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Dean Roger Martin, Rotman, New working paper from "Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity", Canada- on Small business, entrepreneurship, and innovation

Roger L. Martin, Chairman of Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress
Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

I am pleased to present Working Paper 15 of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity. In this Working Paper, we examine the importance of small business and entrepreneurship to our prosperity in Ontario and Canada...

Small business, entrepreneurship, and innovation Working Paper 15 - February 2012

www.competeprosper.ca, @Institute_ICP

New research by the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity shows that public policy should focus on truly entrepreneurial firms to strengthen innovation capabilities in Ontario and Canada

Smaller businesses are the backbone of Ontario’s and Canada’s economies. But not all smaller businesses are the same. Our economy would be better served if public policy focused on assisting the relatively small number of entrepreneurial high-growth, high-impact firms that will drive innovation, productivity, and prosperity. Thus the emphasis in taxation and broader economic policy should shift from smaller to growing firms.

These are the key conclusions of the Working Paper, Small business, entrepreneurship, and innovation

Link to Press Release

Download Paper (PDF - 2.47MB, 60 pages)

Request a hard copy of paper

Dean Ken Freeman Featured in Financial Times

Bridging Theory and Practice, February 2nd, 2012

The January 30th edition of Financial Times featured a profile of Kenneth Freeman, Allen Questrom Professor and Dean at Boston University School of Management:

Kenneth Freeman made his reputation as a turnround expert, steering Quest Diagnostics from a problem-plagued start-up to a leading medical testing company. In a study published last year in Harvard Business Review, he was rated one of the best-performing chief executives in the world. Now, as dean of Boston University School of Management, he aims to bring that real-world sensibility to the school’s 99-year-old business programme...

Read the article on Financial Times.

Dean Ken Freeman of Boston School of Management talks with Gustavo Valle, CEO of Dannon

February 9th, 2012

Dannon CEO Gustavo Valle visited the School of Management on January 30, 2012
and had the opportunity to chat CEO-to-CEO with Dean Ken Freeman about running his multinational food company. Their discussion is part of our new “Conversations with Ken” video series.

What's News from B-Schools - Dean David Bach of programs at IE & strategy professor - IE overhauling its portfolio of part-time degree programs

Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 by Melissa Korn (Via @SantiagoIniguez)

Choose Your Own Adventure' at IE

Madrid-based IE Business School is overhauling its portfolio of part-time degree programs to offer students greater flexibility in how often they take classes, where and with whom.

(IE Business School Program combinations for part-time M.B.A. and part-time executive M.B.A. students under the new plan.)

To do so, the school is trimming its part-time catalog from 12 degrees, including M.B.A.s and specialized masters degrees, to just two: the Global M.B.A.+ and the Executive M.B.A.+.

Beginning in the fall semester, students will be able to mix and match online and in-person course formats, choose how often their classes meet and opt for English or Spanish instruction. In all, there will be about 90 unique course combinations.

"Recruiters and corporate sponsors are questioning the one-size-fits-all programs as they seek to develop and recruit experienced talent for specific organizational needs," said David Bach, a strategy professor and dean of programs at IE....

Dean John Quelch of CEIBS in Shanghai - FT - Bark with bite

Professor John Quelch (Wikipedia) is dean of Ceibs in Shanghai. His latest book is ‘All Business Is Local’. Previously, he was senior associate dean at Harvard Business School and dean of London Business School  (Ceibs press)

Article of Finanical Times, "Bark with bite", January 30, 2012

Academics succeed if their names are linked to one important idea that outlives them. Professor Theodore Levitt’s name is linked to many. The first was a blockbuster. “Marketing myopia” was published by Harvard Business Review (HBR) in 1960, one year after Harvard Business School plucked Prof Levitt, the son of a German immigrant cobbler, from the University of North Dakota...

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www.quelch.tv

Video: Can the U.S. Economy Still Compete With China?, Feb 8, 2012 “All Business is Local” author John Quelch on what is needed to boost U.S. economic growth and competitiveness globally

Deans Peter Henry (Stern) and Robert Bruner (Darden) - CNBC video "MBA Students: Wall S. vs Silicon Valley"

CNBC video 14 February, 2012

"Building a better business school" - Financial Times

Financial Times, February 13, 2012

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According to Erik Schlie, who runs (Associate Dean of ) MBA programmes at Spain’s IE business school, learning from the mistakes of the past is essential.

