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Stacy BlackmanStacy Sukov Blackman is president of Stacy Blackman Consulting, where she consults on MBA admissions. She earned her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Stacy serves on the Board of Directors...
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Women In the Workplace: Happiness Is Not the Issue
For the past two weeks, I've posted highlights from my recent conversation with Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth professor Ella Edmondson Bell. This week she shares her response to the question, "Why are women unhappy at work?" by Stacy Blackman
Tags: Workplace, Women, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-11-10
Hold On to Top Employees By Making Them Marketable
When is the last time you gave serious thought to keeping your top performers engaged and happy? A recent article from the MIT Sloan Management Review warns managers that once conditions improve, the number of executives leaving their companies for new opportunities historically spike. by Stacy Blackman
Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-11-09
Business Must Protect Consumers' Privacy, Or Government Will
New research from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University highlights the need for industry to set better standards for protecting consumers' private information -- or else risk having the government impose its own regulations. Technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification RFID are drawing questions about consumer...
Tags: Government, Privacy, Julie Manning Magid, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-10
Why IT-Savvy Managers Boost Profit Margins
What's your relationship with technology? If you're the type of manager who thinks it's something best left to the IT department, the strength of your profit margins may depend on a change of attitude. At least, that's the message of a new book by MIT Sloan School...
Tags: Information Technology, Profit Margin, Strategy, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-09
More on Obama and Business: Follow-up Interview With Robert Frank
While many of my Tuesday interview posts have drawn varied reactions from you, the readers, none has caused quite as much uproar as the interview I ran a month and a half ago with Dr. Robert Frank, professor of management and economics at Cornell's Johnson School of Management and author...
Tags: Professor, Bond, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-07
How Storytelling Can Help Your Company
Remember that creative writing class you took your senior year of college because you wanted an easy elective? It turns out that dusting off the notebook where you wrote about plots and characters might be a way to help you lead your company. Organizational storytelling is slowly but surely...
Tags: Benefits, Business Intelligence, Costco Wholesale Corp., Data Management, Enterprise Software, Finance, Free Trade, Human Resources, Knowledge Management, Management, Software, Stacy Blackman, Strategy
Blog posts 2009-07-06
Three Places to Focus Market Research During a Recession
In the current economy, market research presents many companies with a catch-22: you need market research to attract new customers, but you need customers to pay for market research. In a recent post on his Harvard Business blog Marketing Knowhow, Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes...
Tags: Brand, Market Research, Recession, John Quelch, Marketing Research, Marketing, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-02
Three Tips for High Performance, High Integrity
Last week, Harvard's Ben Heineman, Jr., shared his thoughts on improving business school education, namely by better integrating the skills taught in other professional schools such as law and public policy. He believes that doing so will produce better business leaders than many of those currently in power: The...
Tags: Integrity, High-performance, Leadership, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-06-30
Want to Boost Creativity? Move to Another Country
Did you take advantage of a study abroad program while you were in college? If so, you may be more creative than those who didn't. According to research appearing in the May issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, people who have lived in foreign...
Tags: Professor, Researcher, Creativity, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-06-29
Jack Welch Adding Prestige to Online MBA; Can it Compare With the Classroom?
While many professionals contemplating going back for an MBA are drawn to the convenience of an online degree, some worry that their title won't have the weight of one accompanied by the words Harvard or Stanford. However, former General Electric Chief Executive Jack Welch plans to change...
Tags: Jack Welch, MBA, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-06-26
Sustainability and the Base of the Pyramid: Why it Matters to the U.S.
Most of you reading this are fortunate enough to reside at the top of the income pyramid, living and working in the United States or other highly developed countries. At the base of the pyramid reside people of developing countries, where access to things we take for granted in high...
Tags: Sustainability, Pyramid, Income, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-06-25
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...
Tags: Ethics, Business School, Integration, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-06-23
Three Ways to Encourage Internal Whistle-blowing
Remember the movie Silkwood? In the 1983 drama, Meryl Streep portrayed the real-life Karen Silkwood, who suffered radiation poisoning thanks to lax safety standards at the plant where she worked and was preparing to take her story to The New York Times when she died in a car crash under...
Tags: Financial, Training, Silkwood, Harassment, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Finance, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-06-22
Four Tips for Managing Dispersed Teams
I recently posted an article about businesses struggling to manage their stay-at-home workers. If lack of face time with individual staff members is difficult, then imagine having to lead a team of workers who live in different cities, perhaps even different countries, and have never met in person. How do...
Tags: Team, MIT Sloan Management Review, Team Management, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-13
The Truth About Managing Boomers and Vets
Last week, I shared tips from my interview with writer and speaker Nancy Ahlrichs about managing multiple generations, which she recently lectured about at Washington University in St. Louis' Olin Business School. The last installment focused on leading Generations X and Y, so this week we'll look at a few...
Tags: Veteran, Speaker, Ahlrichs, Conway, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-08-04
Obama and Business: A Few More Responses From Professor Frank
Last week, I shared Cornell professor Robert Frank's responses to reader comments regarding his views on President Obama's relationship with business. Here are a few more excerpts from our conversation. BNET: Some readers brought up bank and car company bailouts and criticized the Obama administration for thinking...
Tags: Barack Obama, Administration, Taxes, Government, Workforce Management, Personal Finance, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-14
The Difference Between a Manager and a Leader is Innovation, says Ross Dean
When I'm not surfing the web for the latest news from b-schools, sometimes I'm just surfing the web. A site I really enjoy is Big Think, which features interviews with thoughtful people across many disciplines: business leaders, authors, actors, activists and others share their ideas on the big and not-so-big...
Tags: Innovation, Leader, Dolan, Leadership, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-08-03
Why Humor and Emails Don't Mix
When you send an email to your employees or colleagues, do you think that humor might help a tough message go down a little easier? Do you try to include a few punch lines, thinking you're breaking up the monotony of their day? If the answer is...
Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-31
B-school Research: What's the Point?
Matt Symonds wrote a thought-provoking article for Forbes.com last week, questioning the necessity of b-schools' academic research. Like many businesses and institutions, b-schools are looking for ways to cut costs in the current economy; given the expense of conducting research, it seems like an obvious place to trim. Symonds quotes Mauro...
Tags: Academic Research, B-school, Symonds, Professional Development, Financial Accounting, Career, Finance, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-30
The Truth About Managing Generations X and Y
All of them are obsessed with technology. None of them have any company loyalty. These are but two of the workplace stereotypes about Generation X (born between 1965 and 1976) and Generation Y (born between 1977 and 1986). Stereotypes aside, what makes these 23 to 44 year olds give their best...
Tags: Generation X, Generation Y, Worker, Nancy Ahlrichs, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-07-28
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