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The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education and Walden University recently held a joint web conference on the topic of “Environmental Responsibility and the Major Multinational Corporation.” Text of two presentations is available here.
Social Knowledge is the use of social media to create, transfer, and preserve organizational knowledge – past, present, and future – with a view to achieving the organizational vision.
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Beginning January 2009, Human Resource Management, the Journal is soliciting and accepting papers for a new special section of the Journal. This section will focus on research methods in HRM. Learn more.
We live and work in an environment laced with complex systems. What does foresight mean in today’s environment? How do we manage differently if the environment is simple, complex or chaotic? Will we have to change the way we look at everything?
These and other questions will be answered by Paul Schumann’s online discussion.
August 13, 2009 from 5 to 7 PM CDT
Register here.
Governments can bring some very important legitimacy to a multi-sector partnership, writes this week’s Social Edge host Hanniah Tariq. But social entrepreneurs may need a set of special skills to partner with them, especially as official bureaucracy can be a significant deterrent.
A doctoral candidate in Economic and Social Innovation at the University of Buckingham Business School, Tariq wonders what these skills are and what should be done to build effective cross-sector partnerships. Join her and share your own experience working with governments.
Join in this global discussion here.
A special issue with the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences will focus on: “Virtues in Organizations Cultivating Creativity, Collaboration, and Collective Well-being.”
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In preparation for Blogging for Management Scholars! professional development workshop at the Academy of Management, a site is now online at InsightstoAction. Whether or not you can attend the workshop at this year’s conference, the site has some great resources for management scholars and bloggers.
The MIT Sloan Management Review has posted a new special report on Design Thinking.” Design thinking — distinct from analytical thinking — has emerged as the premier organizational path not only to breakthrough innovation but, surprisingly, to high-performance collaboration, as well. ” The report, including articles, interviews, illustrated cases and research findings, is online. (Capella community members can access the publication in the library.)
Training Magazine presents:
Future of the Business of Learning
Free Online Event on July 23; Register here.
9 AM – 2 PM Pacific Time / 4 PM – 9 PM GMT
“Corporate training departments and training companies are facing challenging times. It’s clear to thrive they need to focus on business critical issues for the organization, provide solutions provide real value, differentiate their offerings, and look at ways to provide value beyond being a publisher of courses and courseware. However, that’s easier said than done.”
This event includes four panels and a discussion:
* Panel #1 – Industry Perspectives
* Panel #2 – Internal Training Perspectives
* Panel #3 – Training Company Perspectives
* Panel #4 – Software and Services Perspectives
A free summer webinar series is offered by iCohere. Find out more.
