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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The changing face of European think-tanks (& Academia) - EurActiv.com Published: 26 February 2009 | Updated: 09 April 2010 The number of think-tanks in Europe has more than quadrupled in recent years, and they have become more active and inventive at disseminating policy solutions to decision-makers. But they are at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lowdown on the Online M.B.A. - U.S News & World Report MBA Admissions, Strictly Business, February 04, 2011. Those interested in pursuing an M.B.A. have a lot of options: full-time or part-time programs, abbreviated courses designed specifically for executives, and joint degrees with other academic disciplines, to name a few. In... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deans discusssing Rankings Santiago Iniguez "Comparing the incomparable" Santiago Iniguez - "Rankings Add Value" Santiago Iniguez "EQUAL's document on Rankings: Some Clarifications" Andy Policano, Dean of The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine-What Price Rankings? EQUAL´s "Rankings - Guide for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Graça Machel supports IE Business School's commitment to African women entrepreneurs Press Release: Nelson Mandela´s wife and former minister of Mozambique Graça Machel to host the finals of IE's Training and Mentoring Program for Women-Led business in her capacity as President of the Foundation for Community Development. SEE THE PARTICIPANTS' PROFILES... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s Making B-School PRs Buzz Article of Business Because, (13/07/2010) Business school PRs share their views on the biz ed trends and professors to watch. PR heads from many of the world’s top business schools gathered in London a couple of weeks back for the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean of the Darden School of Buiness (Virginia) - What 1907 Can Teach Us About 2007 + interview on American Entrepreneur Radio http://bigthink.com/ideas/24910 The panic of 1907 can tell us a lot about the crisis of the sub-prime crisis of 2007-2009. Both were fundamentally psychological phenomena—driven by fear and greed, rather than rational decision-making... + The American Entrepreneur Radio podcast, September 1,... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dearth of MBA jobs greatly exaggerated MBA Employers See Better Economy Ahead (January 21, 2010) Seventy percent of MBA employers polled recently by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) expect 2010 to bring relief from the difficult conditions that defined the business climate in 2009. As... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entrepreneur series (3) - Mårten Mickos, Finn and ex-CEO of MySQL AB. www.SantiagoIniguez.com, Dean of IE Business School This is the third in a series of profiles on leading technology entrepreneurs who have transformed their environments; almost all of them are founders of their own companies (or who were the leading figure).... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Financial Times (out today) Executive MBA Rankings: Open, Custom and Combined Click here for the Financial Times Executive Education 2009 of today Click here for the Excecutive MBA Open Interactive rankings 2009 Harvard Business School University of Virginia: Darden IMD IE Business School Iese Business School London Business School Center for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AACSB latest edition of BizEd A Return to Reality Jeffrey Garten—International and Annual Meeting keynote speaker—discusses the lessons of Lehman Brothers, the importance of public policy, and the need for a three-year MBA. Well worth downloading PDF (1MB) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EFMD: the lifetime achievements of the late Peter Drucker, the ‘father of modern management’, the centenary of whose birth occurs this year Download A time to rediscover Peter Drucker by Richard Straub On November 19, 2009 it will be 100 years since Peter F Drucker was born in Vienna – then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Drucker passed away three years ago,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website View From MIT (dean): A Depression Still Avoidable Click here for the article or the US News and Report, March 30, 2009. I spoke recently with David Schmittlein, dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management. Here are some of his thoughts about the recession's impact on corporate America,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The (Free) Laid-Off Professional's Guide to MBA Admissions Veritas Prep, a GMAT prep and MBA admissions consulting company, recently released a guide to help business school applicants get past career setbacks. Known as The Laid-Off Professional's Guide to MBA Admissions (PDF 854) , the online publication provides proven... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AACSB's BizEd - KPMG's Tim Flynn talks about Ethics. Click here for the AACSB website. This Issue of BizEd ... Ethical Outlook KPMG's Tim Flynn puts ethics at the heart of the company's culture. » Read more ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warren Buffett tells CNBC the U.S. economy has "fallen off a cliff". 5 hours ago Warren Buffett tells CNBC's Becky Quick the U.S. economy has "fallen off a cliff."At the start of a three-hour appearance on Squawk Box, Buffett said economic developments have been very "close to the worst case" that he had imagined, although... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sir Ronald Cohen, "The Father of private equity in Europe"(CNBC said), on Entrepreneurship "The Second Bounce of the ball" : "One of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years. It will reward any reader, from start-up to City Banker" Financial Times.The Second Bounce of the Ball is the distillation of Cohen's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website President Obama's address to Congress February 24: Education Full text of President Obama's address, February 24, 2009 ....The third challenge we must address is the urgent need to expand the promise of education in America. In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT podcast - Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business, on levarage in a downturn Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, talks about how companies need to adjust their attitude towards leverage Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Krugman (on video conf. from Princeton Uni) on C-Span, Stimulus and Banking, Feb 13, 2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: "Sachs & Stiglitz address a seminal stimulus issue" (2 min 19 sec) 22nd Feb Jeffrey D. Sachs (DeansTalk post 17th Feb) & Joeseph Stiglitz (DeansTalk post 11th Feb and 19th Feb) address a seminal stimulus issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean, Darden School of Business, Robert Bruner, A Time to Hang in there. Taken in its entirety as posted by Robert Bruner on his own blog 02/10/2009 12:09 AM“I want to quit the MBA Program. The job situation is miserable. The economy is headed down the drain. I enrolled here with expectations that... