DeansTalk - business management education

Dean John Quelch of CEIBS - aspires to make CEIBS a top 10-ranked research-focused business school

Poets & Quants

...Quelch, who aspires to make CEIBS a top 10-ranked, research-focused business school, is no stranger to administration. He was dean of London Business School from 1998 to 2001 and later served as senior associate dean at Harvard Business School (HBS)...

Blair Sheppard to leave Fuqua as he heads for China - FT

Article of the Financial Times, Della Bradshaw, July 25, 201

Blair Sheppard, one of most innovative business school deans in the business, is to spearhead Duke University’s push into China by taking up a new role in fund-raising and development for Duke Kunshan University, which is being established near Shanghai. In doing so he will step down as dean of Duke’s Fuqua school of business, an appointment he has held since 2007...

Dean Sally Blount - Kellogg to establish a global footprint with new campuses

Article of the Financial Times, by Della Bradshaw, July 21, 2011.

The Kellogg school at Northwestern University is to establish a network of hubs on three continents, says Sally Blount, who has been dean at the school for just a year. As well as Chicago, the school is expected to set up two more centres, one of which will be in Asia.

“To be a global player you have to have more than one home,” says Prof Blount...

Asian M.B.A. Programs on the Rise

Article of US News, April 8, 2011.

It's official: Management education in Asia is booming. With four schools firmly ensconced in the Financial Times top 20 global M.B.A. rankings—China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Hong Kong UST Business School, the Indian School of Business, and the Indian Institute of Management—those who pursue an M.B.A. in Asia are banking on the idea that studying in the region will open doors faster, and wider, than ever before. 

Flexibility and cost are just two factors swaying applicants to look at programs in the Far East. Most are much shorter than the traditional two-year program in the United States and are significantly less expensive than the top American programs...

Asia: MBA jobs market lifts off - FT

Financial Times, January 31 2011

If you are looking for a job, Asia is the place to be. This seems to be the unanimous view of headhunters, recruitment consultants and companies.

The latest Employment Outlook Survey by Manpower asked 64,000 human resource and recruitment managers around the world about their hiring intentions for the first quarter of 2011. The results show that India, China and Taiwan are the best places to look for a job in the new year...

Economics Professor Nouriel Roubini (NYU)- "Is the U.S. a Japan 2? The Return of Japan’s “Free Fallin” Stag-Deflation and the Risks of a U.S. "

Is the U.S. a Japan 2? The Return of Japan’s “Free Fallin” Stag-Deflation and the Risks of a U.S.

Nouriel Roubini´s blog | Feb 3, 2009

William Pesek, the savvy Asia columnist for Bloomberg, reports - in his latest column (see below) - my views about the structural crisis faced by Japan that I outlined in a 1996 paper titled “Japan’s Economic Crisis”. Thirteen years later Japan is entering another severe slump that looks like even worse than that of other advanced economies: while in US, Europe and some other advanced economies and China the second derivative of growth and of other economic indicators is turning closer to becoming eventually positive rather than negative (i.e. growth is still negative but GDP may be falling at a decelerating – rather than accelerating - rate) in Japan is still highly negative (i.e. the fall is accelerating and looking like a free fall, a severe case of stag-deflation).

The sad case of Japan free fall is a cautionary tale of what happens when a high flying economy has a real estate and equity bubble that goes bust and avoids for too long doing the painful structural reforms and clean-up of the financial system that is necessary to avoid a long-term L-shaped near depression. Japan had over a decade of stagnation and deflation, then a mild sub-par growth recovery that lasted only three years and is now spinning into another severe stag-deflation. Keep alive zombie banks and zombie corporations whose balance sheets and debts are not restructured as in Japan (zombie banks and zombie insolvent households in the US today) and you end up in a L-shaped near depression.

Let me explain next in this note why the US and the global economy face the risk of an L-shaped near depression if appropriate policy actions are not undertaken…

Read more

Doing one´s duty

“In practice it is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes exceedingly hard to find this out.” Samuel Butler (Note Books, 1912)