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MIT’s theorist of productivity draws a link between innovation in management practice and ongoing prosperity.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Education, People

In recent years, GE has faced severe business challenges — the company’s $200 billion market cap is half of what it used to be. Still, an area of enormous strength is the way the company identifies and builds leaders. Much of the credit goes to GE’s corporate learning programs, executed through a learning facility in Crotonville, N.Y. As business becomes more global, how is leadership … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Education, Leadership | Company: General Electric (GE)

The main purpose of the project VideoLectures.Net is to provide free and open access of a high quality video lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Subject: Education

We human beings are not prepared at all for the explosion of new practices the Internet will produce. Education is going to be in networks and it will not be about knowledge. It will be about being successful in relationships, about how to make offers, how to build trust, how to cultivate prudence and emotional resilience.

Content: Quotation | Author: Fernando Flores | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Education, Knowledge

Calling all business students and students of business: Pocket MBA shrinks a complete MBA coursebook to iPhone size. The app originally sells for $29.99, but you can get the lite version for free from the iTunes App Store.

Based on the work of Jae K. Shim (co-author of “The Vest-Pocket MBA”), Pocket MBA covers topics ranging from Business Strategy to Economics to Information Technology.

In each of … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Education, MBA Related, Products & Services

QuickMBA is an online knowledge resource for business administration. Our goal is to help you to quickly find the business knowledge you need, when you need it, wherever you may be. Topics are presented as frameworks and summaries in the various subjects of business administration, as taught in the world’s top MBA programs.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Internet Center for Management and Business Administration Inc. | Subjects: Education, MBA Related, Personal Development

Although becoming a leader may seem simple, the fact is that there’s a lot of consideration that goes into management. You not only have to stay on top of your team, but make sure that you’re fostering communication, growth and productivity. Here, we’ll take a look at a number of high quality courses that will show you how to take care of these issues and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Job Profiles | Subjects: Education, Personal Development

Getting a business education doesn’t have to be expensive. An increasing number of colleges, universities and even nonprofit organizations offer free business courses online. Find out how you can sign up for these courses and what you can get from them.

Content: Article | Source: Education-Portal.com | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, Personal Development

Richard Ludlow launched Academic Earth with the goal of building a user-friendly platform for educational video that would let anyone be able to freely access instruction from the scholars and guest lecturers at the leading academic universities. The site offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost 1300 hours of video) from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton that can be browsed … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, MBA Related, Personal Development

University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality, low-cost and global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university level studies within reach of millions of people across the world. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools

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Free textbooks are a great way to get a free education. This article tells you where you can get all sorts of free textbooks online, including free accounting textbooks, economics textbooks, computer science and technology textbooks, English textbooks, history textbooks and science textbooks.

Content: Article | Source: DiplomaGuide.com | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools

MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) is a collection of teaching materials, including case studies, simulations, deep dives, and industry, business and country overviews that MIT Sloan provides as a free teaching resource open and available to the world. Similar to the course syllabi and materials found on MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, these materials carry a creative commons license allowing them to be downloaded, copied and … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subjects: Education, MBA Related

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Our education systems and workplaces plunge us into deep mental ruts. They reward competencies that are self-reinforcing, not diversifying, and they encourage people to acquire domain expertise rather than to ask stupid questions and learn new things. We need to find our way out of these ruts and rekindle the creativity that many of us left behind in childhood.

Content: Quotation | Author: Steve Jurvetson | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Education

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Some of the top colleges and universities in the world provide free business administration courses online. Here is a list of the best sources.

Content: Article | Source: DegreeDirectory | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, MBA Related, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

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We need to change our educational experience drastically, from one in which we learn to “know” something, toward one in which we learn to “learn” something. The old learn-to-know model is an outcome of the needs of the industrial revolution. Today, some 200 years later, we need to educate for the knowledge economy, which requires a completely different tool set and therefore a different educational … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: José Marí­a Figueres | Source: Kearney | Subject: Education

Managers want the status of professionals, but not all managers want the constraints that go along with professions. Why? For more than 100 years, business education at the top universities has been searching for its soul. HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, author of a new book, says business school education is at a turning point.

Content: Article | Authors: Martha Lagace, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Education, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training