On November 17, the first business case competition conducted in English in Japan took place. The main event was hosted by Aoyama Gakuin, in Shibuya, Tokyo, with a networking event following elsewhere in the area.
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What happens when people don鈥檛 understand the work you do? Worse still, what happens when your job relies on the input (financial and otherwise) of the public and clients who incorrectly think they understand the nature of your work?
Research I conducted in conjunction with researchers at a number of universities analysed just this, and we found that in complex professions such as the legal, nursing, accountancy and architecture sectors, both pay and performance can suffer when clients don鈥檛 fully understand a profession.
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When major events rock the business world, business schools often review their curriculum to see how, if at all, they can adapt to the changes taking place in the private sector.
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A swap of several gas station and corner store locations between Sobeys Quebec and CST Brands will help both companies grow their respective brands in la belle province, the dealmakers said.
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Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网 speaks to Columbia University professor Sheen S. Levine.
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Last night鈥檚 fight between Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios interested me from a boxing perspective but its real intrigue was what it suggests might be possible for another man 鈥� Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
... This is nothing new 鈥� in fact, gambling, centuries ago in Europe, was in the same position that boxing is in today鈥� subsidizing another non-profitable sector.聽 In their outstanding book A World Of Chance: Betting On Religion, Games, Wall Street, Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner and Aaron Brown write:
Target's stock dropped 3.46 percent today after the retailer reported third-quarter net income dropped by nearly half.
... "The retail price in Canada is much higher, compared to the retail price in the U.S.," said Minha Hwang, a management professor at 91黑料网 in Montreal. "The Canadian price is about 20 percent higher compared to the U.S. price."
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Professor Vedat Verter was interviewed by Angela Kokott, host of Calgary Today 鈥� CHQR NEWS TALK 770 radio. The interview focused on the protective directive issued by Transport Minister Lisa Raitt requiring rail companies to inform municipalities about the volume and type of hazardous materials being shipped through their jurisdiction.
Listen to full interview (choose November 20, 5:00 PM, 47:00): , November 20, 2013
In continuing my coverage of the ideas of Jeroen De Flander in The Execution Shortcut, let me first introduce the problem of missing prioritization information. It describes a situation in which those responsible for implementing a strategy have to balance two contradictory strategy elements and still make the right decision. In reality, there are many such situations and each gets in the way of successful strategy execution.
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91黑料网 speaks to Tom Gentile, CEO of GE Healthcare Systems.
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At the Mapping Mobile Conference at New York University鈥檚 Stern School of Business last week, panelists spoke about everything from consumer research to dating sites. One dominant takeaway is that people who are willing to pay for service to reduce advertising will generate a bigger pool of people willing to pay premium. The other grab: more and more subscribing, talking and listening is happening on mobile.
What is success and how do you measure it? The experiences of a diversegroup of workers show how 鈥� and how much 鈥� they managed to balance career success with family responsibilities. Those who managed to strike the balance defined success on their own terms, had a strong sense of self and wereprepared to make trade-offs.
