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The Real Value Of Happiness At Work - An interview with Srikumar S. Rao (Forbes)

 Article of Forbes, 28 June, 2010

...he counseled students on how to discover their unique purpose, creativity and route to happiness through group work and a philosophical perspective. His latest book, published this year, is Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful--No Matter What.

Forbes: Why is happiness at work important?

Srikumar S. Rao: I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. 

GE Marketing/Sales Leadership Program July 11th – 16th - "Experienced Commercial Leadership Program" (ECLP)

GE’s leadership programs are focused on developing innovative approaches to leadership development for its emerging leaders in sales and marketing.  The program is for MBA students and experienced professionals who are interested in working in GE’s commercial and sales functions.

 

The week of July 11^th – 16^th GE will bring over 300 MBA students and experienced professionals participating in its Experienced Commercial Leadership Program (ECLP) to Greenwich, Connecticut for a week-long conference dedicated to training. Jeff Immelt, Beth Comstock, GE’s Chief Marketing Officer, Aparna Ramaswamy, Senior Human Resources Manager, and other GE executives will be in attendance during various parts of the conference.

 

ECLP, established in 2002, is a two-year rotational training program that prepares MBA graduates and experienced professionals for GE leadership roles in marketing and sales. It’s an example of why GE is consistently ranked among MBA students as offering one of the best rotational programs (conducted by Universum Survey).

 

ECLP consists of three, eight-month rotational assignments, which allows participants the opportunity to take significant roles in the leadership, management and advancement of the program. Participants also have the opportunity to work with colleagues across businesses and from around the globe to lead change initiatives. There are nearly 800 ECLPs (current and alumni); nine senior executives at GE are program graduates. The purpose of the week-long ECLP conference in July is to train GE’s emerging leaders in the commercial and marketing business by combining core skills growth, leadership development and the ECLP culture through speakers, networking opportunities and training courses. This is a part of the six weeks of training every ECLP receives over the course of two years.

Notre Dame B-School Dean: "Companies Must Lead by Example In Sustainability"

Post of Forbes blog, June 25th, 2010.

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University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business Dean Carolyn Woo brought up the need for the corporate world to embrace the Principles for Responsible Management Education(PRME). Developed in 2007 by an international group of 60 deans, university presidents and business school administrators, these six principles seek to lay the foundation for a global platform for responsible management education.

Acknowledging the increasing corporate consciousness of sustainability, Dr. Woo chose to highlight the academic paradigm for business schools by putting forward three requests for companies. Besides resonating with students and informed professionals, these questions should serve as pointers for companies as they expand their CSR initiatives and begin realizing that recruitment is an inescapable part of the equation:

1) Advocate for us: Stating that PRME had the potential to set forth a curriculum change at business schools toward building generations of conscious leaders and entrepreneurs, she asked companies for their support. "Send endorsement letters, reach out personally and endorse the principles for responsible management," she said.

2) Be explicit in your inquiry about CSR and sustainability issues in the curriculum...

Changes to MBA admissions test replace essay with analysis

Click here for the article of US Today, June 26, 2010.

The Graduate Management Admission Test — the dominant test for M.B.A. admissions, but one that is facing competition — will soon have a new section, designed to test the ability of would-be business students to analyze multiple kinds of information...

On Rafael Rangel Sostman leaving his post of 25 years as rector of Tec de Monterrey

Rafael Rangel Sostmann, leaves his post at Tec de Monterrey, (91,000+ students), June 21st, 2010 and will continue until successor is found.

Article of El Milenio (In Spanish)

Awards

1993 - Distinguished Service Citation, from College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1994 - Honorary Doctoral Degree of Law, from Florida International University.
2001 - Presidential Medallion, by the University of North Carolina.
2001 - Honorary Bachelor of Applied Business and Entrepreneurship International Business Degree, from Mount Royal College.
2003 - Honorary Doctoral Degree of Law, from University of British Columbia.
2004 - Honorary Doctoral Degree of Humane Letters, from Arizona State University.
2006 - Gold Medallion Award, from Instituto de Empresa, Madrid.
2008 - Honorary Doctoral Degree of Humanities, from Georgetown University.

