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 »
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Management Techniques actually work!
If you didn’t catch the article by Scott Thurm in today’s Wall Street Journal, you should check it out. He reports that researchers from Stanford University, the London School of Economics and the consulting firm… Read more »
The field of management enslaved by theory?
Don Hambrick, one of the management field’s leading academics comments on the way the field relies on theory in a recent Business Week: Viewpoint January 13, 2008, 4:06PM EST The Theory Fetish: Too Much of… Read more »
Business Development Resources for New Entrepreneurs
As a sometime professor of entrepreneurship, I'm frequently approached by would-be entrepreneurs for help in fleshing out their business plans. While I enjoy doing this, it could very easily become a full-time job! I've therefore… Read more »
Columbia Faculty on “What is the Entrepreneurial Mindset”
Entrepreneurship is one of those terms that’s a bit like the old saw about art or pornography – “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it”. If you want to bring… Read more »
Columbia Business School offers one of the best “spare time” B Schools in Business Week
Business Week has just published its highly influential rankings of executive MBA and Executive Education programs, and I’m pleased and proud to note that Columbia has not only done well, but improved its position considerably… Read more »
Observations on educational institutions
Two books which challenge the current way educational institutions organize themselves are now out, and they are both a fascinating read. Rakesh Khurana’s book From Higher Aims to Hired Hands traces the evolution and development… Read more »
How much does the prestige of a university matter to business?
I was recently asked to consider whether the prestige of a university matters at all in the business world. I’d say it does. One place you see it make a huge difference is when companies… Read more »