Alma mater
and IESE's position worldwide: #12 Executive Education programs - Open enrollment, Business Week #12 Executive Education programs - Customized curriculum, Business Week #16 Executive MBA programs, Financial Times #17 Executive MBA programs, Business Week
International Business
geo.worldbank.org A mashup of Google Maps with World Bank data that gives the reader a visual entry point to browse our projects, news, statistics and public information center by country. Business Planet It maps online databases of the World Bank Group that support private sector-led growth and
Odds and Ends
[William Candlewood] used to write rejection letters to authors. He was also the whipping boy. If something fouled up at New Directions it was always blamed on Candlewood. The apology letters said he would be fired immediately.We suspect a lot of companies end up doing something similar, especially those
presentation
In the category of "skills"-are-overrated-how-about-preparation-and-passion: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsm-Mzd9_lM]
Comic relief
It came with my Pea Sea. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks I can knot sea. Eye ran this poem threw it, Your shore real glad two no. Its vary polished in it’s weigh. My chequer tolled me sew. (OUPblog)
management
The winner of several international prizes, The Corporation is a documentary film that is a good discussion tool for business students/professors and -one would hope- professionals. It is based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan. Part 1 (with a promotional
International Business
Friedman notwithstanding: "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much emphasis on international standardization and scalar expansion," Ghemawat argues. While identifying similarities from one place to the next is essential, effective cross-border strategies will take careful stock of differences as well. (HBS Working
Academics
In the [2007] annual Times Higher-QS World University Rankings, McGill University placed 12th overall—the first time a Canadian university has cracked the top 15 to join Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale and others among the dozen best universities in the world. The school also ranked ahead of such prestigious
Odds and Ends
Taken together, the unfunded national commitments, including the national debt, future obligations on entitlement programs, and other commitments such as pensions, that fiscal exposures are $50.5 trillion or $170,000 for every man, woman, and child. The United States fiscal inconvenient truth should feel especially weighty for those in
Executive Compensation
The havoc on Wall Street following the collapse of the subprime-mortgage market boils down to a simple truth: for years, lots of very smart people took lots of very foolish risks, betting borrowed billions on dubious mortgage derivatives, and eventually the odds caught up with them.But behind that
Portfolio
The Design Trade Sharilyn Horne business Concepts * 1: Karen Boan blogfolio
Persons
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA930U2ruGk] (thanks Rowan)