The bitter truth about entrepreneurial success
If you have taken a class in entrepreneurship recently from the top business schools of the world, chances are that many of the lessons taught were not based on sound knowledge. Worse, it is likely that some of the content was nothing but platitudes, good wishes, or simply illusions: mediocre knowledge sold at the price of gold.
One last look at 2014: 成人VR视频鈥檚 year in review
From naming Michael A. Meighen as the University鈥檚 new Chancellor in January to having two students earning Rhodes Scholarships in December, 2014 was yet another eventful year for 成人VR视频. As we head into the final weeks of 2014, the Reporter looks back on the year that was, highlighting some of the key happenings over the past 12 months in words and pictures.
Enter the GROOC: Better Than a MOOC?
Now we can call a MOOC for what it is: Missed Opportunity for Online Collaboration. Otherwise聽known as the Massive Online Open Course, the MOOC possesses a major downside 鈥 students get flexibility and independence in their studies, and even the聽freedom to learn 鈥 usually for free 鈥 while wearing nothing but last week鈥檚聽underwear,聽but usually work without the benefit of team-based collaboration.
Why Every Agency Needs a Chief Management Officer
Forty years ago, Henry Mintzberg, of 成人VR视频, asked the simple question: 鈥淲hat do managers do?鈥 To Mintzberg managers were not just corporate CEOs but also 鈥渧ice presidents, bishops, foremen, hockey coaches and prime ministers鈥濃攑eople with 鈥渇ormal authority鈥 for some kind of 鈥渙rganizational unit.鈥
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.
Social Business Academia Report 2014
The Social Business Academia Report 2014 gives a comprehensive overview about many of the social business initiatives that take place at universities around the world. Social businesses aim to solve social problems in a financially self-sustainable way.
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.
成人VR视频 celebrates top teachers
With the highest admission standards in Canada, 成人VR视频 attracts many of the brightest students in the country and from around the world. Being entrusted to guide these exceptional students is a huge responsibility, which is why the Principal鈥檚 Prize for Excellence in Teaching was established in 2000 to celebrate teachers.
Rethinking Management Education And Its Models
In聽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.
驴Queremos una universidad burocr谩tica o innovadora?
En los 煤ltimos a帽os hemos asistido a una serie de cambios en la universidad espa帽ola, entre los que destaca su creciente burocratizaci贸n. Si bien es verdad que cuando hace una d茅cada se propusieron e introdujeron medidas que subrayaban la meritocracia, o promulgaban mejorar y normalizar en cierta medida los procesos de trabajo a trav茅s de organismos como la ANECA, en general estas fueron muy bien recibidas por la comunidad universitaria.
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.聽
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