Hot MBA Jobs – Chief Information Officer
Chief information officers (CIOs) are, along with chief executive officers, chief operations officer and chief financial officers, among the highest ranking executives at a company or organization. First defined in 1981 by William R. Synnott, former senior vice president of the Bank of Boston, and William H. Gruber, former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, CIOs are responsible for a company’s technical direction. Continue reading…
DeGroote School Talks 3 Trends in Sports Management
Recently, the sports management MBA has started to become more and more popular. Not only is it a growing industry, but it is also a unique subset that fascinates many MBAs. The DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University understands this growing fascination and recently moderated a lively panel at Toronto’s Real Sports Bar & Grill to talk about the top three trends in Sports Management. The results were shared on the DeGroote Blog. Continue reading…
Healthcare Management MBA: Philadelphia
Philadelphia is dominated by the healthcare industry. In fact, in 2013, health care accounted for 22 percent of the jobs in the city, or about 146,000 jobs and $6.7 billion in annual salary. It makes healthcare far and away the city’s largest employment sector. And it makes sense considering Philadelphia’s largest employers include the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Temple University Hospital, Independence Blue Cross and Pennsylvania Health, just to name a few. Continue reading…
Summer Reading: 10 Essential Books about Leadership
Some say leaders are born not made. But any successful entrepreneur will tell you that a deep knowledge of how to engage and inspire their team trumps innate charisma more often than not.
Memorial Prize Awarded to London Business School Professor
Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, was awarded the Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize for an article called “Combining Purpose with Profits,” according to a press release from the school. The award is presented by MIT Sloan Management Review and recognizes their most outstanding article dealing with the subjects of planned change and organizational development. The prize was given to Birkinshaw along with his two co-authors, Nicolai J. Foss, Professor of Strategy and Organisation at Copenhagen Business School and Siegwart Lindenberg, Professor of Cognitive Sociology at University of Groningen.
The winning article addressed an important and timeless question for managers: how can the tension between purpose and profits be best managed? The authors looked at the types of structures that companies can put in place that help provide purpose and direction for their employees, while also motivating individuals and drawing a group of people together in mutual pursuit. The judges praised the article for being in line with the beliefs of the late Richard Beckhard, organizational theorist and former MIT adjunct professor, for whom the award is named. The panel for the ward consisted of professors from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Birkinshaw was glad that his work was recognized in an official capacity. “It’s really pleasing to win this prize. Our intention in writing this article was to shift the debate towards how businesses can deliver on their purpose without sacrificing profit, and it’s great that the judges liked this perspective,” he said in a press release from the school.
SFSU College of Business to Host Women’s Emerging Leadership Forum
San Francisco State University College of Business will be hosting the Second Annual Women’s Emerging Leadership Forum, according to information found on the school’s website. The forum is designed for women who are interested in improving their leadership skills, exploring and learning about business negotiations, and expanding their network. It will be held on October 8 and 9 at SFSU’s downtown campus. The Women’s Emerging Leadership Forum is a College of Business Enterprises program offered in partnership with the College of Extended Learning at SFSU. Continue reading…
