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The Elusiveness of Leadership
When your correspondent entered the leadership field in the early nineties, not long after starting work as a middle manager, the economy was rebounding from a recession and a new buzz around leadership was emerging.
The Next Big Thing In Business Education
Everyone is looking to start-ups in Silicon Valley to find the next big thing in the business world, but what if the next big thing in business education isn鈥檛 coming from a start-up or even a big name school in the US, but from established institutions in Europe.
Schools of Thought in Strategic Management
Strategic management focuses solely on the process a business goes through in creating a sustainable competitive advantage. Just as there鈥檚 usually more than one option for solving most business problems, there鈥檚 more than one school of thought for creating a strategic management plan. Some of the most commonly implemented by both large and small businesses are those identified by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel in 1998.
Ontario co-op movement could use a legislative leg-up
Despite member-controlled and community-centric businesses gaining much appeal and generating billions in revenue, laws that govern co-ops in Ontario are strikingly outdated and restrictive.
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Rethinking Management Education And Its Models
In听their book, The Business School In The Twenty-first Century, Howard Thomas, Peter Lorange and Jagdish Sheth share insights on designing the business school of the future and how to make it work.
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The default mode for managers needs a reset
Grayson Perry, the transvestite artist, took aim last month at "default man": the cabal of white, middle-class, heterosexual, middle-aged males who run the British establishment.
The fall of the Berlin Wall鈥攁 triumph for capitalism?
The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago; hence we are now hearing a good deal about it. We are not, however, hearing much about the adverse impact this has been having on so many lives ever since. While the collapse of the wall freed the East Berliners of the shackles of communism, vast numbers of people around the world have since been shackled by another dogma, thanks to a misunderstanding of what brought that wall down.听
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New building to give Sheridan room to grow
College degree programs in business are proving popular with students, with one Ontario institution expanding its footprint to meet demand.
Sheridan College has announced plans for a 220,000-square-foot building to open in fall 2016 at its Mississauga campus, named for the municipality鈥檚 long-serving and just-retired mayor Hazel McCallion. The new building will house an expanded business faculty and other disciplines.
Henry Mintzberg receives 麻豆传媒网站 Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Learning
Henry Mintzberg has received the 2014 麻豆传媒网站 Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Learning for his extraordinary contributions to teaching and learning at the University over the last four decades.
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Trium tops FT Executive MBA programme rankings 2014
For the first time in six years, a new challenger has topped the FT鈥檚 ranking of executive MBA programmes.
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No le gustan los MBA. No le gusta George W. Bush. No le gustan los disparatados bonus de los ejecutivos. No le gusta el enorme poder de las grandes corporaciones en nuestras vidas. Y sostiene, con alarma, que se est谩n dando algunas condiciones en Estados Unidos similares a las de la Alemania e Italia de principios de los a帽os treinta del siglo pasado.
