The Editor's Chair.(Dennis W. Organ, Business Horizons)(Brief Article)(Editorial)

Dennis W. Organ, Editor

I've never fully endorsed the maxim that a picture is worth a thousand words. As an academic whose tool of choice is the verbal medium, I insist that a few well-chosen words can convey a message more precisely, reliably, and profoundly than any picture.

But as an enthusiastic photographer (and manic buyer of new digital cameras), I fully appreciate the value of pictures when the right words are hard to come by. And right now, I just can't summon the words that would be appropriate for commenting on the tragedies of September 11 of this year. Much has already been said by President Bush, CNN, and the write-in letters published in your local newspaper. More will have been said by the time these words see the light of day. So I trust that our cover photo of the New York City skyline as we knew it, as we remember it, before the terrorist attacks, will convey something of the sadness, respect, nostalgia, pride, and hope that the BET staff feels.

Kudos to Joseph Monti of CAST Management Consultants and George S. Yip of Cambridge University. Their paper "Taking the High Road When Going International," published in the July-August 2000 issue, was chosen as Best Business Horizons Article on Global Business for the year 2000. This award is sponsored by the Indiana University Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) through its funding agency. IU's CIBER is one of 28 such U.S. Department of Education-funded national resource centers nationwide, mandated to support programs leading to improved U.S. global competitiveness.

BH receives and publishes many fine manuscripts that address global business issues, having received in 1998 a Golden Page Award from ANBAR, Europe's leading electronic intelligence monitor, for Outstanding Applications in Strategic Management. Picking one article from dozens of papers outstanding on their own respective merits is, to some extent, arbitary. ...