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Please continue to check the Management Newsletter for news and information about the 2011 Management Conference this sumer. We will announce the dates and location soon.
Monthly Archive for July, 2010
To those of you that joined us at the 2010 Management Conference in Montreal, or if you’ve participated in a previous conference, please share your photos of the conference with your friends and colleagues that you met while at the conference. Pictures of the conference sessions, dinner, tours and ‘down time’ are all welcome!
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From The Economist
Zoff, a maker of cheap, chic glasses in Tokyo’s trendy Harajuku district, is hardly a place you would expect to find dedicated followers of management theory. But one day its boss, 38-year-old Takeshi Ueno, came into a staff meeting waving a book about baseball with the picture of a gamine schoolgirl on the cover. It had the clunky title: “What if the Female Manager of a High-School Baseball Team read Drucker’s ‘Management’”. Mr Ueno told his staff to read it. Satoko Osanai, his sales manager, did.
Like many young businesswomen across Japan this year, Ms Osanai became an instant fan—not of baseball, but of the late management guru, Peter Drucker. After reading the book, she says, she started treating colleagues and customers differently. As news of the novel travelled from office to café to home, its sales topped 1m. According to the publisher, the cutesy manga cover was aimed more at attracting salarymen than women. Yet almost half of the buyers have been female. What’s more, sales for Drucker’s original works, such as “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, published in 1973, have soared. Some 300,000 copies of the book have sold in the past six months, compared with 100,000 copies in the previous 26 years.
From The Economist
The internationalisation of business education in recent years has given prospective students a wider choice of where to take an MBA than ever before. As a consequence it seems that business schools now spend almost as much time promoting their cultural, social and sporting advantages as they do the quality of their teaching or position in the rankings. So are students really free to select a location based on such self-indulgences as good weather, good food and handy ski slopes? Or can place have a deeper significance for the potential entrepreneur or corporate leader?
When INSEAD had just the one campus, in Fontainebleau, its answer to that question would have been a clear no. Back in those days its location in France was deemed to be an irrelevance to what was marketed as a truly international school. But its decision in 2000 to open a second campus in Singapore, specifically designed to target Asia and the Pacific Rim proves that even INSEAD called into question such lofty ideas.