New building to give Sheridan room to grow
College degree programs in business are proving popular with students, with one Ontario institution expanding its footprint to meet demand.
Sheridan College has announced plans for a 220,000-square-foot building to open in fall 2016 at its Mississauga campus, named for the municipality鈥檚 long-serving and just-retired mayor Hazel McCallion. The new building will house an expanded business faculty and other disciplines.
Henry Mintzberg receives 平特五不中 Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Learning
Henry Mintzberg has received the 2014 平特五不中 Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Learning for his extraordinary contributions to teaching and learning at the University over the last four decades.
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Trium tops FT Executive MBA programme rankings 2014
For the first time in six years, a new challenger has topped the FT鈥檚 ranking of executive MBA programmes.
鈥淟os bonus de los ejecutivos destruyen las compa帽铆as鈥�
No le gustan los MBA. No le gusta George W. Bush. No le gustan los disparatados bonus de los ejecutivos. No le gusta el enorme poder de las grandes corporaciones en nuestras vidas. Y sostiene, con alarma, que se est谩n dando algunas condiciones en Estados Unidos similares a las de la Alemania e Italia de principios de los a帽os treinta del siglo pasado.
Universities experiment with their own MOOCs
Some three years after the first U.S. MOOC was launched to great fanfare, massive open online courses are becoming part of the higher-ed mainstream. Some of the largest Canadian universities are expanding their course offerings and applying the lessons they learn to the benefit of paying, on-campus students.
FGV/EBAPE offers 4th edition of the International Master鈥檚 Program in Rio de Janeiro
From today (23rd) until October 3, the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE) of Funda莽茫o Getulio Vargas will hold the fourth edition of the听International Master鈥檚 in Practicing Management (IMPM), an international Master鈥檚 program focused on management practices in Brazil.
Chef de file de l鈥櫭ヽonomie sociale et de l鈥檌nvestissement responsable
La carte d鈥檃ffaires de la Caisse d鈥櫭ヽonomie solidaire Desjardins se lit comme suit听: principale institution financi猫re consacr茅e 脿 l鈥櫭ヽonomie sociale et 脿 l鈥檌nvestissement socialement responsable (ISR) au Qu茅bec. Elle soutient financi猫rement pr猫s de 3000 coop茅ratives, organismes 脿 but non lucratif, syndicats et entreprises socialement engag茅es.
Extraordinary Pakistanis
It takes a certain type of courage to bite the hand that feeds you. Dr Shahid Qureshi is a fierce critic of the way business schools churn out graduates in Pakistan and elsewhere in the world.听
There's no such thing as a strategic plan
'Strategic' and 'Plan' are two different concepts. A strategy iswhat听we need to do to get from A to B (and deciding on what point B actually is). The plan is more specific and tells ushow听we will get to point B (the details).
Henry Mintzberg receives 2014 CK Prahalad Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award
Professor Henry Mintzberg has been selected to receive the 2014 CK Prahalad Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award given by the Strategic Management Society. This prize, created in 2011 to honour the legacy of CK Prahalad, is awarded annually to a scholar-practitioner who has used applied learning to influence how theory and research guide practice. Special attention is given to a scholar-practitioner whose contributions have shaped the understanding of global strategic leadership.
The worth of academic research for business
The value of research is best realised when academics are prepared to descend from their rarefied elevations and recognise that practitioners have an important role to play in knowledge production.
New 鈥榃ellWiki鈥� to Provide Info on Every Oil and Gas Well in Canada
Finding information about oil and gas wells is about to become easier thanks to a new website that aims to provide data on all the wells drilled in Canada and the United States since 1859.
Customer Centric Metrics rescue retailer from Strategic Eccentrics: Customers take care of The Profits
Tom Peters has long argued the case for Customer Centricity. At the 2011 Progress Conference he said; 鈥淭he magic formula that business has revealed is to treat their customers like guests and their employees like people.鈥� So what is his 2013 take on strategy and leadership? Think of this as 鈥淭om Peter鈥檚 Balanced Scorecard鈥�.
La semaine de trois jours pr么n茅e par Carlos Slim
La proposition de Carlos Slim d鈥檜ne semaine de travail de trois jours semble folle. Mais beaucoup, en 1922, pensaient Henry Ford fou quand il a annonc茅 que son personnel travaillerait cinq jours par semaine.
World鈥檚 second richest man calls for three-day working week
Carlos Slim鈥檚 proposal that we work a three-day week sounds crazy. But many, in 1922, thought听Henry Ford听crazy when he announced that his staff would work a five-day week.
