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As the kids go back to school, how are the adults educating themselves? Check out these story links:
Making Innovation Happen
As the kids go back to school, how are the adults educating themselves? Check out these story links:
You’ve made it so far in your career without an MBA. Is now the time to work for one, or are you too old?
Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum I just got off the phone with Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the U of Toronto, who told me that corporations are flocking to his institution to learn integrative thinking (design thinking). I've heard the same thing from innovation consultancies who are setting up their own "universities" to teach design thinking to corporate managers.
Questions to be Answered How does the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) improve corporate governance? Does customer profitability increase using the BSC? Can BSC measures reduce the gap between strategy and execution? Does the BSC work in testing strategy?
If a successful analyst is hired by another organization, chances are both his work performance and the market value of his new company will not reap the expected benefits; they might even lose altitude. So discovered HBS professor Boris Groysberg and colleagues Ashish Nanda and Nitin Nohria, who detailed their results four years ago in the Harvard Business Review article, "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Since launching his research into the war for talent, however, Groysberg has started to notice something quite different about the career paths of successful analysts who were female. Star women, he found, maintained their shine even after switching companies. Unlike their male peers, they thrived in new work environments. Why the difference?