Vittana a world where anyone can go to college

www.vittana.org , (On Techcrunch)

Book: 'Financing Higher Education Worldwide'

From Inside Higher Education, June 14, 2010.

Who pays for higher education? Whether talking about the government role or the student responsibility, the question is controversial all over the world, and many policies are in flux. Financing Higher Education Worldwide,a new book from the Johns Hopkins University Press, surveys the globe for the trends and their implications

Nitin Nohria - "Employee Motivation: A Powerful New Model" (featured on HBR)

Nitin Nohria will become the next Dean of Harvard Business School on July 1. He is currently Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and co-chair of the Leadership Initiative.

Must-Read: Employee Motivation: A Powerful New Model

Meet the dean: California dreamin’ for leader at Berkeley (FT)

Published in The Financial Times, Linda Anderson: June 21 2010

There are few – if any – male deans of business schools who sport an earring, but Richard Lyons ( @richlyons), dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, is unafraid of breaking the mould.

Although his background is soundly academic – he is a professor of finance, a graduate of the school’s business programme and has a PhD in economics from MIT – he also has experience of business, with a two-year stint on Wall Street as chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs.

With experience of business and academia under his belt and an innovative approach to deans’ fashion, it was perhaps inevitable that when he became head of the business school in July 2008, he was keen to instigate change – and quickly.

IBM Study: Education Lags in Preparing Students for Globalization and Sustainability

PR Newswire, June 17, 2010

...This first-of-its-kind survey -- which asked university students the same questions posed to global business leaders in IBM's 2010 Global CEO Study -- finds that both students and CEOs believe creativity is the most important emerging competency of future leaders; and reveals clear confidence about the ability of information technologies to address looming issues in business or society...

Conducted through IBM's Institute for Business Value, the Study, "Inheriting a Complex World: Future Leaders Envision Sharing the Planet," reflects the consolidated view of more than 3,600 students in more than 40 countries.

India debates bill on regulation of the entry and operations of foreign educational institutions

The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010, Introduced on May 3, 2010.

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Standing Committee Invites Suggestions, Times of India, Jun 16, 2010

Spain, no. 1. for the reception of European Erasmus students 2008-2009

http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.htm
June 21, 2010.

Book: "The People First" by Bernardo Kliksberg

Wikipedia entry

His most recent work is the international bestseller "The People First", coauthored with the Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Amartya Sen. (Editorial Planeta/Deusto, Madrid, 2008, ISBN 842342589) (Mr. Kliksberg was also today at IE Business School annual alumni forum).

More M.B.A. Graduates Will Get Jobs in 2010 - U.S. News

Article published June 18, 2010.

25 Ideas To Change The World - Forbes-India brainstorming.

Special Report edited by S. Srinivasan and Peter Griffin - June 15, 2010

Including proposals by

Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School Professor and

Yasheng Huang, Professor, Political Economy and International Management, MIT

Social Media is the 3rd Era of the Web - charts

Post of Social Fresh, June 15th, 2010

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"Some Bosses Live in a Fool's Paradise" - Harvard Business Review

Blog post - June 3, 2010.

Pepsi Refesh Project - millions to fund ideas.

www.refresheverything.com

Education Category

Tuck Book: "Beating The Commodity Trap"

"Taming The CEO’s Nightmare", Businessworld (India), June 12, 2010 by Devangshu Dutta
 
In his latest book, Richard A. D’Aveni focuses on a topic of acute concern for most businesses: commoditisation. In a few recent interviews, he accurately described it as the “black plague on modern corporations” and a “deadly disease that’s spreading like crazy”. Beating The Commodity Trap too reflects these views.

If one had to pick the ultimate nightmares to keep CEOs awake at night, commoditisation would definitely be among the top of the list. Specifically, given the economic uncertainties around the world in the past couple of years, business leaders who are not concerned about their products or services being turned into commodities are either supremely equipped to maintain their differentiation, or immensely deluded as to their capabilities to fight market forces. D’Aveni says maintaining differentiation alone is not enough to sustain business.

