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Human Rights Watch - Kenneth Roth - @ KenRoth

Kenneth Roth(Wikipedia), has his critics.

Human Rights Watch (Wikipedia)

@KenRoth

Interview with Steve Case - NYT

When Attackers Become Defenders, Innovation Is Lost, May 4, 2013

"The Smell of the Place" - video at the WEF of the late Prof. Sumantra Ghoshal

IEDP - Developing Leaders Insights - Prof. Lee Newman IE (Behaviorial Science)

www.iedp.com  (IEDP Developing Leaders magazine)

www.iedp.com/Blog/Positive_Leadership

Top MBA Programs by Specialty: Leadership - Businessweek

December 31, 2012

Top MBA Programs by Specialty: Leadership

1. IMD                                                            5.98
2. Stanford                                                     5.79
3. Harvard                                                      5.56
4. Cornell (Johnson)                                       5.51
5. Pennsylvania (Wharton)                             5.46
6. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)                           5.40
7. North Carolina (Kenan Flagler)                   5.39
8. Michigan (Ross)                                          5.38
9. Vanderbilt (Owen)                                       5.37
10. IE Business School                                     5.36

"Your work ahead might always seem impossible, but it always seems impossible until you do it.” - Wharton's Nancy G Brinker

@wharton

Your work ahead might always seem impossible, but it always seems impossible until you do it.” - @nancygbrinker   http://whr.tn/XQAicG 

Susan G. Komen for the Cure — an organization that has invested almost $2 billion around the globe in ground-breaking research, education, screening and treatment...

"Wise Leadership" - Professors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka

Ikujiro Nonaka (Wikipedia) Hitotsubashi University, Hirotaka Takeuchi (Wikipedia) Harvard Business School
"The Big Idea: The Wise Leader", Harvard Business Review, May 2011

June 23, 2011 - Harvard Business Review recently sat down with Hitotsubashi ICS Professor Emeritus Ikujiro Nonaka and former Hitotsubashi ICS dean Hirotaka Takeuchi (now professor at HBS) to talk about what it means to be a leader who does what is right not only for his or her company, but also for the society. They recently wrote a Harvard Business Review article entitled The Wise Leader.

Knewton

www.knewton.com
Jose Ferreira (Wikpedia), Founder and CEO, MBA Harvard Business School 1997

Knewton COO, David Liu, @dliu8, (Columbia, MBA) at Georgetown's inaugural Innovation Summit, April 2012

www.totalleadership.org - Book by Professor Stew Friedman (Wharton)

@StewFriedman

professor @Wharton | author, Total Leadership (http://amzn.to/U2rWOD ) | speaker | blogger @HarvardBiz | ran @Ford's Leadership Center | proud dad | lucky husband

Philadelphia, PA · http://www.totalleadership.org

Jerry Rice Talks About "the Hill"

"I want to pass on my expertise to the next generation of bosses", explains Fergie on decision to reveal all to Harvard professor

December 19, 2012, Daily Mail

'At this stage of my life, I felt that if I’m helping young people progress through their own routes to management, then ultimately that was an important and compelling factor for me.'
 - Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson says although he was sceptical, he imparted some of his management secrets to Harvard Business School students to help young people to succeed in their careers.

Ferguson, whose managerial methods and philosophies are the subject of a case study at the prestigious American university, has led United to unparalleled on-pitch success and has been instrumental in making them one of the world's biggest sporting brands over the past 26 years.

In 2011, HBS professor Anita Elberse and co-author Tom Dye travelled to Old Trafford to conduct meetings and interviews with Ferguson, past and present players, and staff at the club.

Business secrets of United: Sir Alex Ferguson spoke at Harvard Business School this year

Read the full Fergie study 

You can purchase the Sir Alex Ferguson case study from Harvard Business School HERE

The Manchester United boss travelled to Boston earlier this year to assist in teaching some of the brightest young things in America. But why did he decide to open up?

Ferguson said: 'When you’re approached by an institution like Harvard, you know you are dealing with top quality.

