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Academic Concerns

October 28, 2020

Unanticipated Consequences of a Potential Baby Bust

Although the early warning signs that an inflection point is on the way are often detectable years, even decades, in advance, trying to time most inflection points is incredibly frustrating.  Not so with demographics.  In… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Case Studies and Applications, Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks

October 11, 2018

Meet Alexander Osterwalder in person at Columbia workshop October 23

A great opportunity to meet my good friend and colleague, Alexander Osterwalder who will be visiting us at Columbia later this month! Invitation for Senior Leaders in Established Companies to Attend  an Interactive Lecture-Workshop on… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Business School, Innovation

June 21, 2016

Agony and ecstasy for young lawyers

For some time, I’ve suggested that law schools provide a cautionary tale for the rest of us.  With many graduates loaded down with big debt and with few prospects for taking jobs that actually require… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Thought Sparks, Transient Advantage

November 29, 2015

New Women’s Leadership Course to be Launched in June

Anyone who has been following the coverage of women in the workplace, for example, this series in the Wall Street Journal, knows the general story line.  Professional women enter workplaces in numbers roughly equal to men,… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Business School, Executive Education, Women's leadership

November 25, 2013

The Future of Business Education – Panel at the Thinkers50 Event

Des Dearlove of the Thinkers50 chaired an amazing panel on November 11, 2013 entitled “The Future of Business Education”.  It was sponsored by Dean Santiago Iniguez of the IE business school, and featured as panelists… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Business School, Executive Education, Uncategorized

September 5, 2013

Will the legal establishment allow a two-year law school?

CNBC reports that President Obama is quoted as saying that law schools would “probably be wise” to move away from three-year programs to two. Who will fight like crazy to prevent two-year schools from being… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, News Archives

May 22, 2013

Transient Advantage: New article in HBR

In a new article featured in the June Harvard Business Review, I offer a summary of my new book.  Essentially, that strategy is stuck!  We've locked ourselves into a view of strategy that depends on… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Articles, Business School, Executive Education

November 13, 2009

The schizophrenic life of an academic

Today’s Wall Street Journal had a fascinating article about the heated competition to become America’s Top College Professor.  Aside from being personally inspiring (as someone who spent a lot of years trying to figure out… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Business School

July 7, 2009

Unintended side effects of post-9/11 fear of flying

Garrick Blalock, Vrinda Kadiyali and Daniel H. Simon, writing in the journal Applied Economics (June 2009 – Volume 41, issue 14, pg. 1717) came to a fascinating conclusion.  After the highly dramatic 9/11 attacks, many… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, News Archives

May 12, 2009

Academic language…you have to wonder

My colleague, Ian MacMillan, brought to my attention the abstract for a paper on sleep deprivation and team performance which appeared in the most recent edition of one of our academic journals.  It reads, as… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns

October 14, 2008

Discovery Driven Planning & Teaching in Non-Degree Executive Education Programs

I’m just here at the Strategic Management Society’s annual conference in Cologne.  It’s a meeting which aspires to bring together academics, consultants and business-people for fruitful dialogue and exchanges, although in fairness the tilt does… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Case Studies and Applications, Discovery Driven Planning, Executive Education

February 4, 2008

Business School Rankings:  Hungry for Lists?

Anyone who enjoys watching the various business schools get sliced and diced by reviewers will get a kick out of the Financial Times report on business school rankings.  Absolutely no shortage of lists in their… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns

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