US Education Spending
Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course
He captivated the world with visions of self-driving cars and Google Glass and has signed up 1.6 million students for online classes. So why is he pivoting away from MOOCs? “We don’t educate people as others wished, or as I wished,” Thrun says.
Content: Case Study | Author: Max Chafkin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Education, Industry Specific | Industry: Education / Training
Distribution of Corporate Training Budgets
Report finds college giving has ‘hit a wall’
Race/Ethnicity Percentages of FT Business School Faculty in the United States
Practically Irrelevant?
What is the point of research carried out in business schools?
Content: Article | Source: The Economist | Subject: MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
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
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Manage
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Rakesh Khurana | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG) | Industry: Education / Training
Spending on Employee Learning and Development
Richard Rumelt
A giant in the field of strategy ruminates on strategic planning, diversification and focus, and the role of the CEO.
Editor’s Note: an excellent interview – highly recommended…
Content: Thought Leader | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
Content: Online Resource | Subject: Associations / Organizations | Industry: Education / Training
MBA course surge outside the US
MBA Enrollment by Ethnicity (US Schools)
12 Unavoidable Truths About E-Learning
In the haste to “get it out there,” organizations are ignoring some basic realities about technology and learning, as well as about today’s learners. This results in e-learning programs that are time-consuming to create, expensive to produce and deploy and don’t change behaviors in a way that “moves the needle” for business results.
So how effective are your e-learning efforts? It’s time to find out. Think … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Kenneth Carlton Cooper | Source: Chief Learning Officer | Subjects: Human Resources, Management | Industry: Education / Training
The Science of Corporate Learning
The notion of different types of learners and learning styles usually refer to “auditory,” “visual” and “verbal.” While these distinctions are valid, there is a different way to think about this: in terms of how people think about their goals.
Content: Article | Author: Donalee Markus, Ph.D. | Source: Chief Learning Officer | Subjects: Education, Human Resources | Industry: Education / Training
Training: Rounding up the Usual Suspects
With literally billions of dollars spent on training, why is it not more effective in changing organizations’ practices? Why are training departments becoming today’s “usual suspects?”
Content: Article | Author: Abhay Padgaonkar | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Human Resources | Industry: Education / Training
Racing for Knowledge: International Comparisons
Henry Mintzberg
McGill University professor Henry Mintzberg is an astute, acclaimed management thinker, a prolific author, and an iconoclast who has advised some of the world’s largest corporations. In this feature interview, whether he’s discussing management, the organization, or shareholder value, Professor Mintzberg provokes with his observations on what is needed in many aspects of the organization today.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Joseph Badaracco
Careers are shaped by decisions. But some decisions have more than one perfectly reasonable answer. An ethics expert has advice on making management choices you can live-and succeed-with.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: David Rosenbaum | Source: CIO Magazine | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Warren Bennis
“In an analogue world,” says one of the foremost authorities on leadership in this interview, “the CEO knew everything. But in the digital world, it’s more humility and vulnerability. Leaders have to understand these differences if they want to really create not only intellectual capital but also social capital.” Mr. Bennis goes on to describe the challenges facing leaders today and offers his observations on … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training