'I had to consider that I was opening myself up to something I’ve never done before.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2250415/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-says-travelled-Harvard-help-young-people-succeed.html#ixzz2FnY4Ofa6
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For Power and Status, Dominance and Skill Trump Likability

Dec 19, 2012, Science Daily

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"Our findings suggest there are really two ways to top the social ladder and gain leadership -- impressing people with your skills or powering your way through old-fashioned dominance"

Tuck: Inaugural Forum focuses on corporate governance and leadership in a global world

Tuck press release, December 4, 2012

A growing population, increasing shortages of resources, and national economies that are heavily in debt – the world is facing enormous challenges over the coming decades. Business is going to play a key role in solving these problems. “Never before, have companies and society been so closely connected,” says Pierre Tapie, President of the ESSEC Business School. 



Together with Keio Business School in Tokyo, the School of Management of Fudan University in Shanghai, ESSEC Business School in France and the Business School of the University of Mannheim, Tuck forged an alliance of leading business schools from all parts of the world. (CouncilOnBusinessAndSociety.com) The alliance has a clear goal: to debate central economic and societal questions of the future, and to develop problem-solving approaches, while embedding them in research and education. More than 200 high-profile professors, business representatives, and students from the home countries of the five alliance partners participated in the first Forum and the focus was on questions that are both current and controversial: How can we best shape corporate governance? How should business leaders deal with the increased scrutiny of corporate actions? And what solutions exist for the tension-laden issue of balancing profitability with responsibility to multiple stakeholders? 


These are topics that will have an impact on the education of future managers as well. A study conducted amongst graduate students at the five cooperating business schools shows that future leaders in the United States already regard ethical conduct as one of the most important qualities of a successful top manager. Internationally, this attribute ranks second to competence in financial questions, but ahead of both strategic orientation and the ability to motivate employees...

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Speaks at Yale SOM - Video

December 3, 2012

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe made his first visit to Yale University on November 7 when he spoke at an event sponsored by Yale SOM's Latino Leadership Association student club.

Uribe, who served as president of Colombia from 2002 to 2010, discussed his administration's efforts to deal with the country's challenging social and economic issues, including poverty, chronic political tensions, and domestic terrorism. He also described his efforts to encourage cooperation between the public and private sectors. Uribe said that his presidential policies promoted social cohesion, security, and the encouragement of private investment that would lead to a more prosperous and stable economy...

There’s a high chance your boss, or even the likes of Steve Jobs, are high on the psychopath spectrum, says Oxford University psychologist Kevin Dutton.

Reuters November 28, 2012

"Illuminated Leadership, Wise Governance, And How The Jesuits Invented Modern Management" - Paolo Quattrone, IE professor of Accounting/Management Control

Illuminated Leadership, Wise Governance, And How The Jesuits Invented Modern Management by Paolo Quattrone, IE professor of Accounting and Management Control

How did the Jesuits accomplish tremendous expansion with endurance?

Think of an organization that, in just a few decades, grew from seven to about 13,000 members, across four continents with 495 branches to serve and manage an indefinitely growing number of clients. These are remarkable achievements by any standard..

Psychological Fatigue Is The Silent Productivity Killer--But Extreme Teamwork Can Subvert It

FastCompany, October 12, 2012

A head full of stress is as dangerous as one full of booze, even if that's rarely acknowledged in a work environment. Here are three ways to get you--or a colleague--back in the clear

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Big deals, like championship games, frequently hinge on nuances. An inch here, an ounce there is usually what separates number one in an industry from number two. You needn't worry about wholly eliminating psychological fatigue; a touch less is often a bottom-line difference maker.

Stop asking coworkers "How are you today?"

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Be attentive to teammates' subtle posture shifts.

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Feeling a little off your game yourself?

The best way to perk up is not a nap or coffee break; it's taking a timeout from focusing on your own little world and your own challenges to go do something nice to help someone else. In all our years of research and practice, we've found nothing creates more energy and positive momentum than does the act of helping. It gets your mind off an obstacle, or off fatigue itself, and puts it squarely on feeling great and accomplishing something great.

Aung San Suu Kyi at the London School of Economics - "Rule of Law" round-table discussion

Democratic Voice of Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi discusses the rule of law with experts at the London School of Economics on 19 June 2012, @DemocVoiceBurma

On YouTube, with 54 comments

 

How Google's Marissa Mayer Prevents Burnout + her video on Stanford's ecorner

Entrepreneur.com, June 6, 2012

UPDATE: Marissa Mayer was named chief executive officer of Yahoo Inc. July 16, 2012.