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2009 Horizon Report - emerging technologies in Education 2009 Horizon Report website (via SlashMobs January 24th, 2009 and The Higher Chronicle January 22th, 2009) The annual Horizon Report (367KB) describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morgan Stanley presenation at Web2.0 Summit Nov08 - Technology / Internet Trends Technology / Internet TrendsView more presentations or upload your own. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Focus (EFMD) UK peer report: What does it take to be a Business School Dean? Latest issue of Global Focus magazine (EFMD) What does it take to be a business school dean? Click here to download the article from EFMD's Global Focus magazine.(226KB) Nearly a quarter of British business schools have changed or are changing... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New EUA report: �Financially Sustainable Universities: Towards Full Costing In European Universities� Click here for the press release on the EUA website, 13 November 2008.New EUA report calls on universities and governments to do more to implement full costing Faced with rising costs, stagnating public investment, and the current global economic crisis,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discussing Social Responsibility in Shanghai - Santiago Iniguez www.SantiagoIniguez.com, Dean of IE Business School Click here to download the Conference presentation (4.9 MB) Every other year, the vibrant city of Shanghai becomes the venue of several major management education conferences arranged sequentially in one week. These conferences -organised,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FT listing of LLM (Law) degrees around the world Download this report (136KB) published yesterday. Financial Times report on Global Legal Education Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Save MobuzzTV, please. Save Mobuzz from Anil de Mello on Vimeo. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Tower and The Cloud" - Higher Education in the Age of computintg New Book by Educause Explores Impact of 'Cloud Computing' on CollegesDownload book here for free (or each chapter can be downloaded individually.) Whole book (2.38MB) Click here for the article of The Chronicle of Higher Education A new book by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Humorous (or not so) explanation of the crisis The Last Laugh - George Parr - Subprime - Spanish subtitulos Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Economist Intelligence Unit 2008 MBA rankings - released two days ago. Click here for Economist Intelligence Unit 2008 MBA rankings, Friday 26, September 2008. IMD - International Institute for Management Development 1 IESE Business School - University of Navarra 2 Chicago, University of - Graduate School of Business 3 Stanford Graduate... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Release of 2008 (Country) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Transparency International (TI) 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Tuesday, September 23, 2008. Wikipedia entry "Corruptions Perceptions Index" Since 1995, Transparency International has published an annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ordering the countries of the world according to "the degree to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deans convene in China to discuss the future of management education Click here for the original Press Release from the Tuck website. September 12, 2008 CONTACT: Kim Keating, 603-646-2733 Download Shanghai Roundtable Synopsis.pdf, 588 KB HANOVER, N.H.�Deans from top international business schools recently gathered to discuss the current and future state... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US Presidential Candidates Have Little Opportunity to Talk About Education Click here for article of US News and Report, May 8, 2008. ...Losing step. Frustration over how education has been crowded out of the presidential debate is barely contained among the nation's leading education experts... "Education is a big issue,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 80+ Open Courseware Collections to Help You Be a Better Leader - Job profiles The Manager's Handbook: 80+ Open Courseware Collections to Help You Be a Better Leader -by Job Profiles Published on Tuesday June 3rd , 2008 By Jessica Merritt Although becoming a leader may seem simple, the fact is that there's a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Declining business travel - Technology. 1 The Waning Days of the Road Warrior, Business Week, May 22, 2008. Whenever there's an economic downturn, corporations slash their travel budgets. The International Air Transport Assn. is already reporting that business and first-class travel have experienced the biggest... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ACCSB's Biz Ed Magazine - Coca-Cola's E. Neville Isdell ACCSB's website For Coca-Cola's E. Neville Isdell, corporate social responsibility isn't just about good deeds�it's about good business.� Download the PDF (656 MB) If you were to come into a business classroom for a day, what would you want to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today's Financial Times Rankings 2008 - Executive Education Today's Financial Times Rankings 2008 - Executive Education Open Rankings 1. Harvard Business School (U.S.A.) 2. University of Virginia: Darden (U.S.A.) 3. IMD (Switzerland) and 3. Stanford University GSB (U.S.A.) 5. IE Business School (Spain) 6. Center for Creative Leadership... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Facebook worth your time? Article of CNN Money, April 18, 2008 The hot social network is fine for kids, but skeptical adults need a reason to sign up. One turns out to be getting good stuff in your News Feed. By David Kirkpatrick, senior... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "shifthappens" - Popular presentation on Globalisation - 528,534 views | View | Upload your own Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.S. News&Report - America's Best Graduate Schools 2009 America's Best Graduate Schools Rankings 2009. U.S. News has collected data from more than 12,000 graduate programs to bring you this year's rankings. Start by selecting a discipline for access to our top program rankings.Guide to Business Schools Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AACSB - latest edition of BizEd. AACSB website Brand Evangelist Ogilvy & Mather's Shelly Lazarus believes every point of contact with the customer is an opportunity to promote the brand. Download PDF (216 KB) How can schools prepare their students to work in such a fast-paced... