Photos from University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center
A Look At 8 Pioneering Figures In Black History At Penn
News from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
For three weeks now, Penn has joined communities across the country to commemorate Black History Month.
In light of the annual, month-long observance, The Daily Pennsylvanian dug into the University’s archives to present a brief history of black students, faculty, and staff at Penn.
When it came to researching the gig economy, driving for Uber made it “easy to get embedded in the market as you analyze it,” Paul Oyer says. Winni Wintermeyer photo
What An Economist Is Learning By Driving For Uber
News from Stanford Graduate School of Business
“Over the past few years, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Paul Oyer has explored the growing gig economy from many perspectives. He’s analyzed hourly and annual income differences between freelancers and full-time employees. He’s researched (and consulted for) Upwork, the world’s largest freelance website. He’s nosed around Uber’s database. And last year, to better understand how the ride-sharing platform works, he became one of the company’s certified drivers.
“We recently sat down with Oyer. Our main goal was to learn more about the many cultural shifts being caused by the exploding gig economy, but we also wondered what a tenured professor of economics learned by driving people around for money.”
Dayne Walling at Averbuch Auditorium
Four Lessons In Leadership From The Former Mayor Of Flint, MI
News from Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
“After the City of Flint switched water supply sources from the Detroit water system to the Flint River in April 2014 while under a state-appointed manager, local residents began complaining about the smell, taste, and color of the water, and claimed it caused skin problems. Eventually, health issues emerged, including an outbreak of Legionnaires disease and signs of lead poisoning in children.
“During the first months of the crisis, then-mayor Dayne Walling tried to respond to complaints and address the known problems. As the crisis continued, Walling lost his mayoral re-election campaign in November 2015, ending his two terms in office. Eventually, the water was found to contain high levels of bacteria and lead due to insufficient water treatment and corrosion prevention.”
What It Takes To Transform Your Firm
News from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
“In business, longevity requires continual transformation from companies. Sometimes small adjustments are sufficient. But other times businesses need to reconceive their most fundamental operations in order to survive and stay vital.
“Just ask Diane Brink. Brink served as IBM’s Chief Marketing Officer for Global Technology Services from 2008 to 2015 — a period that saw IBM shift from a focus on legacy infrastructure services to cloud-based services and solutions.
“’Organizations can never exist effectively in a steady state,’ says Brink, now a senior fellow and adjunct professor in the markets and customers initiative at the Kellogg School.”
Spanning The Boundaries That Limit Organizational Innovativeness
News from INSEAD
“By their very nature, multinational corporations straddle many boundaries, most obviously national, cultural, economic, institutional and organisational. Adding to the challenge is the fact that these boundaries span both the external and internal contexts in which the firm’s units operate. As such, they can become a source of conflict as organisations try to reconcile the search for efficient global integration with the need to compete in diverse local environments.
“External boundaries range from tangible ones such as accounting practices, reporting standards or labour laws, to more subtle ones such as customers’ cultural preferences or channel practices. Internal boundaries include cognition and modes of action across geographies and cultures, as well as functional and knowledge domains. As many managers will be aware, mergers and alliances can add further layers of professional and organisational boundaries which are difficult to erase. For example, even though they merged in 2004, Air France and KLM still retain distinct cultures, attitudes and behaviours. And years after the merger that led to the creation of Novartis, staff continued to identify as either Ciba-Geigy or Sandoz employees.”
Why These Wharton Faculty Love Teaching In San Francisco
News from The Wharton School
“Since its founding in 2001, Wharton San Francisco has been a hub of academic and entrepreneurial activity for Wharton students and alumni on the West Coast. Overlooking the city’s Embarcadero and a block from the Bay Bridge, the modern campus offers stunning views of the San Francisco Bay.
“EMBA courses at Wharton San Francisco are taught by East Coast-based faculty who fly to San Francisco for class weekends. Wharton faculty love teaching on the West Coast. We asked a few of them to share what they enjoy most about EMBA students and our San Francisco campus. Here is what they said:”
Professor Kalyan Talluri is Program Director of MSc Business Analytics (Online)
Imperial College Business School Launches Online Masters In Business Analytics
News from Imperial College Business School
“Imperial College Business School is set to run its first Online Masters in Business Analytics program from October 2018.
“Modelled on Imperial’s existing offline MSc in business analytics, the MSc Business Analytics (online delivery, part-time) program has been built specifically to cater to business professionals around the world who wish to develop their capabilities in data analytics, programming and machine learning.
“The program will be delivered through The Hub, Imperial’s purpose-built online learning environment developed from the ground up by the School’s award winning Ed Tech lab.”
Perfectionism Is Increasing, And That’s Not Good News
News from Harvard Business School
“According to the World Health Organization, a record number of young people worldwide are suffering from serious depression or anxiety disorders. In some sections of society, there is a tendency to dismiss this trend as the product of an over-indulged, over-entitled, and over-sensitive ‘snowflake generation.’
“To the contrary, there is growing evidence that the increase in psychological ill-health of young people may stem from the excessive standards that they hold for themselves and the harsh self-punishment they routinely engage in. Increasingly, young people hold irrational ideals for themselves, ideals that manifest in unrealistic expectations for academic and professional achievement, how they should look, and what they should own. Young people are seemingly internalizing a pre-eminent contemporary myth that things, including themselves, should be perfect.”
How To Thrive As An Introvert At HBS
News from HBS
“Diamond Richardson is a first-year student at HBS (class of 2019). She is the co-founder of Thrive, a community designed to support women of color who are pursuing MBAs and careers in business and tech. Here, Diamond shares her experience and tips for future students about what life is like at HBS as an introvert.
“Do you have to be an extrovert to attend HBS?
“HBS is a social place. There is no doubt about it. You could easily fill up every second of your non-class hours with coffees, intramural sports, happy hours, dinners, and parties. In this environment, it is easy to feel like you have to be a person who gets energy from all of this constant social interaction (an extrovert) to be happy here. I, however, am an introvert. That does not necessarily mean I am shy. I love talking to people and listening to their stories. Despite that, I’ve learned that I need some downtime each day to recoup from my interactions and recharge.”
McCombs Graduate Education Center Modernizes A Main Campus Entrance
News from the University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business
“After more than nearly four years of construction, UT celebrated the grand opening of Robert B. Rowling Hall, the new graduate business education center in the McCombs School of Business.
“’Well finally, we have Rowling Hall after five years,’ said UT President Gregory Fenves at the grand opening on Thursday afternoon. ‘When I started — I started as president two and a half years ago — it was known as “Rowling Hole.”‘
“The new facility is five stories tall, with an additional six stories of underground parking, which provides more than 400 parking spaces. It has 17 classrooms, 23 conference rooms, 21 interview rooms, 80 study and breakout rooms and a 15,000 square-foot ballroom. The building also has a bar and a cafe, which was named ‘Moontower Cafe’ by a business student, who won the restaurant’s naming contest in 2015.”
DON’T MISS LAST WEEK’S DATA-PACKED BULLETIN
The post B-School Bulletin: 8 Pioneering Penn Figures In Black History appeared first on Poets&Quants.
from Poets&Quants
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment