Monthly Archive for May, 2010

Nazhat Jafri to speak at Management Conference in Montreal

Published on May 25, 2010 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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Nuzhat Jafri became the first executive director of the Office of the Fairness Commissioner in September 2007.

She has wide leadership experience in both public and private sectors. She directed diversity initiatives at Scotiabank and previously at the Bank of Montreal, where she delivered awardwinning leading-edge programs. In the Ontario government, Ms. Jafri developed a cultural policy framework at the Ministry of Culture. She oversaw the passage of amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act and the development and implementation of key regulations. Earlier, she was a director at the former Employment Equity Commission. Most recently, Ms. Jafri was the manager of Global Experience Ontario, the information and referral centre for internationally trained persons at the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration.

The Office of the Fairness Commissioner is an independent agency of the government of Ontario. Its goal is to make sure that people are treated fairly when they apply to become licensed professionals in one of Ontario’s regulated professions, no matter where they were trained. This goal is widely supported in Ontario, and reflects the principles and core values of its people. www.fairnesscommissioner.ca

Outside Directors and Children First: Do Outside Directors Leave Just as Companies Need Them Most?

Published on May 5, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From The Economist201018wbp503

Ruth Simmons  joined Goldman Sachs’s board as an outside director in January 2000; a year later she became president of Brown University in Rhode Island. For the rest of the decade she apparently juggled both roles (as well as several other directorships) without attracting much criticism. But by the end of 2009 Ms Simmons was under fire from students and alumni for having sat on Goldman’s compensation committee; how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked? By February Ms Simmons had left the board. The position was just taking up too much time, she said.

Ms Simmons’s decision to leave makes perfect sense, according to research conducted by Rüdiger Fahlenbrach at the École Polytechnique Féderale in Lausanne, Angie Low of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and René Stulz of The Ohio State University. The three are co-authors of a new working paper suggesting that when trouble looms for a firm, outside directors have more incentives to quit than to stay.

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Redesigned Newsletter: Launched Today

Published on May 4, 2010 in Newsletter. 0 Comments

Today the Management Newsletter will be re-launched – marking the start of a new approach to connecting with and reaching out to our Management Community. The newsletter will be sent out on a monthly basis and will contain important community news, conference updates, and publication information.

It is the hope of Common Ground Publishing that this newsletter will provide you with a more positive experience connecting with the Management Community.

If you are not currently a subscriber but would like to receive future newsletter emails, please go to theorganisation.com and click on “Sign Up: Our Newsletter” in the upper right-hand corner.

If you have inquiries, concerns, or general comments, please feel free to contact the newsletter team at support@ theorganisation.com.

Tenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations

Published on May 3, 2010 in Conference and Newsletter. 0 Comments

The 2010 Management Conference will be held at HEC Montreal in Montreal Canada from 26-28 July.

Plenary Speakers

  • Nuzhat Jafri, Executive Director, Office of the Fairness Commissioner
  • Mildred Schwartz, Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
  • Emma Stenstrom, Professor, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Frank Habermann, Managing Director, Becota, The Berlin Consulting & Management Association, Berlin, Germany
  • Alain Senteni, Dean, School of e-Education,  Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Call for Papers
If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://theorganisation.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers/#ppt. To submit a proposal, see: http://theorganisation.com/conference-2010/call-for-papers/. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.

Registration
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, or to register for the 2010 Management Conference, see: http://theorganisation.com/conference-2010/register/.

Themes
http://theorganisation.com/ideas/themes/

Conference Dinner & Tours
http://theorganisation.com/conference-2010/activities-and-extras/

Accommodation
http://theorganisation.com/conference-2010/accommodation/

The Guru of the Bottom of the Pyramid

Published on May 2, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From The Economist201017wbd000

Oimbatore Krisnarao Prahalad, universally known as C.K., was the most creative management thinker of his generation. He revolutionised thinking on two big subjects, business strategy and economic development, and made a significant contribution to a third, innovation. His admirers were legion, including bosses of some of the world’s biggest companies, heads of NGOs and founders of scrappy start-ups.

Mr Prahalad burst onto the management scene with two path-breaking articles in the Harvard Business Review, “Strategic Intent” (1989) and “The Core Competence of the Corporation” (1990), and a bestselling book, “Competing for the Future” (1996), all co-written with his former pupil, Gary Hamel. “Core competence” remains one of the most frequently reprinted articles ever published by Harvard Business Review.

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