The IE programmes encourage participants to “look at certain scandals of the past” in order for them to develop a “broader sense of responsibilities”. Ethics and corporate social responsibility are on the agenda everywhere, with an emphasis on reflective practise.

“I ask participants at the very beginning of the programme: ‘what kind of manager, what kind of person, do you want to be?’,” says Prof Schlie.

For many, this has meant a shift away from the traditional MBA path of a career in the not-so-sustainable financial services industry.

For the current generation, “there is more to care about than getting your next investment banking job,” says Prof Schlie, noting that more and more of his students are seeking careers in not-for-profits and social enterprises

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At IE, Prof Schlie runs “change modules”, where students work with real businesses to help them improve their performance.

One of this year’s exercises is to help a Brazilian business, a beauty salon company catering for “base of the pyramid” consumers who live on less than $2-$3 a day. This example is emblematic of another theme in the business education of the future – globalisation.

“The future is more blended, more global,” notes Prof Schlie. Indeed, as well as offering international experience, most good MBA courses include a placement abroad.

Professor Valérie Gauthier - Ten Questions - FT

Financial Times, February 7, 2012

Valérie Gauthier is a visiting professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, which she joined last year. Before this appointment she worked for 22 years at HEC Paris where her most recent roles were associate professor and visions of leadership chair professor.

Prof Gauthier has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Paris III, Sorbonne and she has also completed an executive education programme in strategy and organisation at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2010 she was selected as one of the visionaries for education by Forbes...

1. What does it mean to be a professor?

For me it means that I am at the crossroads of different populations and that I have a responsibility to bridge the gaps of knowledge, be it academic or simply that of the human self.

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9. What inspires you?
The poets are my greatest source of inspiration. Poets breathe life into words and are the most receptive and sensitive to the world’s graces and disgraces. They are capable of intensity, vision and insights like no other. Poems are like miracles for those who don’t believe in miracles.

Deputy Dean of degree programs at INSEAD, Peter Zemsky - The Personal Journey of an Effective Leader

Forbes February 10,2012, Matt Symonds, Contributor, Chief editor of MBA50.com

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So where can business schools make a difference in leadership development?

In this interview with Peter Zemsky, Deputy Dean of degree programs at INSEAD, he talks about how business education can help MBA students to become better leaders, in an environment designed to test them, push them, stress them, and expose them to different perspectives on the personal journey to leadership.

He also tackles the debate about whether business school research really matters, and shares his thoughts on management as an art or a science.

Dean Ted Snyder, "Yale B-school wants a piece of the spotlight"

By John A. Byrne, contributor (Poets&Quants), Fortune, February 8, 2012

Veteran B-school dean Ted Snyder has come to Yale with an ambitious agenda, designed to garner the attention and influence that has long eluded the business school.

Ever since Yale University launched its ...

Assoc. Dean Robert Hansen, Tuck - "To Lower College Costs, Obama Should Focus on Supply and Demand"

Robert G. Hansen is senior associate dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University.

U.S. News, January 31, 2012

Last Friday, President Obama visited the University of Michigan and outlined a new plan aimed at limiting tuition increases at U.S. universities. There is no question that tuition increases have been high—as any parent or student paying the bills will attest. Earlier, in his State of the Union address, the president hinted at his approach: "Let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can't stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down." The 4,000 Wolverines listening roared their approval...

Dean Roger Martin, Rotman(Toronto) bschool - "Column: Expected Facebook IPO draws the question: Why?"

Alan M. Webber, a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors, is author of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self.

USA Today, 31 January, 2012.

...What's the purpose of an IPO today — compared with its original business rationale? Whose interests do IPOs serve — and does going public actually harm a company's future prospects? Perhaps most important, have IPOs outlived their usefulness — and will we see American business in the future that looks a lot more like American business in the past? Is it time to say RIP to IPOs?...

