Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans by Knowledge@Wharton, the online business journal of the Wharton School. Knowledge@Wharton covers research in Finance, Strategic Management, Marketing, Leadership, Business Ethics and 9 other knowledge research categories.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2755
Knowledge@Wharton asks Wharton finance professors Jeremy Siegel and Franklin Allen and real estate professor Susan Wachter for their views on the global economy.
David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints—fiscal, temporal, or otherwise—drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company.
Something happened to management culture decades ago and now being a Master of Business Administration, especially from Harvard, is rather on the nose. MBA, it’s being said, can also stand for ‘Mediocre but Arrogant’, or ‘Management by Accident’. Reporter, Stephen Crittenden.
From: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2009/2526727.htm
This broadcast features Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, speaking at the 2008 Management Conference. He shares his research on how successful CEOs are efficient, proactive, and persistent. Chicago GSB Podcast