Many entrepreneurs don't even think twice when it comes to working around the clock. Marissa Mayer, Google's 20th employee and current vice president of location and local services, is no exception. When Google was a young company, she worked 130 hours per week and often slept at her desk.

"For my first five years at Google, I pulled an all-nighter every week," Mayer said in a recent talk at New York's 92Y cultural center. "It was a lot of hard work."

Hard work, she says, has been the key to Google's success, as well as her own.

For young companies that demand so much of their employees, hard work can spiral into burnout. Learning to prevent it--for yourself and your employees--is essential to your success as a business owner. Here are three steps to get started:

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3rd most popular video on Stanford's ecorner

Video "Don't Kill Projects; Morph Them"

 

Student Townhall, MD of the IMF Christine Lagarde at Keio University, Tokyo

IMF videos, July 7, 2012

Via @Lagarde    (Wikipedia)

Terrific event w @keio_university students. 3Cs to help you change the world: communication, competition, collaboration http://bit.ly/Ly6wu0 

 

Call for more women on boards extends to US - FT - US business schools maybe to join EU Commissioner of Justice

Financial Times, June 28, 2012.

US business schools are to be given the opportunity to get involved with an initiative spearheaded by the EU Commissioner of Justice, that aims to increase the number of women on company boards. (see also Court of Justice of the European Union, in Luxembourg)

In a call to action organised by the Forté Foundation, a consortium of leading organisations that supports women in business, 33 US business schools will be invited to supply a list of at least five women they deem to be board ready. Schools include: Babson College, Columbia Business School, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, Harvard Business School, NYU Stern and MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Forté became aware of the EU initiative when its business school members in Europe - HEC Paris and Insead in France, IE Business School in Spain, London Business School and SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy - signed up to a call to action launched in September 2011. Keen to get involved, the organisation requested a meeting with Commissioner Viviane Reding...

Video of Brussels' panel on the importance for EU of Management, Santiago Iñiguez, Alexander von Gabain, Adrian Wooldridge

Management Skills for Growth: EFMD EU Affairs Call to Action

Adrian Wooldridge (Management Editor, The Economist), Alexander von Gabain (Chair of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology - EIT  and Santiago Iniguez (President of IE Business School and President of IE University) gave opening statements at the EFMD April Roundtable: Management Skills for Growth. A full report on the roundtable is available here and video highlights are below. Readers are also invited to comment on the EFMD Call To Action “Management Capacity: The Missing Link to set up value creation and innovation in Europe” by mid June 2012.

Three key suggestions concluded from this roundtable are:

• Re-inventing the EU innovation model: The current European innovation strategy design tends to be based on a stable evolutionary model. This approach needs to be changed. The idea of supporting the creation of high-growth companies in Europe is highlighted as an important element. It is also suggested to re-prioritise policy objectives, to avoid trying to achieve everything at the sametime. Too many equivalent priorities lead to no priorities.
  
  
• Developing skills for future leaders: There is a call to develop humanistic managers who are not only expert in management techniques, but also have the capacity to understand and deal with cross-disciplinary and inter-cultural issues.
  
  
• Entrepreneurship: The possibility to exploit knowledge and capital from all entrepreneurs needs to be further addressed. Entrepreneurial mid-sets are required in all types of organisations, small and large, pubic and private.

The Call to Action addresses key issues such as the inclusions of management education in scientific and engineering studies, supporting entrepreneurial mind-sets and values from school-level onwards, and providing community research funding for important fields such as design thinking, open innovation and organisational sociology. This paper is to be used as the essential basis for EFMD EU Affairs’ interactions with the EU policy makers as well as relevant consultation and networking activities in the coming future. You are invited to comment on the EFMD Call to Action, please send your comments and feedback to: jocelyne.wang@efmd.org

Martine Plompen, Associate Director, Research & Surveys Unit, EFMD
Jocelyne Wang, Manager, EU Affairs Unit, EFMD

E&Y: Only 27% of business leaders are aware of the European Commission’s efforts to promote innovation