Dean Paul Danos,Tuck(Dartmouth) -"MBA Employment Figures Give Reason for Economic Optimism"

U.S.News & World Report, January 23, 2012

When I view the economic prospects through my business school lens, I am encouraged, as opposed to the pessimism engendered by the reading of most professional economists' forecasts. If one believes in rational employment markets, last summer's strong demand for top MBA graduates should be an occasion for optimism. Last summer 97 percent of Tuck's 2011 graduates had firm employment offers within three months of graduation and total compensation increased 7 percent over 2010. As an indication of next summer's demand 85 percent of the class of 2012 had job offers coming from their 2011 summer internships...

Dean Bruce Magid - Meet the Deans, by Della Bradshaw

Financial Times, January 2 2012

...Having spent 21 years in the private sector, at Bank of America, he is now well on the way to completing a further 20 years in education. His first port of call was Michigan State University, followed by San José State University, where he was the founding dean of the Lucas Graduate School of Business . He has now been re-appointed for a second five-year term as dean at the Brandeis International Business School, in Boston, his home city...

Dean Richard Lyons, Haas (Berkeley), paper - CURRICULUM REFORM: GETTING MORE MACRO, AND MORE MICRO

Download Paper 10/31/11, forthcoming, Journal of Management Development, (PDF, 14 pages)

Via @richlyons

Abstract

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business pursued curriculum reform using a barbell approach. The macro end is pinned down with a leader archetype, that of an innovative, path-bending leader, plus a supporting and explicit culture now deeply embedded in admissions. The micro end is pinned down with a set of ten capabilities that are extended and integrated throughout the curriculum (e.g., problem framing). The connection to action is achieved through a new requirement in experiential learning that allows students to select among many options (e.g., a Cleantech-to-Market course). The school followed a particularly high-touch approach to gain the buy-in of its faculty.

Introduction

“To what end all this curriculum change? What tethers the ‘vision’?” Every Dean has received such questions – from a Board member, alum, faculty member, whomever. Another common question: “Let’s get concrete – exactly what will these graduates be able to do that sets them apart?” In today’s business school marketplace, there is less room for, and tolerance of, more traditional ‘middle-ware’ curriculum reforms that outline changes, but fail to articulate a higher- order destination, or a set of concrete enabling skills.

This article addresses our experience here at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and some resulting lessons...

New Dean Named at Cornell's Johnson School

Wall Street Journal, Melissa Korn, January 9, 2012.

Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management has named as its new dean an INSEAD business and technology professor and academic director of that school's research center for technology, innovation and new media.

Soumitra Dutta, 48, who has been at INSEAD for more than 20 years, will start his renewable five-year term at the Ithaca, N.Y.-based school on July 1. He succeeds Joseph Thomas, who is returning to the classroom after five years at the helm...

Dean Robert Bruner, Darden bschool (U. Virginia) - "New Year’s Aspirations" (for management education in 2012)

Published on January 1, 2012 on his blog

(Dean Robert Bruner was named "Dean of the Year 2011" by Poets & Quants)

1. Extend the "reach" in educational content and engagement beyond the borders of one’s home country...

...I don’t think that business is as global as Thomas Friedman argues in The World is Flat. Rather, business has strong local and regional elements—it is “semi-global” in the phrase of Pankaj Ghemawat–...

2. Accomplish more with fewer resources...

3. Innovate...

4. Speak up for what’s right...

Dean Santiago Iniguez in THE. Times Higher Education, "Opportunity to rejuvenate"

Article of 22 December 2011

(Santiago Iniguez' recent book thelearningcurvebook.com)

The Times Higher Education (THE) on Wikipedia

European universities should look to the US for a route back to excellence, argues Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño

Greece was home to the Academy founded by Plato in the 4th century BC, the first Western higher education institution. Bologna in Italy was the cradle of the first university in the 11th century. One millennium later, these two countries, along with the Republic of Ireland, Portugal and Spain, have seen their governments swept away by the current economic crisis. This also implies changes in the future political agendas for higher education, particularly given the significant cuts expected to public budgets. It is very likely that similar reforms and budgetary adjustments will occur in countries such as France and Belgium in the medium term. Inevitably, the economic interdependence within Europe will spread budgetary adjustments to most countries in the continent, including those that stand resilient today.

One of the most severely affected areas of austerity policies will certainly be public education. But, as well as posing threats, times of crisis bring many opportunities that could in fact help to rejuvenate Europe's universities...

Dean Jim Dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler bschool - "Who is Next in Line?"

@DeanJimDean on @educationtimes

The Times of India, December 14, 2011

Successful plans provide the training that not only prepare employees for leadership roles, but also prepare them to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s workplace, says James W Dean Jr, Dean, University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, US...

Dean Roger Martin (Rotman, Toronto) in conversation with Nandan Nilekani

YouTube, 13 December 2010

TOPIC: "The Challenges of Achieving Unique Identification for 1.1 Billion Indians"
SPEAKERS: Dean Roger Martin interviews Nandan Nilekani (DeansTalk: January 2010, July 2010), Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India; Co-Founder and former CEO of Infosys Technologies; author, Imagining India: The Idea of a Nation Renewed

Dean Sally Blount, Northwestern’s Kellogg Bschool - Best Route to Financial Stability, MBA or CPA?

Businessweek, November 30, 2011

A reader recently asked if there was more value in pursuing an MBA or becoming a CPA.

We asked Sally Blount, dean of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, for the answer. Here’s what she said:

Dean Bernard Ramanantsoa, HEC Paris - Financial Times' "Meet the dean"

From SPECIAL REPORTS

Meet the dean

Bernard Ramanantsoa, dean of HEC Paris, on how it has changed in the 25 years since he was there as a student

“Ça n’a rien á voir,” says Bernard Ramanantsoa when I ask how his experience of an MBA at HEC in 1976 might differ from that of today’s participants. In other words, the two are worlds apart...

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Also was on Ask the experts: European business schools 2011, Dec 7 2011

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European business schools find an edge

Dec 1 2011  European business schools are better placed now to compete with top US business schools but they themselves are facing competition from Asian schools. Bernard Ramanantsoa, dean of HEC Paris, discusses with Della Bradshaw, business education editor, the challenges of competition and funding in austere times.  (5m 4sec)

Dean Robert Bruner of Darden bschool, post: "Reading to be a Full Person"

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” –Francis Bacon (Wikipedia)

Post of November 18, 2011

...read 42 books in the past 12 months...

1. Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled his Greatness. If you think mental illness is only for followers, think again. This is an excellent discussion of depression at the top and how it contributes to a style of leadership.      

2. Howe and Strauss, The Fourth Turning. An exhausting presentation of a theory that America is entering a period of decline and extreme turbulence owing to a historical cycle of change. I seriously doubt the conclusions the authors reach, owing to their selective use of facts and historical analogies. Yet I recommend it as a stimulating representative of “declinist” writings. Sure to challenge your comfortable optimism.      

3. Manfred Kets de Vries, Happiness Factor. I had the pleasure of teaching this book in a small seminar last winter. It is a succinct summary of research and writings on human happiness. Are you happy? Maybe the pursuit of happiness is not the best pursuit in life. Read this, and think further.

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15. George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm

Dean Ajit Rangnekar, Indian School of Business on becoming first B-school in South Asia to get AACSB accreditation

Press release ISB

The Indian School of Business (ISB) has received the accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), making it the first business school in South Asia to be recognised by the premier global body. The accreditation by AACSB coincides with the 10th anniversary of the b-school.

Dean Ajit Rangnekar: “We are delighted to have received the prestigious AACSB accreditation, which is regarded as the hallmark of excellence in business education. The AACSB is unique because of its mission-driven approach, evaluating the applying schools against peer schools with similar missions. Given our commitment to creating research-based knowledge, and developing leaders through innovative world-class programmes, we are delighted to have this robust and independent reaffirmation of our adherence to our mission.”

He further added, “We are confident that this recognition will translate into increased interest by the international community comprising of faculty, students and recruiters, and help us chart Asia’s and India’s growth as the global management education hub.”...

