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The after-sales-based business models of industrial enterprises are endangered. Simultaneously, modern data-based technologies enable the development of complex service solutions – so...
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Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...
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Where do you Begin with your (Big) Data Initiative?
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While “Big data” has garnered a lot of attention over the last number of years, many managers struggle in deciding where to...
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
Negotiating Advice for Women: The Problem-Solving Conversation
“You can’t improve on a skill that you’re avoiding,” says Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard. “Many people shy away from negotiations because they associate...
5 Myths about Employee Learning
Here are some common misperceptions about corporate education— and how to get beyond them.
Under what circumstances do organizations embrace a learning culture?
Often, it’s when...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...
Challenging Stereotypes: The Women’s Executive Leadership Programme at Berkeley Executive Education
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Professor of Leadership, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
UC Berkeley’s Women’s Executive Leadership Programme is unique: it was designed by women...
Through the Ceiling and Over the Cliff? Catch-22 for Women Executives
A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
Leading Innovation through Executive Education
Interview with Professor Saul Estrin, LSE
In today’s fast-changing global environment, business leaders need new tools to face new challenges like never before. Innovation is...
Incorporate Innovation into your Business Model
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Innovation is a surefire way to achieve growth and success for your company. Below Jeff Rosenthal, CEO of the UC Berkeley...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark
Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
How We Teach: Innovation
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In our quest to keep you up to date with the latest research in business education, we talk to John...
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
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Leadership: The Science Behind Practice Makes Perfect
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Strong leadership is arguably the most important aspect of running a business, but today's leaders are required to operate...
Wharton: Where Entrepreneurs Learn the Business of Business
Max Baumann’s company Just Chill started with an idea for a beverage that could help people stay cool and calm. “Stress is the number...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
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Women’s Leadership: Leaning in Without Falling Over
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A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
New Models and the Changing Contexts of Business School
By Peter Lorange, Jagdish N. Sheth and Howard Thomas
The traditional models of many business schools are being questioned given their serious...
Collaborative Creativity: Leading High Performance through Theatre
By Quinn Bauriedel & Jeff Klein
Like the multitude of teams in any organization, theatre works under tight timeframes, combines many individuals with different talents,...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 2: Understanding the Core of the Vision
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
This article continues from Part I (in the last issue of...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 1: Designing a Radically New Vision of...
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Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for...
The Hedgehog Effect: Building High Performance Teams
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You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. — Galileo Galilee
The organizations we...
Leadership Development and The High Performing Team: The Wharton Leadership Program
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One thing that I’ve never needed to convince an incoming Wharton MBA student is that they should become a leader.
By now, our...
Developing Values in Business Education
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This article considers how we might best prepare students for ethical business practice. It considers recent developments in evolutionary research and neuroscience...
STUDY IN AUSTRIA IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems
Krems – a small but vibrant university town
Krems is the eastern gateway to the Wachau Valley and only a one hour drive from...
Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset
By Nakiye A. Boyacigiller
We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved...
The Search for Innovation Leadership
By Jeff Gaspersz
What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?
In all the years I...
Challenging the “Tailor” How to Effectively Customize Executive Education for the Companies’ Benefit
By Andreas Löhmer
When it comes to executive education, companies very often accept second best solutions. Looking at the impact achieved, these investments do not...
Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
By Winfried Ruigrok
Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...
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