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October 29, 2016

Growth insights in a 45 minute Facebook live session!

No Powerpoints, no notes, just the team at Harvard Business Review, terrific and astute questions from viewers and a white board.  Check out this free Facebook Live session that has already garnered over 132,000 views. In more news –… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Discovery Driven Planning, Event Announcements, Executive Education, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

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

October 28, 2015

Now in development: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship On-Line

What if you could take teams of people or individual contributors with an innovation mandate and have them go through a state of the art, hands-on and very applied journey through the essence of innovation… Read more »

Filed Under: Business School, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Executive Education, Profitable Organic Growth, Uncategorized

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

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

April 29, 2011

Free Webinar On Business Model Challenges and Innovation

Business Model Erosion and Innovation to combat this phenomenon is very much a topic of concern for strategists and innovators.  In this free half-hour webinar sponsored by Columbia Business School Executive Education, I reflect on… Read more »

Filed Under: Executive Education, Innovation, Videos

April 28, 2011

Thought for the day on developing people

A LinkedIn exchange that was forwarded to me by a colleague:   What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave the company?"   CEO answers, 'What happens if we don't,… Read more »

Filed Under: Executive Education

April 12, 2011

Complimentary webinar on recent HBR article “failing by design” April 19 1pm

Join me in an on-line discussion of the recent HBR article, "Failing By Design."  The webinar will help attendees understand the concept of intelligent failure, in which when inevitably, things don't go as you expect, you… Read more »

Filed Under: Executive Education, Innovation

November 30, 2009

A coming chronic shortage of leaders – and what your company should be thinking about

In a recent Business Week article entitled The Coming Fight for Executive Talent, Claudio Fernandez-Araoz of search firm Egon Zehnder argues that the number of managers in the right age bracket for leadership roles will… Read more »

Filed Under: Executive Education

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

November 3, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: Business School, Executive Education

September 21, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: Business School, Executive Education

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