Dean Dipak Jain of INSEAD on the Spanish bschool deans "gaining international intellectual leadership in the sector"

@quiquerm, Quique Rodríguez, journalist of @expansionempleo

 

 

Dean Dipak Jain "Between them are gaining international intellectual leadership in the sector " (referring to books by

Jordi Canals (Dean of IESE, The future of leadership development,) and Santiago Iniguez (Dean of IE Business School, www.thelearningcurvebook.com)).

Translated article (Google) of the article of Expansion y Empleo,"The Spanish business schools have earned global leadership", of 2 December 2011, (the leading Spanish business daily).

Dean Richard Lyons of the Haas School of Business, Interview in Poets & Quants

Interview in Poets & Quants by John A. Byrne

Rich Lyons is the Dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Prior to becoming dean in July of 2008, he served as the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs in New York, a position he held since 2006. In that role, he was responsible for the leadership development of the firm’s managing directors. He was interviewed by John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, and W. Oliver Segovia, authors of the new book, Passion & Purpose. This interview is an excerpt from the book published by Harvard Business Review Press...

Dean François Ortalo-Magné @fortalomagne, Dean of Wisconsin School of Business

@fortalomagne

Dean François Ortalo-Magné

About the Wisconsin School of Business

More than 35,000 Wisconsin School of Business alumni form a global network.

Harvard Business School’s Dean On Moral Humility In Business

RadioBoston, 15 November, 2011

Nitin Nohria was named the new dean of Harvard Business School in 2010. Had his appointment come before the banking crisis and economic recession, he might have been seen as a strange pick. The former Harvard professor of leadership and organizational behavior is widely known as a soft-spoken, but frank critic of the way business is taught and done.

“Managers have lost legitimacy… in the face of a widespread institutional breakdown of trust and self-policing,”...

Nitin Nohria (AP)

Can Italy Be Saved? - Michael Spence, Nobel laureate economics, Professor Economics, NYU Stern bschool

2011-11-21 Project Syndicate 

Via @ProSyn

Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Dean, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Dean Roger Martin (Rotman bschool) - Canada, like Steve Jobs, should zero in on innovation

Globe and Mail, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011

...The first lesson is that commercial success and impact is more about innovation than about invention...

...The second lesson is that successful innovation actually means trying things that are unproven – optimally that have never been tried before...

Olin Business School Program Wins MBA Roundtable Innovator Award

Press Release, November 18, 2011

Selection Committees

Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis has received the inaugural MBA Roundtable Innovator Award for its program called Critical Thinking@Olin. The educational initiative is designed to develop critical thinking skills in MBA students and has had measurable impact on graduates’ success in the job market.
 
The MBA Roundtable Innovator Award was created to recognize and promote innovative initiatives in MBA education and to acknowledge the institutions that are driving change in the field....

MBA Roundtable Innovator Award Finalists
Other finalists for the award were Babson College for its fast-track development of a common core curriculum for its four MBA programs; Dalhousie University for Canada’s first Corporate Residency MBA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its online MBA program and its integration with the university’s traditional MBA program; and University of Pennsylvania for its Global Modular Courses, an accelerated study abroad program. 
 
"All of our finalists were pushing the envelope in terms of creating innovative initiatives" said Henry Eyring, a member of the selection committee, co-author of Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out, and advancement vice president at Brigham Young University-Idaho.
 
"As a judge, I looked at them with the mindset of a venture capitalist—which initiative would I want to invest in? Washington University rose to the top. Their Critical Thinking@Olin initiative is unique, it’s replicable by other institutions, and it has clear outcomes"

Selection Committee Members
In addition to Lifschitz and Eyring, other selection committee members for the MBA Roundtable Innovator Award included Robert Grosse, director of the Center for Global Business Innovation and Transformation at George Mason University; Santiago Iniguez de Onzono, dean and professor of Strategic Management at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain; Michael Jewell, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and business consultant, and founder and former CEO of Celebrate Express; and Dorothy Jones, senior director of innovation at Frito-Lay North America.

About the MBA Roundtable
The MBA Roundtable is a collaborative, nonprofit organization, founded in 1995, that facilitates the exchange of information and resources on MBA curricular innovation. More than 150 business schools from across the world are members of the MBA Roundtable.  For more information, visit www.mbaroundtable.org.
 
