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Laura Cooke

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Spreading the Educational Wealth

The global economy demands that lifelong learning spread beyond the industrialized world.READ»

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The Promise of Fast Education

B. Joseph White Dean of the University of Michigan Business School The education provided by the world's top business schools is truly the tip of the global-educational iceberg. How can the riches available at the top be distributed ...READ»

MBA Front Lines

Professors, faculty members, and second-year students at ten of America's most recognized business schools contribute survival advice and lessons.READ»

Positive Paper Chase

The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College has announced the winner of its 2003 Best MBA Paper contest. Jessica Brinkman from the University of Michigan Business School was recognized for her paper "Does Corporate ...READ»

Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the Way

And you think you know how to work a crowd? Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make group deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans -- before they attend their first class!READ»

Bob Knowling's Change Manual

Bob Knowling is a change agent's change agent, a man who's learned to align all the elements of his character so that, no matter what the setting, he leads change.READ»

Gospels of Failure

The reports on three high-profile disasters offer rich lessons in why organizations fail -- and how not to.READ»

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Courage... But Were Afraid to Ask.

We asked some of the world's foremost leadership thinkers 15 questions to get to the core of courage.READ»

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Every Leader Tells a Story

Forget bullet points and slide shows. The best leaders use stories to answer three simple questions: Who am I? Who are we? Where are we going?. . . So what's your story?READ»

What's New, What's Not

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'But Wait, You Promised ...'

The new economy was built on a promise: The customer would finally be in charge. Why do so many customers feel betrayed?READ»

Grassroots Leadership - Ford Motor Co.

"We want people at all levels who will take risks and who can make decisions."READ»

Can C.K. Prahalad Pass the Test?

One of the business world's most influential professors and consultants has invested millions of dollars of his own money to put himself to the test. Can he build a company around the principles that he has been teaching other high-powered leaders? And can he possibly change the world in the process?READ»

The Promise of Fast Education

Roger Martin Roger Martin is the dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He was appointed to a seven-year term beginning on September 1, 1998. A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Martin was ...READ»

The Perfect Vision of Dr. V.

At the Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, 82-year-old Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy has solved the mystery of leadership: He brings eyesight to the blind and light to the soul.READ»

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Grassroots Leadership - Royal Dutch/Shell

Steve Miller of Royal Dutch/Shell offers a powerful model of what leadership means -- a recognition that commitment and creativity come from all parts and all levels of an organization.READ»

Mint Condition

Take a lesson in change from people who make change for a living. Philip Diehl and his colleagues at the U.S. Mint have transformed a clumsy bureaucracy into a fast-moving enterprise with great customer service and a cutting-edge presence on the Web.READ»

Attention, Class!!! 16 Ways to Be a Smarter Teacher

In an economy filled with surprise and uncertainty, being an effective leader means being a good teacher. But how do you lead and teach at the same time? Who are your most important students? And what about recess?READ»

What They don't Teach You about in B-school

Should you go to business school? If so, how do you get in? And if you go, what will you take away? If you want to pass the B-school test, take a lesson from some B-school students.READ»