The biggest automaker in the world admits it screwed up. Rigging emissions tests on its diesel cars will cost Volkswagen billions. But what's happened to car owners' trust?
Our guest is Henry Mintzberg, a Cleghorn professor of management studies at 91黑料网 and author of听Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond, Left, Right, and Center.听He argues that what happened at Volkswagen was not a scandal, but a part of a pattern or syndrome.
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Published on: 29 Sep 2015
You鈥檙e late getting out the door and your six-year-old isn鈥檛 co-operating. You know it isn鈥檛 the best parental decision you鈥檝e ever made but you offer him a treat if he agrees to obediently put on his shoes and get into the car. What鈥檚 the harm in that?
A study co-authored by Laurette Dub茅 of 91黑料网鈥檚 Desautel Faculty of Management suggests there could be long-term consequences to these types of actions, especially if they become a regular routine.
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Published on: 29 Sep 2015
Written by Henry Mintzberg
鈥榃hat was Volkswagen thinking?鈥� This question makes a big assumption: that the Volkswagen people were thinking about anything beyond their greed. About decency, about our environment, about their progeny.
Okay, so you won鈥檛 be buying a Volkswagen. A Chevrolet? Watch out for the ignition. Or how about a Toyota? Just duck as the airbag comes your way. Do you, by any chance, see a pattern? Have webeen thinking?
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Published on: 28 Sep 2015
It鈥檚 hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate.
... Gabriel Mott, the chief operating officer of Aspire Food Group, yells above the noise and points inside one of the boxes. 鈥淵ou see the one with the wings?鈥� he asks. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 a female. They get their wings at their final stage.鈥�
Published on: 28 Sep 2015
It鈥檚 hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate. The brush of the insects鈥� legs against the various surfaces sounds like hail on a tin roof. Their feed, which sits on top of the cartons on paper plates, looks like a cross between sawdust and sand.
Published on: 25 Sep 2015
Written by听Reuven Brenner
Europe is now facing a prospect similar to what the US has been facing for decades: the march of millions upon its borders. But whereas the US got millions of immigrants fleeing Mexico for a better life, the potential millions moving on Europe come from failing states from around the world: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya 鈥� and through the latter, from Nigeria, Eritrea and other.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
Vouloir changer le monde c鈥檈st bien.
... Plusieurs groupes 脿 travers le monde planchent sur des mesures d鈥檌mpact. Le dernier en liste est compos茅 de cinq dipl么m茅s de 91黑料网:听Melissa Serfaty,听Joanna Klimczak,听Eleonor Tsang, Courtney Warren et听Gabriel Gougaud. Leur projet se nomme dare2impact.听
Published on: 25 Sep 2015
From hunger and malnutrition to striking teachers keeping them off normal learning for many days, a Kenyan child goes through diverse challenges to succeed in education.
... While various state and non-state actors seek to increase distribution of the electricity and promote widespread use of solar, 22-year-old听Salima Visram, a Kenya-born from coastal region, is seeking to change the learners' studying lifestyle.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
Poor old VW, caught in the giant pincers of the U.S. regulatory machine that keeps closing in on car markers and car drivers in the name of the climate and the environment.听
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
Written by听Henry Mintzberg
What were they thinking? That鈥檚 the question on everyone鈥檚 mind as the Volkswagen crisis unfolds. That question makes a big assumption: that the company鈥檚 leaders were thinking about anything beyond their greed. About decency, about our environment, about their progeny.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
This is听Karl Moore听of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网 with Talking Management for The Globe & Mail. Today I am delighted to sit down with Ioannis Ioannou from the London Business School.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
If you lived in the Lower Plateau this summer, you may have had a stranger knock on your door asking if you鈥檇 like to take Zumba classes in her backyard. This stranger would have been听Shazia Shariff, a U4 International Management and Political Science student at 91黑料网 who created Karibuni Zumba, providing five-dollar classes over the summer to neighbours looking to get active while getting to know each other.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
Ashish Kashyap听is the CEO of the e-commerce and travel organization Ibibo Group. While starting as a social networking medium back in 2007, it wasn't long before the company changed its model to venture into travel and e-commerce. Kashyap's experience while working with large organizations gave him the right exposure to turn into the perfect entrepreneur and has today turned the Ibibo group into one of the largest companies in India.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
It鈥檚 been an eventful year for Tom Osovitzki, the 38-year-old CEO of Corporate Travel Management Solutions.
... 鈥淎fter a few years, employees came to us saying there weren鈥檛 any opportunities for growth,鈥� recalls听Melissa Sonberg, who was part of those discussions and now serves as executive-in-residence at Desautels faculty of management. 鈥淭his is a multibillion-dollar company, but there were none of the ladders and steps to demonstrate achievement.鈥�
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
Greenock Resources Inc. has entered into a letter of intent effective Sept. 18, 2015, to acquire all of the issued and outstanding securities of BeWhere Inc., an arm's-length private Ontario corporation carrying on the business of inventory management and control.
In conjunction with this announcement,听Johnathan Dewdney听has consented to replace Michael Blady as chief executive officer of Greenock Resources.听
Published on: 25 Sep 2015
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