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February 2010
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Why B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs To Fail - Sramana Mitra
Article of Forbes, 02.26.10, 06:00 AM EST
Business schools need to focus on bootstrapping, not only raising money from VCs.
(Previous post on BizDeansTalk about Sramana Mitra, 28 July 2009)
...
In fact, unless you are teaching at Stanford or MIT, or a handful of institutions with similar access to the financial community, you better come to terms with the fact that your realistic path to grooming successful entrepreneurs is through bootstrapping. So don't mislead the students, don't set them up with unrealistic expectations.
Don't set them up for failure.
(P.S.
Friday, 26 February 2010
Thursday, 25 February 2010
The Economist - Best online MBAs 2010 - IE Business School rated the best in the world
IE Business School has the best online MBA rated by The Economist - "excellent"
"we have concentrated on those programmes offered at the institutions which feature in The Economist’s ranking of the 100 full-time programmes"
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Distance-learning MBA programmes are resoundingly successful. We take an in-depth look at the sector.
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- How a distance-learning MBA works
- IE Business School in Spain has been running its distance-learning programme, the International Executive MBA, for ten years. It is aimed at executives with around seven years’ work experience—three of those managerial. The MBA lasts for 13 months and students are spread across the globe. Gamaliel Martinez, the director of the programme, gives the inside track
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Conference: Paid Content 2010
http://paidcontent.org/topic/paidcontent-2010/
Feb 22, 21, 20, 19, 2010
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Monday, 22 February 2010
Interview of Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, by McKinsey Quarterly
Sunday, 21 February 2010
WHY CEOS FAIL
WHY CEOS FAIL June 1999
It's rarely for lack of smarts or vision. Most unsuccessful CEOs stumble because of one simple, fatal shortcoming...
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University - BroadBand report 333 pages
Download Berkman_Center_Broadband_Final_Report (333 pages)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/broadband_review_final
Next
Generation Connectivity
Berkman Center releases final broadband study for the FCC
February 16, 2010
The Berkman Center is pleased to announce that its independent review for the FCC, Next Generation Connectivity: A review of broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world, has been finalized. The Final Report was submitted to the FCC today, February 16. For access to the report and a selection of primary data sets, visit:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/broadband
Japan is the best:
Companies:
Nielsen survey - Changing Models: A Global Perspective on Paying for Content Online
Post of Nielsen blog, February 16, 2010.
Will consumers pay for online news and entertainment they now get
for free?
Download Changing
Models: A Global Perspective on Paying for Content Online (12 pages)
Nielsen asked more than 27,000 consumers across 52 countries, and the answer is a definite “maybe.” As expected, the vast majority (85%) prefer that free content remain free. Yet there are opportunities to be found in the details. Indeed, when asked to focus on specific types of content, survey participants are more willing to at least consider paying for particular categories, especially if they have done so before.
Will Pay / Won’t Pay
Online content for which consumers are most likely to pay—or have
already paid—are those they normally pay for offline, including
theatrical movies, music, games and select videos such as current
television shows. These tend to be professionally produced at
comparatively high costs.
Friday, 19 February 2010
Steve Rubel: Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises - Social Media and PR Still Win
Steve Rubel post of February 8, 2010 (first paragraphs shown)
Last week Edelman, my employer, published our tenth annual Trust Barometer study. You can read the full report here. One of the more juicy statistics that Advertising Age and others noted is that trust in peers surprisingly dropped dramatically from 47% to 27%.
"This is bad news for PR agencies because social media has been the ‘point of the spear’ for so many firms. This is what brings in new business."
If you dig into the report, you'll note that the Trust data shows that we're desperately seeking out experts. This is unsurprising given the torrent of information we're all contending with. We're self-curating and in the process seeking out higher authorities.
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
2010 Aspen International MBA Case Competition
Monday, 15 February 2010
Essays from GFME Board Members (PDF 37 pages)- From Challenge to Change: Business Schools in the Wake of Financial Crisis
The collected papers bring together deans and directors from the UK, Canada, USA, Poland, Spain and Thailand, as well as the directors and presidents of the world’s leading business school accreditation bodies, the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). It has been put together under the leadership and guidance of the Global Foundation for Management Education (GFME), an organizational collaboration between AACSB and EFMD. It is published by the world’s leading scholarly business and management publisher, Emerald Group Publishing.
"Do it well": An Appreciation for the Life of Martin Luther King Jr. (Dean Bruner, Darden Bschool)
Post of Robert F. Bruner, Dean, Darden School of Business, January 17, 2010
A … challenge that the new age brings to each of us is that of achieving excellency in our various fields of endeavor. In the new age many doors will be opening to us that were not opened in the past, and the great challenge which we confront is to be prepared to enter these doors as they open…
In the new age we will be forced to compete with people of all races and nationalities. Therefore, we cannot aim merely to be good Negro teachers, good Negro doctors, good Negro ministers, good Negro skilled laborers. We must set out to do a good job, irrespective of race and do it so well that nobody could do it better.