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buffet's annual "To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc." Download 2007Letter.pdf (463 KB, 22 pages) Our gain in net worth during 2007 was $12.3 billion, which increased the per-share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 11%. Over the last 43 years (that is,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ISB in elite B-schools league - Financial Times The Indian School of Business in Hyderabad has been ranked among the top 20 business institutes of the world. According to UK's Financial Times newspaper, the ISB, which was founded in 1999 by a group of Fortune 500 entrepreneurs .... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video - BschoolTalk - Extra-Curricular Activities - Admissions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Popular YouTube - Warren Buffett MBA Talk Warren Buffett MBA Talk - Part 1 Click here for parts 2 to 10. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Educase-2008 Horizon Report-6 emerging technologies Educase webpage The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly produced Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Focus - Issue 4 - EFMD EFMD website 01 In focus & contents ... Read more. 04 Talking shop Excellence in Practice Award 2008 New Chair for EQUAL EURAM 2008 Conference EFMD Advisory Services 2008 Read more. 08 Life at the top Dipak Jain, Dean of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuck of Dartmouth's Paul Argenti on CEO Bloggers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bologna process-Call for proposals: Tempus IV programme From Cordis website, 5 February, 2008. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture has issued a call for proposals for its Tempus IV programme, on the reform of higher education through international university cooperation. Tempus promotes multilateral cooperation among... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Danos video - "Public vs Private" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reputation and the War for Talent Download the full Reputation & The War For Talent report below. 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Keeping your people excited about a change initiative; BusinessWeek Columnists Jack & Suzy Welch say that transforming a company requires total commitment and serious stamina. Listen to this episode Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Steve Jobs speaking at Stanford graduation ceremony '07 "You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Generation Y's Bad Rap - Jack Welch podcast The truth behind the perception BusinessWeek Columnists Jack & Suzy Welch say that Gen Y's reputation for being greedy and swaggering is unfair. Instead, they believe the members of Gen Y are driven, thoughtful, and candid. Listen to this episode... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio: Deans� Roundtable, London July 10th, 3rd & 4th Extracts third extract In the third extract the deans answered questions from journalists. Participating are: Dipak Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Frank Brown, dean of Insead Edward Snyder, dean of the Chicago Graduate School of Business... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio: Deans� Roundtable, London July 10th, Second Extract Financial Times, Second Extract (plus First), Read transcript here. Listen to the audio here (to save, right-click and select �Save Target As...�) In the second extract, the discussion turned to the advantages and disadvantages of working in both a stand-alone... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio: Deans� Roundtable, London July 10th Financial Times, First extract, July 13 2007 (see July 10th post on this blog) Listen to the audio here (to save, right-click and select �Save Target As...�) A rountable discussion between the deans of 11 top business schools was hosted... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Employers target more jobs at people with graduate business degrees First GMAC podcast, Dave Wilson, GMAC president and CEO,launches a podcast series and talks about Applications Trends Survey results and their implications. Previous mentions of GMAC in BizDeansTalk.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Educating the Chinese Executive" - Podcast of Dean Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business - CKGSB Here at DeansTalk, we were made aware by the CKGSB Communications of the latest podcast interview of CKGSB Dean Dr. Bing Xiang with EnterpriseLeadership. Play Podcast (Right click to download) When it comes to running businesses in China, Dr. Bing... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast - CIO Roundtable Update Following up on the information we posted about last week's roundtable in Prague on doing business in emerging markets, we spoke with Tuck professor Eric Johnson about the meeting, the main lessons learned, and his thoughts on how activities like this can inform future research and shape business school curriculum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The war for talent The Economist: A 15-page study, The war for talent, was published last October 5th. The battle for brainpower is the first part of the study (available without subscription). A discussion with Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Bureau Chief of The Economist There... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast of dean of HKUST Hong Kong Dean K C Chan of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology speaks about business education. 4 MB, 4.20 mins Tags(clickable): Education, MBA, Business School, Podcast, China, Hong Kong, HKST... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast of dean of Fudan University School of Management, Shanghai Fudan University School of Management, 5.5 MB / 5.5 mins Tags(clickable): Education, MBA, Business School, Podcast, China, Shanghai, Fudong... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast of dean of Fudan University School of Management, Shanghai Dean Lu Xionqwen of Fudan University School of Management, speaks about business education in China. 8.8 MB / 9.73 mins Tags(clickable): Education, MBA, Business School, Podcast, China, Shanghai, Fudan... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor mixing business with education On the occasion of a conference, Martin Varsavsky, a renowned entrepreneur and associate-professor of entrepreneurship at IE Business School, responds to questions posed by Santiago I�iguez (dean of IE Business School). He speaks of how Fon, his latest company,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website