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The Fall 2003 issue of Rotman magazine contains 68 pages of varying quality articles and other information. I personally recommend reading the following:
– Brand U: Why Branding Yourself makes Sense
– Knowing vs. Doing: Why Can’t We Get Anything Done? by Jeffrey Pfeffer
– The Race for Effectiveness: Is it Effective? by Hilary Austen
– Working With Emotional Intelligence by Stéphane Côté
– Making Your Mind … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

The Winter 2005 issue of Rotman magazine contains 100 pages of varying quality articles and other information. I personally recommend reading the following:
– Validity vs. Reliability: Implications for Management by Roger Martin
– The Evolution of the Design-Inspired Enterprise by Gabriella Lojacono and Gianfranco Zaccai
– Promoting Experimentation for Organizational Learning: The Mixed Effects of Inconsistency by Amy Edmondson
– Beyond Products: Designing the Brand Experience by … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous

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Much quantitative data—what we now think of as hard, concrete facts—are really quite soft and abstract.

Think about it. We come up with a question—say, how’s morale? We create abstract categories related to that question, categories like trust, confidence, or autonomy; we use these categories to formulate statements in some kind of survey; we give the survey to lots of people; we ask them to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Diana McLain Smith | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Market Research, Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

Companies, with few exceptions, become more bureaucratic and less innovative as they grow. To counter this tendency, many firms, including the Intel Corporation and IBM, have developed internal corporate venture capital (CVC) arms to supplement their internal R&D efforts. The idea of CVC is to identify and invest in innovative startups, with an eye toward licensing their new technologies or buying the promising companies outright. … [ Read more ]

Content: Related Content | Authors: Daniel C. Robeson, Gautam Kasthurirangan | Source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Working Paper | Subject: Miscellaneous

This is the second of a three book series, the first being The Financier, which continues the saga of Frank Cowperwood’s quest for power and wealth through the use of financial acumen. The novel can also be viewed as a fictionalized history lesson of the tactics employed by the political and financial shakers and movers of that period. See other titles by this author available … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Subject: Miscellaneous

Anthropology professor Mike Wesch of Kansas State University presented this lecture at the Library of Congress on June 23rd, 2008.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Mike Wesch | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Miscellaneous

This powerful novel explores the dynamics of the financial world during the Civil War and after the stock market panic caused by the Chicago fire. Frank Cowperwood, a ruthlessly dominating broker, climbs the ladder of success, occasionally missing a rung or two, with his loving mistress championing his every move. Based on the life of flamboyant financier C.T. Yerkes, Dreiser’s portrayal of the unscrupulous magnate … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Theodore Dreiser | Subject: Miscellaneous

This article by an anonymous writer using the byline “Uncle Saul” lists the vast number business books failings, specifically from the point of view of entrepreneurs.

Editor’s Note: Entrepreneur or not, this is an interesting, and sadly true, read.

Content: Article | Source: socalTECH | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous

There are only two ways of spreading light—to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Content: Quotation | Author: Edith Wharton | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Wisdom

A black swan is an outlier, an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations. Most people expect all swans to be white because that’s what their experience tells them; a black swan is by definition a surprise. Nevertheless, people tend to concoct explanations for them after the fact, which makes them appear more predictable, and less random, than they are. Our minds are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Source: Edge Foundation | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

Here are notes from a Q&A session with Buffett hosted for students from Emory’s Goizueta Business School and McCombs School of Business at UT Austin.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Dang Le, Warren Buffett | Subjects: Market/Investment, Miscellaneous

strategy+business reviews the best behavioral theory books of 2007.

Content: Related Content | Author: Howard Rheingold | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

Gallup’s World Poll reveals new findings on the “great global dream” and how it will affect the rise of the next economic empire.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clifton | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Economics, International, Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

Whatever you’re designing — software or toasters, microprocessors or skyscrapers — you need to “put user experience front and center,” says Bill Buxton. Here, Buxton makes a passionate case for a better way to design interactive products and the experiences surrounding them. The centerpiece is a technique humans have used successfully for centuries: sketching.

Content: Book | Author: Bill Buxton | Subjects: Innovation, Miscellaneous

The Spring 2007 issue of Rotman magazine contains 124 pages of varying quality articles and other information. I personally recommend reading the following:
– Thought Leader Interview: Daniel Kahneman
– Countering the Biggest Risk of All by Adrian Slywotzky and John Drzik
– Bounded Awareness by Dolly Chugh and Max Bazerman
– Hull’s Laws: What we can learn from derivatives mishaps by John Hull
– A Primer on the Management … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior, Risk Management

Can You Afford Not To? Throughout the world, Muslims are becoming increasingly active as investors and manufacturers, bankers and traders, competitors and suppliers, and becoming real partners in a global economic system. Muslims comprise one of the fastest growing consumer markets in the world and, hence, represent a major growth opportunity for businesses around the world.

Content: Article | Authors: Dirk Buchta, Martin Walker, Tracey Reuter | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Demographics, International, Miscellaneous

New research suggest that the best way to promote fraud detection is to extend the Federal Civic False Claim Act to corporate fraud.

Content: Article | Authors: Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Legal, Miscellaneous