Thinking Globally, Acting Regionally
As an Ohio native, I never imagined my home state would be a hotbed for green business. On a gloomy day last December, however, while talking with an old family friend about my plans to start a sustainable MBA program, I learned of the Northwest Ohio Alternative Energy (NOAE) Business Council. This unlikely alliance based in the industrial city of Toledo, Ohio, can teach us all a lesson about the importance and advantages of collaboration in the world of sustainable business.
Little did I know, Northwest Ohio has a rich history of renewable energy development that started in 1984 with Glasstech Solar. Foreseeing the impending market need for cleaner, more efficient and cost effective energy sources, my friend, Norm Johnston, saw the advantages of looking beyond his engineering and business background and formed NOAE. With the goal to make Ohio a leader in renewable energy, Johnston and the NOAE forged strategic alliances with financial and educational institutions.
For example, when the August 2003 East Coast blackout proved to many that our current power system just doesnt work, NOAE saw the business opportunity in this crisis. Their financially viable solution: capitalize on the photovoltaic (PV) market.
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Rosa Oppenheim Appointed Acting Dean of Rutgers Business School
Provost Steven J. Diner has announced the appointment of Rosa Oppenheim, PhD, as acting dean of Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick (RBS), effective June 14, 2006. Howard Tuckman, who served as RBS dean for a number of years, is moving to the Graduate School of Business Administration at Fordham University.
Rosa Oppenheim has provided outstanding leadership as associate dean of RBS for many years, and as acting dean in 1998, noted Provost Diner. President McCormick and I are deeply grateful for her willingness to assume the leadership of RBS
LBS representatives recently participated in an online chat about diversity, admissions, work experience expectations, and other issues
London Business School offers one of the top MBA programs in Europe. If you're thinking of going to graduate school outside of the U.S., it might be at the top of your list of possibilities. Recently potential applicants signed on to a live chat event with David Simpson (DavidLBS), acting associate dean for the full-time MBA program at LBS, and LBS student Manish Gajria (ManishLBS). The session was moderated by BusinessWeek reporter Francesca Di Meglio (FrancescaBW). Here is an edited transcript of the
Designing a new MBA
Lets do a simple word-association test. What comes to mind when I say MBA? If words like smug, overpaid, ruthless and sense of entitlement come to mind, you wont be far from the views of many in the business world. A few years ago, Federal Express even produced a TV commercial with a stereotypical MBA as its central character, claiming that Fedex shipping was so simple even an MBA can do it.
So you may not be losing much sleep over the notion that business schools are facing a crisis of confidence, one that is causing business and
Suggestion: Before you think about an MBA, first take a course or two in general writing skills. Im not saying this to be offensive or snide, but to help. If the way you expressed your question is indicative of your overall writing skills, an MBA will not overcome your inability to accurately express your thinking in the kinds of documents managers are expected to be able to produce.
Once you have that out of the way, it will be time to think about the question you asked.
Luckily for me, theres no right answer. If you choose a path based on current
The board of governors of the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) has zeroed in on Vivek Bhandari of Hampshire College, US as director.
The position was vacant since LK Vaswani resigned from the post four months ago.
The institute is also trying to double the strength of the faculty that was weakened by the exit of a few prominent professors from IRMA over the past few months. “The new director of IRMA will take charge in May 2007. We are also on a recruitment drive to double our faculty strength,” said YK Alagh, chairman, IRMA and noted scholar and economist. Meanwhile,
Indian Institute of Management, Indore will be conducting a three-day Management Development Programme (MDP) on Strategic Thinking for Business Managers during September 3-5, 2007 in Mumbai.
Prof. G R Chandrashekhar and Prof. Prashant Salwan are the programme directors. The programme is targeted at managers with leadership responsibilities, business heads and members of top management team.
According to information shared by IIM-I with MBAUniverse.com, This programme will provide the participants with a conceptual frame to understand and develop the managing organic and non-organic growth of a firm, evaluating myriad of growth opportunities, developing strategic choices and implementing the chosen strategy in
Big is the buzz word in the business parlance today. Those who wish to succeed in life have to be ambitious, pragmatic, hopeful and confident about their future and ever ready to make it big. The bigger you think and act, the bigger will be your success. The ability to look at the future with an overwhelming confidence is a great quality that an entrepreneur must possess. To foresee what kind of products or services are going to pick up demand in future, and plan in that direction is what will pay a entrepreneur endowed with the quality of far-sightedness.
The ability to listen. At Bharat Petroleum, it is this quality which plays a vital role in our everyday lives. Simply because, now more than ever, it is critical to listen to your voice What does listening mean? To us, it means respecting your opinions. Understanding your problems. Learning from your suggestions And more than anything else, it means acting on them. Which is why, we have started a program to find out exactly what you think of us. The program, modestly titled- Talk To Us- asks you to do just that. How do you talk to us? Its simple,
Direction: What is the next step towards a global thinking company, which already enjoys the label that his name of a Business School? (Empty, the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.) An export licence programme, of course.
What is the next step towards a global thinking company, which already enjoys the label that his name of a Business School? (Empty, the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.) An export licence programme, of course.
In January, the Australian Simon University - the first private Graduate School of Business Administration