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. Even if it does not fall in the category of one of the so-called big professions, do it well. As one college president said, “A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well.”- Martin Luther King, Jr., December, 1956.[1] ...
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Saturday, 13 February 2010
2010 Index of Silicon Valley (76 pages)
Download 2010 Index of Silicon Valley (76 pages)
The Silicon Valley Index has been telling the Silicon Valley story since 1995. Released early every year, the indicators measure the strength of our economy and the health of our community—highlighting challenges and providing an analytical foundation for leadership and decision-making.
Friday, 12 February 2010
HR’s transformation through the Noughties
Article of PersonnelToday, January 5th, 2010.
Over the past 10 years, the HR world has undergone great change. It has had to cope with the impact of recession, a raft of employment regulations, and found itself outsourcing HR activities. So has HR changed for the better over the past decade? Is it taken more seriously as a profession, and how rosy is the outlook for the future? Helen Gilbert speaks to industry experts to find out.
Management Education: The Best Is Yet To Come
Santiago Iñiguez de Onzono: Dean, Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (…) it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…" These familiar lines of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", one of the most celebrated literary openings ever written, seem very applicable today, as they were to the French Revolution – the context of the novel – and even to Dickens’ own times.
Thursday, 11 February 2010
A study of leadership in the Canadian workplace (November through December 2009)
Complete 31 page report www.psychometrics.com/docs/
Psychometrics Canada, a leading assessment publisher and consultant for the development and selection of people in business, government and education, today announced the results of its study of leadership in the Canadian workplace. In many cases strong leadership has resulted in dramatic effects on work engagement, team performance and innovation. However, the report also shows that poor leadership has negative effects on employee morale, project success and working relationships.
The study conducted during November and December 2009, which involved a poll of 517 human resources (HR) professionals across Canada, confirms that leadership is seen as an important area of organizational functioning and development. The majority (63.2%) see leaders as having a lot of influence over their organizations’ success, with only 2.5% reporting that leaders have very little influence. The most common effects of good leadership are increased motivation (85.5%), improved working relationships (85.1%), higher team performance (80.7%), better solutions to problems (68.9%), and major innovations (41.6%).
TED2010 is happening now in California.
Right now, a lineup of amazing speakers and attendees have gathered for four days of TED in Long Beach and Palm Springs, CA. Read up on it now. And stay tuned for a few straight-from-the-stage TEDTalks, coming later this week …
Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Predicts Continued Mobile Data Traffic Surge. More Mobile-Ready Devices and Mobile Video to Fuel 39-Fold Global Growth from 2009-2014
San Jose, Calif., Feb. 9, 2010 – Cisco today announced the results of
the Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Forecast
for 2009-2014.
The research projects that annual global mobile data traffic will reach 3.6 exabytes per month or an annual run rate of 40 exabytes by 2014. Such a figure equates to a 39-fold increase from 2009 to 2014, or a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 108 percent. (Click on Regions growth graph)
Two major global trends are driving this increase-the proliferation of
mobile-ready devices and widespread mobile video content consumption. By
2014, there could be over 5 billion personal devices connecting to
mobile networks – and billions more machine-to-machine nodes. Mobile
video is projected by the study to represent 66 percent of all mobile
data traffic by 2014.
...By 2014, more than 400 million of the world's Internet users could access the network solely through a mobile connection.
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Sports Management and Marketing Education Requirements + Nielsen Report: The Changing Face of Sports Media January 2010 etc.
Preparation for a career in sports marketing or management is similar to preparation for any professional career. Typically, the more education, the better.
MBA Preferred
According to a 2004 Turnkey Sports Poll that surveyed 400 sports industry executives, a traditional Master of Business Administration is the favored degree by executives in pro and college sports when hiring a senior executive. But, a variety of degrees received votes:
- Traditional MBA, 41.4%.
- Law degree, 18.5%.
- Sports MBA, 16.7%.
- Undergraduate business degree, 17.9%.
- No response, 5.6%.
Of those executives polled, just 19.8% had a sports-specific college degree while 78.4% did not. (1.9% did not respond.) ...
(Incidentally: Last minute applications to http://master-sports.ie.edu)
Download "The Changing Face of Sports Media January 2010" (PDF 16 pages) (very quick signup) from:
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports
Other Nielsens Sports ratings and rankings
Television ratings Week of January 25, 2010 (NFL PRO BOWL No1 on Cable)
Super Bowl XLIV: Battle for Media ROI As we gear up for Super Bowl XLIV, consumer expression and cross-platform integration have created a powerful dynamic hovering over the largest single-spot ad spend on record. This webinar will take an in-depth look at measuring the impact of paid, blended and earned media through the lens of the Super Bowl, and also how brand advertisers can create higher degrees of engagement and conversation around their campaigns.