About Olin Business School
Founded in 1917, Washington University’s business school offers 12 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. For more information, visit: www.olin.wustl.edu

Generation Web2011 - A report on business school websites

Via @SantiagoIniguez, 9 Nov

Report on Business School's Websites by EFMD: Candidates prefer searching than navigating http://bit.ly/vFvWYB (PDF 12, pages)

GenerationWeb first ran in 2007 and since that time this annual study has reviewed around 75 business school websites, determining what students want from the web experience and how they use school sites. Run by CarringtonCrisp, the study is supported by The Association of Business Schools (ABS), EFMD and the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans...

Dean Doug Guthrie, Dean of The George Washington University School of Business, runs NYC Marathon for charity, Team for Kids

@DeanDougGuthrie

Dr. Doug Guthrie, Dean, Professor of International Business and Professor of Management at The George Washington University School of Business is an expert in the fields of economic reform in China, leadership and corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. (Meet the dean)

Post of Dean´s Blog, November 07, 2011

Dean Guthrie completed his 13th marathon at the New York City Marathon yesterday.  He ran for the charity, Team for Kids (www.tfkworldwide.org), an organization helping to combat childhood obesity by providing health and fitness programs to children who would otherwise have no access.  Running by his side was his partner, Mira Edmonds.

Dean Glenn Hubbard - Book - The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty

Book on Amazon, (August 24, 2009) R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan, two leading scholars in business and finance

Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector—the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions the business sector is weak, but foreign aid continues to fund government and NGOs. Switching aid to the local business sector in order to cultivate a middle class is the oldest, surest, and only way to eliminate poverty in poor countries.

"Ten On Ten" 10 deans reflect on trends over the last 10 years & envision the years to come

Featured article on BizEd magazine, Via AACSBdan

Business Schools: A Look Back, A Look Ahead By Judy Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, California.

Questions of Courage, Not Ethics By Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Where is IT Taking Us? By Joyce Elam, dean of the College of Business Administration at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

Measures of Progress By Barron H. Harvey, dean of the Howard University School of Business in Washington, D.C.

The New Learning Paradigm By Thierry Grange, dean and director general of the Grenoble Ecole de Management in France

The Dean's Global Journey By Howard Thomas, LKCSB Chair of Strategic Management and dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University

You've Come a Long Way, Maybe By Linda R. Garceau, dean of the College of Business and Technology at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City.

You've Come a Long Way, Maybe By Linda R. Garceau, dean of the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. He is also co-chair of AACSB's Blue Ribbon Committee on Accreditation Quality

Competition through Cooperation By Fernando A. D'Alessio, director general of CENTRUM Católica at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima.

Better Days Ahead By Ángel Cabrera, president of Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona. The six Principles of Management Education can be read at www.unprme.org/the- 6-principles/index.php.

Prof McClelland - "a moral force" - a tribute by Peter Moizer, dean of Leeds University Business School

Financial Times, October 24, 2011

...When he was asked earlier this year why he had worked so tirelessly to develop management education and to make a difference to business and society, Prof McClelland said simply that he had been fortunate enough to make a contribution...

...As founding director of Manchester Business School (MBS), Prof McClelland laid the foundations from which the school grew into the renowned establishment it is today, and of which I am proud to be an alumnus. As founding editor of the Journal of Management Studies (JMS), he established a title that, 50 years later, remains among the best in the world...

www.journalofmanagementstudies.com

Dean Ted Snyder - ‘If you get the people right, they build the school’ - interview with Della Bradshaw (FT)

Article of the Financial Times, October 17, 2011.

An interview with Edward Snyder is unlike an interview with most other business school deans. He is quietly spoken, articulate and reflective – and there is little of the hard sell tactics adopted by many of his peers.

As one of only a handful of deans to have been the boss at three different business schools, he has a wealth of experience to draw on when he talks about the business school industry, clearly one of his favourite topics. Now in charge of the business school at Yale, he was previously at the University of Chicago’s Booth school of business, and before that at the Darden school at the University of Virginia. “I love deaning,” he confesses....

Dean "Danos Says Tuck School Leads MBA Placement Ranking" - Washington Post

Washington Post, October 11, 2011.

Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, talks about the demand for positions at the school, the quality of Tuck applicants and the success of graduates. Tonight at 7 p.m. New York time, Bloomberg Television and the Washington Post, in partnership with WBIN-TV and host Dartmouth College, will present the first debate of the 2012 campaign focused exclusively on the economy. Charlie Rose moderates. He'll be joined by Washington Post political correspondent Karen Tumulty and Bloomberg White House correspondent Julianna Goldman. Danos speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan."

Dean Peter Tufano of Oxford - Lessons learned at Harvard find new home at Oxford

Article of Della Bradshaw, October 3, 2011

A quiet revolution looks set to take place at the University of Oxford, that most hallowed of academic institutions. And it is all to do with a man from Cambridge – Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Peter Tufano, the new dean at the Saïd school, has plans to build the reputation of the business school to match that of the university, one of the UK’s most prestigious. Few could doubt his credentials: for the past 22 years he has been a faculty member of Harvard...

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Dean Roger Martin of Rotman (Toronto) - How To Make Companies Think Long-Term

HBR, Monday October 3, 2011

...The voting rights associated with each share would be that share times the number of days it has been held by that shareholder...

...A time-based voting system would cumulate the shares from the longest held shares to the shortest and determine the purchase price of the median share. That median purchase price (let's assume $60/share for the above company) would define the share price on which management should feel obligated to earn a return above the cost of equity (let's assume 10%, so $6/share). This definition of shareholder value creation would help keep management from taking extreme and risky action to earn a return on the shareholder who has just purchased the last share at the highest price. This would re-establish the focus of management on creating long-term value for the shareholders who are willing to hold their shares for the long run — a perfect match.

Sunil Kumar, dean of Chicago Booth - "Chicago School defends it research" - FT video

Video interview with Della Bradshaw of the Financial Times.

Jul 8 2011  The free market theories of "Chicago School" economists have been blamed for the financial crisis. Sunil Kumar, the new dean of Chicago Booth business school, defends the research to Della Bradshaw, business education editor. He explains how the school is investigating how to avoid future crises and how to make sure the theories and their limitations are better understood.  (6m 6sec)

The Global Entrepreneur (Color Magazine) - Dean Raghu Tadepalli of F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College -

Article of Color magazine USA    via @Assoc_of_MBAs, 9th September 2011.

@ColorMagazine In a city rich in shades, here is a color that includes all...

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Global, inclusive thinkers will shape the future - so how do we shape them?

The economic livelihood of the planet is in turmoil: debt crisis, market instability, double-dip fears. In every government and political institution, across international conglomerates and NGOs, even among the sacred spheres of monetary and fiscal policy - what is absolutely crystal clear is that the old rules have changed. The past is no longer a good predictor of the future.

What‘s needed right now are entrepreneurial leaders who can take creative action in the face of an unknown future to bring real economic and social value to all they do. It is a daunting task for business schools, but we must train and inspire these entrepreneurial leaders to create opportunities, to bravely encounter and learn from obstacles and to incorporate this learning into what they do next. This process ─ of acting, learning, repeating ─ is what managing in uncertain times is all about.

The world needs new entrepreneurial leaders because they cultivate hope and are masters at developing opportunities and creating jobs. And jobs equal peace and prosperity. Entrepreneurship today is all about giving people the tools to make it happen.
Yet, new entrepreneurial leaders will only thrive in an environment that is global and inclusive. We cannot be U.S. centered anymore. Look at any U.S. company and you will see that the majority of sales and most profits are generated from a foreign affiliate: Exxon Mobil, GE, any big company you can think of - where are they hiring? In China, in Brazil, in India.
We tell our MBAs that we want them to be able to go anywhere in the world and succeed. Building a student population that is intentionally diverse is a vital strategy in shaping entrepreneurial leaders. An entrepreneurial leader that is the embodiment of a global, inclusive community will have the best chance of making a real difference in the world.

Stepping Out Of The Comfort Zone

Professor/Assoc Dean Matthew J. Slaughter of Tuck: The crucial connection between potholes and U.S. jobs

Read more: Article of www.Star-Telegram.com

...America's decaying infrastructure costs the typical American worker hundreds of hours in lost productivity. It also costs companies time and efficiency in moving their products around -- and also out of -- the country...

