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- How to Teach Business Ethics, Unethically
- If business ethics can be taught - and I have yet to read a convincing argument that they cannot - how should such an important lesson be taught? In business school, perhaps? That would seem to make a whole lot of sense. Business schools seem to be...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Five Hard Truths About the MBA
- If you're counting on an MBA to help advance your career, new evidence might make you think twice. Hard...
- Articles 2007-10-16
- What Executives Really Think of MBAs
- Outside of the interview: Managers reveal when — or if — they hire MBAs. Value the Program, Not the Degree “When I have hired young people from a great program like Babson, I often see that they have acquired a...
- Articles 2007-10-16
- Entrepreneurship ââ¬" Book-Smarts or Gut Instinct?
- In my role as President of Stacy Blackman Consulting, advising on the MBA admissions process, I speak daily to clients trying to articulate their goals. Turns out, “entrepreneurship†is a very popular career path. When I hear this as a goal, I ask key questions: “What do you want to do?â€, “What problems...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- B-School Buzz: Entrepreneurship and Negotiating in Shaky Times, Doing Business in Russia, Money for McCombs, and More
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Will and Beverly O'Hara have pledged $16 million to the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, the largest individual gift to the school since Red McCombs donated his name and $50 million eight years ago. It may be small...
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Did MBAs Contribute to the Credit Crisis?
- As the financial crisis finger-pointing continues, eyes are turning to the business schools. What part did they play in the meltdown? And is now the time to re-think their own assumptions? As Simon Caulkin observes, it's not just the economics-dominated MBA that's now seen as unsustainable. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- USC Marshall Prof, Zappos.com to Offer Free Download of Major Business Book
- Professor Dave Logan of USC's Marshall School of Business has teamed with Zappos.com to make a free audio version of his groundbreaking 2008 business book "Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization" available exclusively at the online retailer. Since hitting bookstores last February, the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Leadership Education in the Era of Disruption: What Can Business Schools Offer?
- The paper addresses some of the dilemmas that business schools face in their attempts to teach, in conventional educational settings, practices such as leadership that are profoundly informed by experience. In the initial section of the paper, the recognition of relationship as the primary medium of education is advocated and...
- White papers 2005-07-04
- Deep Links: Business School Students' Perceptions Of The Role Of Law And Ethics In Business
- To better understand how business school students view the relationship between law and business, we used the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique ZMET to elicit the unconscious thoughts and feelings of twelve students about the role of law in starting and running a business in the United States. Our study revealed...
- White papers 2006-06-07
- Solid Advice from Stanford GSB Leadership Coach
- Leadership coach Ed Batista from Stanford's Graduate School of Business had an insightful post last week on three things you probably won't learn in b-school. With a major assist from his colleague Corey Ford, former GSB student and a fellow and lecturer at the Stanford Institute of Design, Batista shares...
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Can You Teach Ethics to MBAs?
- Maybe, but research suggests they need a lot of practice. Take our quiz and see how your moral compass measures up. In the spring of 2009, when Bernie Madoff?s massive scam still felt raw and shocking, a few members of Harvard B-School?s...
- Articles 2009-10-19
- 5 Personal Core Competencies for the Real Business World
- A Harvard professor named 5 Personal Core Competencies for the 21st Century that demonstrates that some business school academics live in their own world, and that world bears little resemblance to the real business world. As one commentor put it, "what a load of pseudo-intellectual twaddle." by Steve Tobak
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Integration May Be Key to Fixing B-Schools, Says Heineman
- The idea that business schools need fixing has gained a near consensus post-economic crisis, but exactly how to fix them has been a matter of much debate. I recently spoke about the issue with Ben Heineman, Jr., a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Biz Schools Are Too Much Like Banks
- Business schools should stop operating as if they were selling products and take a leaf from modern businesses by deriving revenues from working in collaboration with the customer. The problem: Business schools tend to rely on a ‘banking' model of education. They treat knowledge as a kind...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Are B-School Grads Ready for a Greener Future?
- The Find: With green issues increasingly on the agenda in Washington, one blog argues that business schools need to better prepare managers to handle the threats and opportunities presented by the rising tide of green awareness and regulation. The Source: A post on the Columbia Business School...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
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- Joel M. Podolny to lead Yale School of Management.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 April 2005-YALE UNIVERSITY: Joel M. Podolny to lead Yale School of ManagementC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26042005 New Haven, Conn.-- President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Harvard scholar Joel M. Podolny as Dean of the Yale School...
- Research articles 2005-04-26
- Podolny to lead Yale School of Management
- President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Harvard scholar Joel M. Podolny as Dean of the Yale School of Management beginning July 1.Podolny is currently a Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management and Director of Research at the Harvard Business School and Professor of Sociology in the Harvard...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Too much of a good thing?(variety is always good a research by business school professors)
- A recent research paper co-authored by professors John Gourville of the Harvard Business School and Dilip Soman of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management dispels the notion that variety is always good. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Commenting in an...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- The Business School in European Perspective. (book reviews)
- During the 1990s, there has been an increasing interest in comparative research on the history of business schools and management education. This publication is a useful contribution to this new literature, even if it is just an edited occasional paper of four conference papers and lacks...
- Research articles 1997-10-01
- B-School Buzz: Riding Out Downturn, MBAs to India, London B-School Podcast, and More
- As jobs shrink in the troubled economies of the West, some of their top business schools are increasingly networking with India-based alumni to explore opportunities. Indian companies are still averaging double-digit growth and the broader economy, despite a slowdown, is predicted to grow 7 percent this year. That’s why many...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
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