Ernst & Young: Toward a smarter and streamlined innovation policy in the EU "Growing beyond Summit" (PDF)

Limited awareness

• 27% are aware of the European Commission’s efforts to promote innovation

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London, 8 May 2012 – Business and EU innovation policy not working effectively to produce economic benefits

Few senior business leaders across Europe are aware of the European Union’s significant investment in innovation in recent years according to a study launched today by Ernst & Young and the Centre for European Policy Studies, The Power of Simplicity. The study surveyed 680 business leaders from 15 EU Member States and found that 73% of respondents, many of whom have to make the key decisions about private sector investment in Europe such as presidents and chief executives, were not aware of EU policies to improve innovation. In addition, 69% believe innovation policy in the EU has not matched industry needs.

NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2012

NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2012, 14th - 16th February, Mumbai

World Leadership Survey of Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)

World Leadership Survey

What keeps leaders across the globe up at night? What issues are most important to their business? CCL is currently conducting a groundbreaking World Leadership Survey with leaders like yourself from around the globe participating.

This survey provides information on trends in leadership wherever it happens, as well as issues that leaders have to deal with every day such as what employees want in their leaders, trust and ethics in effective organizations, employee engagement and retention, generational differences, and attitudes about work. The survey is administered online in 15 different languages and will provide greater insight and a more personal perspective on leadership practices from every corner of the world.

It will take about 20 minutes. To thank you for helping us, you will receive a free CCL Guidebook when you finish the survey. Thank you for helping us gather knowledge you can put to work!

Click here to participate in the survey: https://surveys.clearpicture.com/ccl/

QuickView Leadership Series

• The Innovation Equation for Leaders: People + Context = Innovation
  CCL research shows why creative people and a workplace that fosters innovation must both be present for innovation to thrive. (PDF 1.7 MB)
• Motivated by the Organization's Mission or Their Career?
  Our research examines how leaders in public and private institutions can motivate and retain valued employees through complexity and change. (PDF 2.3 MB)
• Focus on Africa: Employee Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility
  Special report on attitudes about corporate social responsibility among African employees. (PDF, 2.6 MB)
• Focus on Africa: Workplace Attitudes
  Special report on workplace attitudes among African employees. (PDF, 3.6 MB)
• Annual Report on Workplace Attitudes
  Despite everything that has been going on in the economy, executives, managers, and professional employees are pretty positive, but there are warning signs about the future. (PDF, 2.2 MB)
• Building Trust in the Workplace: A Key to Retaining Women
  What organizations need to know about trust today, and how to improve it. (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• Employee Engagement: Has It Been a Bull Market?
  How the economy has affected employee engagement, and what organizations need to worry about now. (PDF, 1.4 MB)
• Employee Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility
  How employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility really affect employee loyalty. (PDF, 3.3 MB)

Professor/Director Liz Mellon, book "Inside the Leader’s Mind: Five Ways to Think Like a Leader"

The Thinkers 50 interview

Amazon, "Inside the Leader’s Mind: Five Ways to Think Like a Leader", FT Press; 1 edition (June 30, 2011), 232 pages

Elizabeth Mellon has been Executive Director of Duke Corporate Education, a global learning and development corporation, since 2004. Previously she spent twelve years in the Department of Trade and Industry before taking a MBA and PhD at LBS. At LBS she was Professor of Organizational Behaviour and also served as Director of the Senior Executive Programme, the London Business School's flagship program for senior executives. During the same period, she also taught on, and directed, the School's Global Consortium Programme.

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.

LeadProgram.org - enabling youth of diverse backgrounds

www.leadprogram.org

Lead Global

2012 Program Dates

• Univ. of Virginia/Darden Dates TBD
• DUKE/The Fuqua School June 16-July 6
• Stanford University June 29-July 21
• Univ. of Michigan/Ross School July 8-27
• Northwestern/The Kellogg School Dates TBD
• Dartmouth College/Tuck Dates TBD
• UPENN/Wharton School July 1-28
• Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign July 8-27

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi: video of Rajmohan Gandhi at Brown University

Via @BrownUniversity, RT by @SantiagoIniguez

YouTube Brownuniversity 03/12/2009
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of one of the 20th century's most revered and peaceful activists, speaks about the links between Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Hard Knocks - a decade of NFL training camps

