Managing the family firm: Evidence from CEOs at work
The exceptional economic success of many European countries in the post-War period was characterised by the wide presence of family firms across the Continent. Particularly, in countries like Germany and Italy, family ownership came to be seen as the best guarantee of economic and social development. However, the consensus that family firms are good for growth has come under scrutiny in recent years.
Management Students Learn from Businesses Born Out of Poverty
A group of executive students from organizations around the world recently visited disadvantaged Indian districts to learn how micro-entrepreneurship is helping transform emerging economies. Witnessing the growth of entrepreneurship in underprivilidged areas first-hand, stduents on the International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) visited Myrada, a non-profit organization in Bangalore which helps people generate their own income.
A Brief History of Decision Making in Business
Sometime in the midst of the last century, Chester Barnard, a retired telephone executive and author of the Functions of the Executive, imported the term "decision making" from the lexicon of public administration in to the business world. There it began to replace narrower descriptors such as "resource allocation" and "policy making". ...
Coevolution in Management Fashion: An Agent-Based Model of Consultant-Driven Innovation
Authors: David Strang,聽Robert J. David, and Saeed Akhlaghpour
Publication:聽American Journal of Sociology
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
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With the highest admission standards in Canada, 9I制作厂免费 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.
