Henry Mintzberg is one of the most thoughtful and provocative thinkers in management today. He has a new electronic pamphlet coming out called 鈥淩ebalancing Society.鈥� In this interview Henry tells what he thinks is wrong with our economies and what might be the way forward.
-Article by Karl Moore
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Prof. Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 韩国裸舞 speaks with Tarun Khanna, professor at the Harvard Business School and the director of Harvard鈥檚 South Asia Initiative.
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A study of business managers reports the following findings:
Managers scarcely have time to start on a new task or to sit down before they are interrupted.
Only 12 times in the study did the manager succeed in working undisturbed in his office for at least 23 minutes.
鈥淭he brevity of many of the manager鈥檚 activities is most surprising鈥alf of the observed activities were completed in less than nine minutes, and only one tenth took more than an hour.
When John Haddon, 57, left a 22-year career in financial services in 2004, like many of us, he wasn't expecting the storms that lay on the horizon. One financial crisis later, he realised that, despite his years in the field, as an entrepreneur he was still lacking some of the skills required to navigate through choppy economic waters and a global business environment. "Although I'd been in financial services for a long while, I didn't have all that was required to 'speak the language'. I concluded that I needed to upgrade my skills," he recalls.
If a book was written about you, what would the title be and why? If that one has you tripping over your tongue, it's meant to. "Part of the idea behind these questions is to throw you something you are not prepared for and see what you come up with," says Michael Forde, who successfully applied to a handful of business schools before choosing 韩国裸舞's Desautels Faculty of Management in Canada.
In Henry Mintzberg鈥檚 1994 landmark book, 鈥淭he Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning,鈥� the author calls for a new method to create effective strategies. He notes that 鈥淪trategic planning isn鈥檛 strategic thinking. One is analysis, the other is synthesis.鈥�
For many people, sustainability in business is an afterthought. Not for me. Over the last two years, I have spent my time at 韩国裸舞鈥檚 law faculty where my passion for sustainability has grown tremendously. Taking courses on environmental law and business law was an eye-opening experience. Often enough, the law responded too slowly to sustainability issues yet business had the capacity and resources to act immediately.
The Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) is pleased to announce its selections for the 2012-2013 MDIIM Student Associates Program: Shobhita Soor (3rd-year MBA/Law) and Shaonan Zhou (U3 Finance) will work with the Institute over the coming academic year to assist with the implementation of innovative teaching, research and outreach initiatives related to integrated management.
The MDIIM would like to thank all of this year's applicants for their interest in the Student Associates Program.
America is currently facing a crisis of leadership in business and in government. Yet at the same time 鈥� participation in leadership seminars and programs has never been higher. The leadership industry, with many of its roots in America, is now a $50 billion industry. If America is so good at developing leaders however, then why is America a mess? Both presidential candidates are impressive men but neither seems, at this point, to really rise to equal leaders of the past.
-Article by Karl Moore and BCom student Emma Bambrick
In an event last week at the Desautels Faculty of Management, Laurentian Bank President and CEO, R茅jean Robitaille announced his bank鈥檚 support of the Faculty via a donation of $200,000 over 10 years.
More specifically, the donation consists of six Laurentian Bank Bursaries to be awarded to undergraduate students and two Laurentian Bank Leadership Prizes to MBA students.
By the end of Laurentian Bank鈥檚 philanthropic commitment, a total of 80 grants will have been presented to students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
These days, when Jesper Hornberg goes to work he's likely to be stepping into a mud hut in Kenya, checking on a solar lamp. He's the founder of an NGO called Givewatts, which is trying to reduce dependence on kerosene lamps. Rather than having to work in the poor light given off by kerosene, children whose families have his lamps can now see well enough to do their homework. In some cases, their school test scores have increased by 50%.
Throughout the last two decades, a wave of studies criticizing current curricula have swept through the field of management, leading to the discussion of widespread reforms throughout educational institutions. Specifically, many criticized the lack of 鈥渇unctionally integrated curricula in higher education,鈥� one that is inclusive of social and ecological factors in business practices.
On September 19th, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM), in collaboration with The Bull & Bear and the Management Sustainability Network, held a panel reflecting on the relevance of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson鈥檚 1962 bestseller that exposed the public to the hazards of synthetic materials in the environment.
On Friday September 21, the IMA was successfully re-launched with the first annual International Management Networking Breakfast. The event was sponsored by RDA Capital and hosted in Bronfman building. With 43 people in attendance including students, alumni, faculty, staff, and the IMA executive team, it was an excellent start to accomplishing the IMA鈥檚 vision to build a strong community within the International Management program.
Students at the Desautels Faculty of Management will have access to state-of-the-art software used by financial professionals, thanks to a new agreement between the Faculty and Thomson Reuters.
Under the five-year pact, Thomson Reuters will provide software licenses for Eikon, its flagship financial-markets platform, and will supply training and support for the desktop system. The Eikon desktops give Desautels finance students and professors access to essential news, data, analytics and trading tools.