HBO´s Hard Knocks

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel Pink

www.danpink.com/drive

Daniel H. Pink is an American author and journalist. From 1995 to 1997, he worked for Vice President Al Gore in the capacity of chief speechwriter, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.^[1]

Drive, #1 New York Times bestseller

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money--the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink in Drive. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction--at work, at school, and at home--is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does-and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation--autonomy, mastery, and purpose--and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Top Companies for Leaders 2011 FORTUNE - Study Results

Top Companies for Leaders 2011 Study Results

Read the FORTUNE article on the study

View the list of winners

It's been two years since Fortune last published this list, which we produce in association with Aon Hewitt Consulting. Aon Hewitt, in partnership with RBL Group, started by surveying HR executives at 478 companies worldwide about their leadership development programs. Aon Hewitt then interviewed executives at 182 global finalists, drilling into their leadership strategy, succession planning, techniques for identifying high-potential junior employees, and much more. A panel of distinguished judges, including authors, academics, and journalists, then gathered to select the regional and global winners.

Reinhold Messner interview, probably the best climber ever.

Reinhold Messner (Wikipedia)

Interview (2006) with Carlos Barrabés

.@Edurne_Pasaban, first woman to climb World's 14 8000m+ peaks to teach coaching at IE Business School

Via @SantiagoIniguez

@Edurne_Pasaban

Edurne Pasaban (Wikipedia, EN)

www.edurnepasaban.com/quien_es/  (English flag for English)

7/10/2010 News of the coaching in Expansión (in Spanish)

Why MBA Programs Don't Produce Leaders - Forbes

Leadership Article of Forbes, 10/04/2011

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), over 150,000 students graduate with their MBA in the United States every year. That’s a whopping 25% of all Master’s recipients (compared to Computer & Information Science at only 3%).

Business Schools Have An Identity Crisis

A Change In Image, Not Substance

What Continues To Plague MBA Programs

Leaders Aren’t Created In A Classroom

Pension funds, economies of scale? + the empathy gap

Something for the weekend, Financial Times, September 16, 2011.

Debate - The role of business schools in advancing sustainability - The Guardian

• How can business schools teach complex sustainability issues to the leaders of tomorrow?
• This was the topic up for discussion in our recent live chat. Read a summary of the debate here (September 6, 2011)

To read the full discussion, please click here (July 27, 2011).

MIT Unravels the Secrets Behind Collective Intelligence – Hint: IQ Not So Important

Singularity Hub, August 26, 2011.

When it comes to a successful group, the easiest way to ensure victory may be placing women on the team. MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence seeks to understand how humans get better (or worse) at solving problems as they work together. They studied hundreds of people working in small groups and found that they could determine a “C factor”, a key statistic that would predict if a group could perform well in a variety of tasks.

... Surprisingly, many common sense variables like group cohesion, motivation, and satisfaction simply didn’t seem to matter much. Instead, MIT determined that groups with a high C factor were mostly defined by:

• the high average social sensitivity of group members
• a high rate of sharing who gets to communicate
• more females

Daniel Goleman: 'Leaders Must Position Their Employees Somewhere between Boredom and Stress'

On Wikpedia

Goleman received his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he has also been a visiting lecturer. ... He is a co-chairman of The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University...

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Uni>ersia Knowledge Wharton, August 18, 2011

With his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence, author, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman sparked widespread interest in the role that our emotions play in thought, decision making and individual success. The book became an international bestseller and Goleman has subsequently earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations and landed on the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change's list of the ten most outstanding intellectuals in the world...

...“Using the framework of emotional intelligence, companies can calculate with greater precision the chances that any individual will succeed than if they only evaluated his or her intellectual coefficient," Goleman noted, adding that the most academically successful student in a high school or college graduating class may have “wound up having inferior success at work compared with [someone] who was just an average student. The difference between the two is that the average student has been able not only to control his own emotions, but also positively influence groups of other workers. Everyone wants to work with him.”...

Steve Jobs: A Biography

On Amazon

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: A Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.

Hardcover: 448 pages

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (March 6, 2012)

Dean R. Glenn Hubbard of the Columbia Business School - WSJ - on Disclosure, Leading, Ethics

Article of the Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2011.