Monday, 08 February 2010
Forecast shows jobs in Europe becoming more skills- and knowledge-intensive
A new forecast on the demand and supply of skills up to 2020 foresees a steady rise in knowledge- and skill-intensive occupations in Europe. The forecast was presented today by Cedefop, the EU's reference centre for vocational education and training, at the European Commission conference 'New Skills for New Jobs: Action Now'.
Those with higher qualifications will clearly be in the best position to take advantage of these developments. But the European economy will continue to need a broad basis of skills at intermediate level, especially those acquired within vocational education and training.
Sunday, 07 February 2010
American Society of Magazine Editors "44th Annual National Magazine Awards Winners" + Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers 2009
The 2009 National Magazine Award winners are:
· Reader’s Digest for General Excellence (over 2,000,000 circulation)
· Field & Stream for General Excellence (1,000,000 to 2,000,000 circulation)
· Wired for General Excellence (500,000 to 1,000,000 circulation)
· Texas Monthly for General Excellence (250,000 to 500,000 circulation)
· Foreign Policy for General Excellence (100,000 to 250,000 circulation)
· Print for General Excellence (under 100,000 circulation)
The
FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
Wikipedia entry: "Foreign Policy" is a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970... Under the stewardship of editor-in-chief Moisés Naím, Foreign Policy evolved from an academic quarterly in the 1990s to a bimonthly glossy, winning the 2009, 2007, and 2003 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. It is published by The Washington Post Company in Washington, D.C., USA. Its topics include global politics, economics, integration and ideas.
Saturday, 06 February 2010
Friday, 05 February 2010
George Soros: Open Society, the Financial Crisis, and the Way Ahead - Central European University
The Lecture Series Open Society Institute chairman and founder George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a five-part lecture series recorded at Central European University, October 26-30, 2009. The lectures are the culmination of a lifetime of practical and philosophical reflection. Soros discusses his general theory of reflexivity and its application to financial markets, providing insights into the recent financial crisis. The third and fourth lectures examine the concept of open society, which has guided Soros’s global philanthropy, as well as the potential for conflict between capitalism and open society. The closing lecture focuses on the way ahead, examining the increasingly important economic and political role that China will play in the future.
Thursday, 04 February 2010
Warren Buffett & Bill Gates at Columbia School of Business
This is the unofficial transcript
of the CNBC Town Hall event Warren
Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great, taped Thursday,
November 12, 2009 at Columbia
University in New York City. The transcript is also available
for downloading PDF.
Educating a New Generation of Entrepreneurs: The Best Anti-Poverty Program Around (Huffington Post) + Thomas Friedman's view
The Huffington Post. Amy Rosen, President & CEO, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Posted: February 2, 2010 (bio)
...
My organization, NFTE, provides entrepreneurship education programs to young people from low income communities. We see exceptionally smart and gifted kids whose talents would otherwise go undiscovered. More often than not, these kids aren't given a chance because they are not taught the basic knowledge necessary to find their own pathway to success. Taking children from low income areas and helping them to tap into their potential helps combat poverty and crime while breeding a new generation of entrepreneurs, strengthening the very backbone of our (US) nation.
In his January 23rd New York Times column entitled, "More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs," Tom Friedman emphasized the vital role that entrepreneurs and innovation will play in lifting the United States out of economic turmoil. In the article he kindly points to NFTE as an example of a program that will help make the difference. Due to the support of people like Tom, NFTE and organizations like us are seeing more support in the public debate about education for the kind of work we do. (also mentions NationalLabDay.org)...
(Friedman in same article: "In November, a documentary movie — “Ten9Eight” — was released that tracked a dozen students all the way through to the finals of the NFTE competition. Obama should arrange for this movie to be shown in every classroom in America. It is the most inspirational, heartwarming film you will ever see".)
(Friedman said in The World is Flat: "Endeavor was formed for the purpose of promoting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Its basic model is to link up small and midsize businesses with seasoned entrepreneurs so that little guys and gals can get the advice and contacts they need to grow their companies into bigger businesses that can employ more people -- the best antipoverty program of all."
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Monday, 01 February 2010
Convergence of Latin American, US and Spanish Media cultures? a Telefónica study
Structured Procrastination
The
Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity Marc Andreessen's post of October 12, 2009.
(for lesser mortals read "100 Awesome Organization Posts Start Your New Semester")
...The gist of Structured Procrastination is that you should never fight the tendency to procrastinate -- instead, you should use it to your advantage in order to get other things done.
Generally in the course of a day, there is something you have to do that you are not doing because you are procrastinating.
While you're procrastinating, just do lots of other stuff instead.
As John says, "The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance. Tasks that seem most urgent and important are on top. But there are also worthwhile tasks to perform lower down on the list. Doing these tasks becomes a way of not doing the things higher up on the list. With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen. Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done."
Reading John's essay was one of the single most profound moments of my entire life.
...
I can get so much done while I am avoiding... I can barely believe it.
In fact, that's what's happening right now.
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