A product or service becomes a commodity when it is not distinguishable from competing offerings and, therefore, not valued above the competition. D’Aveni views commoditisation along two important attributes: the benefits or features that are being offered and the price (margin) that is available to the business. Based on his model, he has identified three types of competitive stress that a business could face.

The Global Peter Drucker Challenge

www.druckerchallenge.org DRUCKER SOCIETY LAUNCHES ESSAY CONTEST The Peter Drucker Society of Europe (PDSE) launches "The Global Peter Drucker Challenge", an essay contest for young managers, entrepreneurs und students until the age of 35. The authors of the top three essays will be flown to Vienna and invited to participate in the "Global Peter Drucker Forum 2010" in Vienna on November 19. In addition, up to 40 authors of high quality essays will get free access to the "Global Peter Drucker Forum 2010". The essay contest has the overarching theme "Continuity and Change", i.e. balancing innovation and time-tested practices, and finding solutions that work in a time of crisis and great upheavals. "Continuity and Change" was also a leitmotif in the life and work of Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005). The young Peter Drucker, who later went on to become "the man who invented management" (The New York Times), grew up in a time of unprecedented upheavals in politics, the economy and technology that fundamentally changed society. Like the young generation today he was confronted with a massive and worldwide economic crisis – indeed, the very first article Drucker wrote as a rookie editor for the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger newspaper in 1929 happened to be about infamous "Wall Street Crash", which sounded the bell for a massive and worldwide economic crisis...

Job posting: Acumen Fund is looking for change-agent to mange current $23 million social impact investment portfolio in India.

India Director position

The TED Open Translation Project

The TED Open Translation Project

More than 1135 articles in The Guardian about Twitter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/twitter

Even MPs are at it live in the Commons chamber: Budget 2010: MPs tweet their way through Darling's speech
24 March 2010

June 15 deadline for AIESEC alumni scholarships for MBA and graduates studies in Madrid at IE Business School

http://twitter.com/aieseclife/status/16010903388

When having an MBA is Important - CNN

Click here for the article of CNN, June 9, 2010.

DeansTalk, to be relaunched in two weeks.

Deanstalk will soon be relaunched and marketed for the first time in years, and we are considering, based on feedback, creating for it a social network, using for example Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and administering it with TweetDeck/Seesmic. Any ideas/tenders for a new design/architecture would be more than welcome, especially those adapted to smartphones and that can be used in China. We are currently using Typepad. Some of the plugins/widgets we are considering are Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Flickr, YouTube, disqus, mashups? etc.

Several deans in the US, Europe and Asia etc will be contacted. Already there is a waiting list of several deans who have spontaneousy expressed interest in contributing, including some in China and India, as well as many higher education professionals who have contacted us who unfortunately are further down the waiting list. We are looking for participation from the likes of those in "Twitter in Education", "100 best Higher Education blogs" etc. and hope to continue to get many visitors from networks such as Business Exchange.

Please send us an email at deanstalknet@gmail.com or leave a comment. This post will be updated and we will launch a beta version within two weeks.

America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2010

Bloomberg Businessweek's second annual U.S. roundup of promising social entrepreneurs.

The companies profiled here were selected from more than 200 candidates suggested earlier this year by Businessweek.com readers. They range from fresh startups to established, multimillion-dollar enterprises. All share a commitment to using business to create a broader benefit. Flip through this slide show to read profiles of each, then vote for the one you consider most promising at the end of the slide show. Voting ends on June 25. We'll announce the top 5 vote-getters on the Small Business channel on June 29.

Best b-schools in the world 2010 - America Economia

America Economia on Wikipedia: ...Since 1993, the unit of analysis and studies AméricaEconomía Intelligence conducts research and rankings of the major topics of interest to senior executives and entrepreneurs from Latin America...

Ranking article, 4th June, 2010.

