including now in Arizona, where he teaches a course on awakening your entrepreneurial mindset.In this fascinating conversation, he describes the successive deepening over the phases of his career of understanding of what makes businesses contribute to their communities.His landing point is that the strength of our emotional and social connections is right at the center of what makes an organization great.And that’s true of multinationals, family firms, governmental agencies, and entrepreneurial organizations around the world.You build these relationships by doing big things, like traveling the world and starting businesses and trusting people.Luiz sees greatness in bringing passion to the work you do with your closest friends.