leadership

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Five tips for resolving conflict within your management team

June 24, 2011 7:17am PDT

Effective leaders can mediate conflict and reach consensus among members of an executive group. It takes perspective, honesty, and a focus on the issues that matter.

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Carolyn Woo Named CEO/President Of Catholic Relief Services

June 24, 2011 12:00am PDT

Carolyn Y. Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean of the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, will leave the University to serve as president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS),...

Provided by: University of Notre Dame

Webcasts

Don Reed: The Road From Here To VERGE

June 22, 2011 12:00am PDT

In this webcast, the presenter explains how the convergence of technologies demands that companies adopt new strategies and programs to capitalize on the new opportunities for innovation, from the...

Provided by: GreenBiz Group

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App Scan SaaS Thought Leadership Whitepaper

June 21, 2011 12:00am PDT

More and more companies are relying on Web-based applications to provide online services to their employees, to support e-commerce sales and to leverage portals. All of these applications are...

Provided by: IBM

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Are You Leveraging Your Vendors For Innovation?

June 21, 2011 12:00am PDT

Your company may be giving IT vendors more help with their innovation than your own innovation. Don't just give away great ideas. Work with your vendors to not only implement innovation in their...

Provided by: CastlePointe

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Tech explodes in Pixar's 'Cars 2' (images)

June 20, 2011 4:10am PDT

Like many of its predecessors, the new movie is full of technical innovations. Some required a tripling of Pixar's render farm.

Blog Post

10 management myths that should be debunked

June 16, 2011 8:02am PDT

A lot of common ideas about management are foolish, misguided, and just plain wrong. Steve Tobak examines some misconceptions that could be holding you back.

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Why you should pay attention to team's demographics

June 15, 2011 7:32am PDT

Great leaders know that treating each team member as an individual is worth the work. In this blog, executive leadership coach John M McKee shares ideas that can make a big difference.

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Degree Of Policy Precommitment In The UK: An Empirical Investigation Of Monetary And Fiscal Policy Interactions

June 15, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper investigates the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy in the UK in the period of the Bank of England independence and before the start of the quantitative easing. Using a simple DSGE...

Provided by: University of Exeter

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The When And Where Of Research In Agricultural Innovation Trajectories: Evidence And Implications From Rius South Asia Projects

June 14, 2011 12:00am PDT

The question of how agricultural research can best be used for developmental purposes is a topic of some debate in developmental circles. The idea that this is simply a question of better transfer...

Provided by: United Nations University

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Don't hire and then kill creativity in the workplace

June 10, 2011 6:00am PDT

According to Todd Fluhr, some companies intentionally stifle internal creativity, but they don't realize it. Find out what changes he made to a department to help promote and nurture creativity,...

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Surreal: Apple now worth more than Microsoft + Intel

June 4, 2011 5:39am PDT

With Apple about to announce its next wave of product updates at WWDC 2011, the company finished the week with a market value than now exceeds Microsoft and Intel combined.

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Is India's outsourcing leadership up to the task?

June 3, 2011 3:20am PDT

The tribulations that are putting top Indian executives to the test...

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The Emergence Of Leadership In Social Networks

June 3, 2011 12:00am PDT

The authors study a networked version of the minority game in which agents can choose to follow the choices made by a neighbouring agent in a social network. They show that for a wide variety of...

Provided by: Imperial College London

Webcasts

African Elections And Democracy

June 3, 2011 12:00am PDT

Nations across Africa are holding elections, a good sign for emerging democracies on the continent. However, the presenter says the quality of governance in African nations varies widely. Some...

Provided by: Brookings Institution

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Adaptive Leadership

June 2, 2011 12:00am PDT

The agile movement has made enormous strides in the last decade, greatly improving software delivery and creating more satisfactory work environments in many organizations. The next horizon is...

Provided by: ThoughtWorks

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Innovation And Diffusion Of Clean/Green Technology: Can Patent Commons Help?

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "Inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third...

Provided by: United Nations University

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Voluntary Agreements And Community Development As CSR In Innovation Strategies

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The present paper examines how an innovating firm decides between two forms of Voluntary Agreements (VA) in a context, where a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches...

Provided by: United Nations University

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Institutional Comparative Statics

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Why was the Black Death followed by the decline of serfdom in Western Europe but its' intensification in Eastern Europe? What explains why involvement in Atlantic trade in the Early Modern period...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Global Innovation Networks: What Are They And Where Can We Find Them? (Conceptual And Empirical Issues)

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The rapid move of China and India from low-cost producers to innovators has triggered an increasing interest in the globalization of innovation activities and more specifically, on the surge of...

Provided by: Lund University