The Commons

Conversations for Nonprofits in Tough Times

‘On Our Radar’ Archive

More on the B-school Ethical Evolution…

2010 Apr 15
Comments (0)
Permalink

Another day, another important article – this one in U.S. News and World Report – on how business schools are “re-evaluating the importance of business ethics and different methods of teaching ethics.”
This topic has had a lot of coverage for several years, starting even before Enron and other high-profile ethical messes. The global financial meltdown [...]

Continue reading »

Bubbles are taking off over India

2010 Apr 2
Comments (0)
Permalink

Despite being a country where Internet connections are often unreliable, India can usually be seen as an early adopter of new web and social media applications.  India’s citizens have so wholly embraced Facebook that they love it almost as much as they love film.  Facebook recently announced that it will open its first Asian office [...]

Continue reading »

Reputation is On the Line When Choosing New Deans

2010 Mar 26
Comments (0)
Permalink

Upon reading the first article in a three-part Business Week series examining high-profile searches for new business school deans, it struck me that it is hard to overstate the importance of getting this process right. As with a corporate CEO position, the individual leading each of these institutions — or at any top business school [...]

Continue reading »

YouTube Video vs. Written Essay: The Ultimate College Decision

2010 Mar 1
Comments (1)
Permalink

What do you get when you combine the increasingly competitive college admissions process with the age of social media? YouTube videos as a college application supplement, of course. At least that is what Tufts University has started to accept this year. In addition to poring through the traditional essays, recommendations and transcripts, this year Tufts [...]

Continue reading »

Me and Scott Jaschik

2010 Feb 24
Comments (0)
Permalink

At the CASE District III conference yesterday, I was asked to sit in for Scott Jaschik – editor of Inside Higher Ed – when his flight arrangements conflicted with the timing of the session.  Co-presenter Rae Goldsmith from CASE and I managed to deflect the massive disappointment in the room at Scott’s absence and lead [...]

Continue reading »

AdAge Announces Tweet Tracking

2010 Feb 15
Comments (0)
Permalink

Leading online news source for the marketing and media fields, Advertising Age, launched  the first of what is to be weekly installments of a Twitter measuring chart, entitled “Top 10 Most Tweeted Brands.” A collaboration with What the Trend, a social media trend-analytics service, this chart attempts to list the week’s ten most popular brands [...]

Continue reading »

The “LipDub” Phenomenon: Higher Ed Marketing Meets MTV

2010 Jan 26
Comments (2)
Permalink

Amid Facebook fan pages and Twitter posts, colleges and universities appear to be embracing a new social media trend to include in their marketing and communications strategies – “LipDub.” Part virtual campus tour and part music video, “LipDub” is a style of video that aims to showcase a college’s campus and student life in a [...]

Continue reading »

Academic Globalization: Friend or Foe?

2010 Jan 21
Comments (0)
Permalink

This Ben Wildavsky article for The New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, an excerpt from his book The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Reshaping the World, explores both sides of the academic globalization debate and provides insight into whether increased global competition for the United States academic world is something to be feared [...]

Continue reading »

B-Schools Need to Strike a Balance

2009 Oct 20
Comments (2)
Permalink

I work with and study a lot of business schools and no doubt this article on M.B.A.’s and social change identifies a real trend toward students wanting to explore issues of sustainability, corporate social responsibility, “green” enterprises and other social entrepreneurship concepts. These are, not surprisingly, subjects with tremendous natural appeal in today’s environment.
One can [...]

Continue reading »

Quantity vs. Quality in India’s B-Schools?

2009 Oct 7
Comments (0)
Permalink

Upon reading Premchand Palety’s article on India’s B-schools in the Wall Street Journal, I could not help but agree that growth of the management education industry in India has no doubt outpaced the growth in quality. Clearly, more regulation of the sector is in order.
However, let’s be sure to give great credit to the many [...]

Continue reading »

« Previous Posts