R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, wants his students to make connections—and not just through networking.

He blames the recent financial crisis on a failure by leaders to successfully see the big picture, focusing instead on their area of expertise. Not connecting the dots, he says, was disastrous.

In Mr. Hubbard's view, business schools must prepare students with a broader education in order to thwart an economic meltdown. To that end, Columbia is deliberately weaving topics such as decision-making and ethics into classes across all disciplines...

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Excerpts:

WSJ: You've taken some heat for how the movie "Inside Job" portrayed your, and professors', disclosures [including dollars earned] of outside activities. Has Columbia changed its approach to any of this?

Mr. Hubbard: Despite what you might have seen in "Inside Job," we have a lot of disclosure. We just tightened it as a faculty, a project we've worked on since 2009. I've always disclosed what I do, my sources of income and relationships, that's how he knew what to ask me. We've now moved to a system where all faculty will do that. Basically, faculty résumés will [show] outside activities just like they [show] publications and teaching.

WSJ: What was the expectation before?

Mr. Hubbard: I've always done it [made disclosures] because I'm a dean. But the faculty did not have to do that. The faculty were always supposed to report if they received money to support research, that's just a matter of professional ethics...

President Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania, interview with The New York Times

New York Times, June 18, 2011

...those two things are really important about leadership, to have courage and to be farsighted in your vision, not to be just reacting to the next small challenge...

Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week - Frederick E. Allen

Leadership view blog, May 24, 2011.

We wanted to get out this week, with all that beautiful spring weather out there, but we found ourselves inside watching others get out instead...

Tuck hosts leadership conference: 40 of the US´s most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations

The Dartmouth.com, May 2, 2011

Tuck School of Business and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers partnered for the first time to host 40 of the nation’s most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations, according to M. Eric Johnson, a science of administration professor and director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck. The week-long leadership insitute, which took place between April 26 and April 30, was designed to help participants manage changes in their industry and to reinforce business, leadership and critical thinking skills necessary to remain competitive in an increasingly technological world, according to the Institute’s online brochure...Participants were also exposed to a variety of guest speakers such as Glenn Britt ’71, chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Cable Inc.

...“The key thing to understand about the cable industry is that you need to follow the changes in technology,” he said. “The industry is so fiercely competitive that without learning this innovative strategy and financial accounting it’s hard to succeed.”

The World’s Best Companies for Leadership - Frederick E. Allen - Forbes Leadership View

Post of January 25, 2011

What businesses most expect their employees to lead, and best prepare their employees to lead? It’s very, very hard to say, of course, but the management consultancy Hay Group tries. It just released its ranking of the world’s 20 “best companies for leadership.” The champion: General Electric.

Hay Group polled 3,769 individuals and 1,827 organizations worldwide...

Recovering from information overload - McKinsey

McKinsey Quarterly, January 2011

Always-on, multitasking work environments are killing productivity, dampening creativity, and making us unhappy.

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A body of scientific evidence demonstrates fairly conclusively that multitasking makes human beings less productive, less creative, and less able to make good decisions. If we want to be effective leaders, we need to stop.

15 Inspiring Biographies for Aspiring Leaders

Post of bschool.com, January 5th, 2011.

From Homeless to MBA - video

Today's Financial Times Rankings 2008 - Executive Education

Today's Financial Times Rankings 2008 - Executive Education

Open Rankings

1.  Harvard Business School (U.S.A.)
2.  University of Virginia: Darden (U.S.A.)
3.  IMD (Switzerland)  and 3. Stanford University GSB (U.S.A.)   
5.  IE Business School (Spain)      
6.  Center for Creative Leadership (U.S.A. / Belgium / Singapore)   
7.  Iese Business School (Spain)
8.  Columbia Business School (U.S.A.)   
9.  UCLA: Anderson (U.S.A.)      
10. University of Western Ontario: Ivey (Canada / China)

Executive Education rankings 2008

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Exec Ed 2008 special report

FT business education writers present analysis of the results, interviews, profiles and the latest campus news. Read

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CEOs' First Jobs

Via Forbes.com, 10/26/2007

Macy's, Xerox, McDonalds, Keynote Systems and Sun Microsystems.