Arie De Geus
Arie de Geus, London Business School, believes archaic legislation is killing off new firms, and traditional business structures give too much power to too few people.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Jeffrey Sachs
Call him crazy, but Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor and world-famous economist, wants to save the world–and he’s got a plan to do it.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Wayne Kalyn | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Charles Handy
Business schools teach you the language of business, and that’s quite useful. It’s like if you want to go to work in France you have to learn French. It doesn’t mean you’re going to be very good in France, but it’s good to learn the language. I think that what business schools do is to teach you the language of business and some managerial skills, … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Education, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Terms such as “empowerment”, “employee participation” and “change management” so dominate the vocabulary of organization behaviour today. Not surprisingly, the person who coined those terms and championed their importance, Rosabeth Moss Kanter of the Harvard Business School, has herself become one of the highest-profile academics and respected consultants in the world. In this interview, the author discusses the changes in leadership styles during the 30 … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Percent of MBA Enrollment by Ethnicity – US
College Students in the US
Putting Learning to Work: Principles and Strategies for Improving Performance
While the full story of the next economy and beyond has yet to be written, it is clear that the winners in the future economic environment will be those companies and individuals best able to learn quickly the skills required to thrive in the emerging business climate. This report focuses on two competency areas that are believed to be critical: leadership and management competencies, and … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Tom Atkinson | Source: Forum | Subjects: Human Resources, Industry Specific | Industry: Education / Training
Online Degrees Gain Acceptance
Sink-or-Swim Attitude Strands New Managers
Training new supervisors has a positive effect on all of the supervisor’s staff and produces more results than the supervisor was able to accomplish as an individual performer. While many companies offer some sort of management training, often it’s ineffective. But by adjusting when the training is conducted, what is included and who conducts it, you can make big differences in the effectiveness of your … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Kathryn Tyler | Source: Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) | Subjects: Education, Human Resources | Industry: Education / Training
Full Time Business Faculty by Gender and Rank (2004-2005 US Schools)
All I Really Need to Know I Learned Online
The Upwardly Global MBA
A survey of 100-plus executives in more than 20 countries identifies the knowledge, skills, and attributes young leaders need to succeed.
Content: Article | Authors: Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Nigel Andrews | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources | Industry: Education / Training
Total Business School Enrollment Percentage by Level
Jeffrey Garten
When it comes to business education, for better or worse — and I think for worse — business schools are followers, not leaders. Typically, business schools hold their finger up to the wind and ask, What do our customers want? They have two kinds of customers. One is the people who are doing the hiring, and the other is the students. I happen to think … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Education, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training
Jeffrey Garten
Over the last fifteen years there have been a lot of ratings of business schools, and these ratings are very akin to customer-satisfaction ratings. You’re basically asking the students, How good was the experience? That presumes that the students know what it is that they should be learning, or whether the environment in a particular school is better than another school that they never attended. … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Education, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training
The Relearning of E-Learning
Median Average GMAT Scores for MBA Programs – U.S. Accredited Institutions
Jeffrey Garten
Ten years ago, Jeffrey Garten was brought in to turn around the Yale School of Management. Did he pull it off?
Content: Thought Leader | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Philip Bobbitt
The constitutional scholar and national security expert defines a new era of market statehood.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Lynn Sharp Paine
Lynn Sharp Paine is the John G. McLean Professor at the Harvard Business School. Professor Paine holds a doctorate in moral philosophy from Oxford University and a law degree from Harvard, was a Luce Scholar at the National Cheng Chi University in Taiwan in the late 1970s, and served previously on the faculties at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the University of Virginia’s … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training