...Congress must pass comprehensive infrastructure legislation now to support America's competitiveness. In particular, Congress must ensure that sufficient funds are dedicated to this urgent issue. Americans stuck in Labor Day traffic understand this challenge of building infrastructure to build jobs...

FT´s Interactive graphic: The leading lights of business education

Updated August 19, 2011

An interactive graphic giving an insight into the careers and thoughts of the top business school deans.

Kellogg Dean Sally Blount’s Brave New Strategy - Poets & Quants

Article by John A. Byrne

“Think Bravely: We believe that business can be bravely led, passionately collaborative, and world changing.”

Those 15 words are at the heart of an ambitious effort to reposition Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. The phrase, part of a branding exercise that will lead to more substantive changes at Kellogg, has new Dean Sally Blount bubbling over with excitement.

“I think we came out with something really exciting there,” says Blount in a wide-ranging interview with Poets&Quants..

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)...

Dean Glenn Hubbard of Columbia Business School - Tax Reform Is the Swiftest Path to Growth - WSJ

Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2011

'What is tax reform?"

That's the Jeopardy-like question matching the answer: "The best step the government could take now to promote growth and employment." The Obama administration has been responding with "What are higher marginal tax rates and more stimulus?" But fundamental tax reform offers three key benefits.

First, reducing marginal tax rates on saving and investment and on work and entrepreneurship will increase capital formation and productivity, raising wages and output. Broadening the tax base and sharply lowering marginal tax rates can raise gross-domestic-product growth by a half to a full percentage point per year over a decade, according ...

Dean Andreas Pinkwart of The Leipzig Graduate School of Management - "We are small, but great"

MBA-Channel.com by Kirstin von Elm, 11 of August 2011

The Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Wikipedia) wants to grow, but with consideration for quality and a sense of proportion. Bachelor degrees will not be offered but a family-friendly part-time MBA, more personable service and new scholarships. Rector Andreas Pinkwart spoke about his plans to MBA-Channel.com.

Professor Pinkwart, for five years you were Innovation Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, a very important technological centre. Do you think that the economy of a country known for its research and technology should invest more in the training of its employees?

Yes absolutely, in order to remain competitive companies must do more. However, I have noticed a positive trend. HR managers are constantly confronted with the issue of recruiting and retaining good employees. More and more people show interest in investing time and money in personal development and therefore in their own careers. Increasingly employees choose their employers according to their willingness to offer attractive professional training and support. Consequently, this increases the pressure on the training provider.

Increasing willingness to pay - increasing demands: Is it not difficult for a relatively small German business school to compete against the educational offers of renowned German universities?

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Professor Christina Romer(Berkeley) and Assoc. Dean Mathew Slaughter(Tuck) - calming market jitters (PBS video+transcript)

PBS Newshour, August 10, 2011

JUDY WOODRUFF: Today's plunge marked the fourth time in just over a week where the Dow Jones industrials have dropped by triple digits. Market volatility is at again near record levels.

We look at this and the larger picture with two people who have worked closely on economic policy. Christina Romer was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Obama until September 2010. She's a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. And Matthew Slaughter served on President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from 2005 to 2007. He's now associate dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. And we thank you both for being with us.

Christina Romer, to you first.

The scary roller-coaster ride on the stock market continued again today. How do you explain it?

CHRISTINA ROMER, University of California at Berkley: Well, I think, obviously, one of the things about the stock market is it's very hard to explain the ups and downs...

Dean Emeritus Stanford GSB Mike Spence - Job creation: easier said than done

San Francisco Chronicle, August 7, 2011 + (Article of Foreign Affairs, July/August 2011)

From the perspective of Michael Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist (2001) and Hoover Institution fellow, the president faces some tough sledding..

...It's a structural reality that Spence believes Washington hasn't fully grasped and doesn't have a plan in place to address. "It's a design challenge, and that's not what we're doing right now," he said..

"There is every reason to believe these trends will continue," according to Spence, also a professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business..

Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World (May 2011, www.thenextconvergence.com).