Download Ranking of Global MBAs

1. Harvard Business School
2. London Business School
3. IE Business School
4. IESE Business School
5. The Wharton School

America's (28) Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs - Making a Profit and a Difference

BloombergBusinessweek, Making a Profit and a Difference, April 3, 2009

Lumni (Slideshow 17 of 28)

lumninet.com

Felipe Vergara, 40, Miami

After earning his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1999, Felipe Vergara took the traditional path and joined consulting firm McKinsey in New York as an associate consultant, working on strategy projects in the U.S. and Paris. But before long the Colombia native wanted to do something more entrepreneurial. Struck by the number of bright kids in Colombia who couldn't afford to attend college, he decided to shift gears...

http://iniciativamexico.org - suggest a project!

http://iniciativamexico.org

Eurobarometer: "Entrepreneurship in the EU and beyond"

Brussels, 04 June 2010, Memo/10/232, European attitudes to Entrepreneurship

Flash Eurobarometer on Entrepreneurship 2009

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-analysis/eurobarometer/index_en.htm (PDF 5.5MB, 201 pages)

On this survey

Over the last years the Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry has been studying the development of entrepreneurship in the EU Member States comparing data with those of non-European countries, especially the United States. Similar Eurobarometer surveys have been published in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and 2007.

This year’s Eurobarometer survey covers 36 countries – the EU27, Croatia and Turkey, the United States, three EFTA countries (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland) and for the first time three Asian countries, i.e. Japan, South Korea and China. Around 26.000 people were interviewed by telephone for this survey. The results are weighted according to country size and are representative for the countries.

See also IP/10/689

More information

European Small Business portal: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/index_en.htm

World Challenge 2010 - 1 week left to nominate a project/small business

www.theworldchallenge.co.uk

The MBA Job Picture Brightens

Click here for the article of BloombergBusinessweek, June 3, 2010.

The job market for MBA graduates appears to be slowly bouncing back at a growing number of top business schools, with increased on-campus recruiting, an uptick in job postings, and more students walking away at graduation with a job offer in hand. At some of these schools, career services directors say recruiting is returning to levels not seen since before the global recession and economic meltdown threw a wrench into the once-buoyant MBA job market two years ago.

Will India Meet Global Expectations? Davos 2010

Starts at 02:00

Apple Learning Interchange

Apple Learning Interchange

Venture Capital in Education Summit 2010, New York City on June 8-9, 2010

VC investments in education, LearnBoost, June 1st, 2010

Here’s some info from an old Berkery Noyes presentation I’m looking at right now: - In 2008 over $28 billion dollars was invested by venture capital firms across 17 key industry segments - The segment receiving the largest funding was software, at $4.9 billion followed by energy and then biotechnology..

The numbers make this conclusion a no-brainer: there’s about to be significantly more venture capital investment in the Education category.

Zhong-Ming Wang, dean of Zhejiang University Business School interviewed by Santiago Iniguez

Zhong-Ming Wang, dean of Zhejiang University Business School (Hangzhou, China) on 5th May, 2010 at IE Business School in Madrid.

MBA Employment Outlook on the Mend But Still Challenging, GMAC Survey Finds

London, June 1, 2010, PRNewswire. The job market for new business school graduates remains difficult, but there are clear signs that employers are becoming increasingly confident about the economy - and more eager to hire - according to newly released data from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

The percentage of employers in European Union planning to hire newly minted MBAs is up this year compared with 2009, although the number of new hires per company is expected to decline slightly, GMAC researchers found in their annual survey of recruiters. Forty-four percent of respondents to the GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey whose firms are based in the E.U. said they planned to hire new MBA graduates in 2010, reversing a sharp drop in 2009, when the comparable figure fell to 36 percent from 44 percent the year before. Graduates of other types of master's-level business programs also should see their prospects improve in 2010, the survey data suggest.

"Employers have spoken clearly. The intrinsic value they place on the skills people develop in business school does not rise and fall just because the economy does," said Dave Wilson, president and CEO of GMAC, an international non-profit association of leading business schools and owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), used by thousands of business schools worldwide as part of the admissions process. "Management talent is always critical to the well-being of any organization, and as conditions improve, employers will find ways to acquire more of that talent."

Highest Paid US MBA-Alumni

Article and slide-show of BloombergBusinessWeek, May 24, 2010.