The IMPM Innovations & Teaching Approach
The International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) programme is 18 years old but continues to be seen as one the world鈥檚 most innovative senior management degree programmes. Leslie Breitner and Dora Koop explain how the programme has retained its freshness for so long.
Run For The Hills: They Want To Send You On A Management Training Course!
Phil and I remember being younger managers in large multinationals (IBM for me) back in the 90鈥瞫, and in my case, the 80鈥瞫. We were sent to a variety of short training courses, and we honestly can鈥檛 say that we remember anything they tried to teach us. Except for one lesson. In fact, it was so powerful that we never forgot it.
IMHL Collaborators Win Grand Challenges Canada Grant
Students in 涩里番鈥檚 International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL) program -- Drs.
Developing the international management mindset
Despite the relative slowdown in its rate of growth recently, it seems more than possible that China can expect to become the world鈥檚 leading economic power at some point in the foreseeable future.
"Seizing Opportunity in Emerging Fields: How Institutional Entrepreneurs Legitimated the Professional Form of Management Consulting," Organization Science
Authors: David, Robert; Sine, Wesley; Haveman, Heather
Publication: Organization Science, March/April 2013
Abstract:
鈥楥ommunity-ship is the only way鈥�
鈥淕overnments all over the world have reached a point where they can do nothing at all for the society,鈥� opened Henry Mintzberg, celebrated academician, author and faculty at the 涩里番 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In town for a talk at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) on Tuesday, the author also said that it was time people stopped looking at their respective governments for solutions.
In Defense of the CEO
A $90,000 area rug, a pair of guest chairs that cost almost as much, a $35,000 toilet and a $1,400 trash can鈥攖hese are just a few of the expenses from a remodeling of John Thain's office when he took over as Merrill Lynch's chief executive officer in December 2007. The total bill came to an astonishing $1.2 million鈥攁bout the price of five average single-family homes.
Young People Stop Just Texting Me And Give Me A Call Once In A While! PLZ Part Deux
This week is the 20th anniversary of the 1st text. As a middle aged person I have mixed feeling about this. I can鈥檛 decide if it鈥檚 got worst or maybe better. This week I got messages by text, email, Twitter, Facebook, voice mail, phone, cell phone, in person and a fax! The fax brought back some fond memories 鈥� it鈥檚 been a while.
The wrong direction
To mark the journal鈥檚 90th anniversary, the Harvard Business Review website has run a series of blogs and articles under the strapline 鈥淲hy Management Matters鈥�. Alas, the content does not engage with the proposition itself, taking the importance of management for granted.
Change and Continuity: Mintzberg and Kotter Agree, You Must Manage Both
It seems every Business School professor starts by saying how much the world has changed鈥� 鈥� that was Henry Mintzberg鈥檚 opening to a session on change, not unsurprisingly Henry takes a different tack. He points out that continuity is as important as change. We are co-teaching strategy to a group of Chinese executives today, and I had to sheepishly admit I had done just that earlier in the day!
-Article by Karl Moore
It's time to rebalance our sectors and society
Governments and corporations can't be relied upon to provide solutions to our biggest problems 鈥� instead we must look to ourselves that we face serious problems 鈥� poverty amid plenty, the degradation of our physical, social, and economic environments, terrorism by fanatic cells and rogue states, and so on 鈥� is clear. But how our established institutions 鈥� governments and businesses 鈥� deal with them, even when responsive and responsible, is not. We need another way.
Henry Mintzberg On What Is Wrong With Our Economy and How To Begin To Fix It
Henry Mintzberg is one of the most thoughtful and provocative thinkers in management today. He has a new electronic pamphlet coming out called 鈥淩ebalancing Society.鈥� In this interview Henry tells what he thinks is wrong with our economies and what might be the way forward.
-Article by Karl Moore
In 1973, Managers Could Work 23 Minutes Without Distraction. And Today?
A study of business managers reports the following findings:
Managers scarcely have time to start on a new task or to sit down before they are interrupted.
Only 12 times in the study did the manager succeed in working undisturbed in his office for at least 23 minutes.
鈥淭he brevity of many of the manager鈥檚 activities is most surprising鈥alf of the observed activities were completed in less than nine minutes, and only one tenth took more than an hour.
Growing Together: Synthetic Teamwork
In Henry Mintzberg鈥檚 1994 landmark book, 鈥淭he Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning,鈥� the author calls for a new method to create effective strategies. He notes that 鈥淪trategic planning isn鈥檛 strategic thinking. One is analysis, the other is synthesis.鈥�
Finding happiness the MBA way
These days, when Jesper Hornberg goes to work he's likely to be stepping into a mud hut in Kenya, checking on a solar lamp. He's the founder of an NGO called Givewatts, which is trying to reduce dependence on kerosene lamps. Rather than having to work in the poor light given off by kerosene, children whose families have his lamps can now see well enough to do their homework. In some cases, their school test scores have increased by 50%.
