These are some popular blog items we found great – 'Recent Hits' and 'Golden Oldies':
1: Recent Hits
Senior Execs v. High Potentials
RSM Extols the Friendly CEO
Top Teams and Poor Decisions
Obama’s BP Postmortem: a Leadership Masterclass
Womenomics 101
Boomers Still Need Development
Jimmy Reid - Advocate of 21st Century Management
2: Golden Oldies
Going back to the mid-1990's IEDP has been monitoring developments and changes in high level executive education provision. Our e-Library contains a large number of articles, case studies and research papers on all aspects of management education and leadership development. Here are a selection of these that we found particularly interesting from our long-running archive, grouped under these headings: Corporate Practice; ROI in Executive Education; Executive Education Implementation; Aspects of Executive Education; Public Sector and Corporate Universities.
Corporate Practice
A Conversation with Lucy Hughes, Novartis Employee Engagement
Novartis is one of the world's leading healthcare companies. Created in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz its name is an amalgam of the latin words for "new skills". This could also be a neat summary of what the Global Talent team at Novartis Pharma are also looking for.
Author: Roderick Millar, Editor, IEDP. First published: 2006
Further reading on Corporate Practice:
Developing Management Capability at M&G Investments
This paper seeks to challenge what are outmoded assumptions that executives can be developed and that development is any large measure dependent on 'learning events'
Author: Gareth Jones, Head of Leadership Development & Training, M&G Investments, First published: 2002
A legend in the oil field services sector, Schlumberger has built that renown on industry-leading technology and a deep expertise that allows the company to deliver maximum value to its customers.
Authors: MIT Sloan,
First Published: 2007
ROI in Executive Education
An ROI Study of a Four Year Executive Education Custom Program at Chicago GSB
Author: Prof. Ronald S Burt and Don Ronchi; Abridged by: Roderick Millar, editor of IEDP; First published: 2005
Further reading on ROI in Executive Education:
Strategic tool or just nice to have?The role of Executive Education in the UK
A Saïd Business School Report, First published: 2006
This survey explores the perceptions of business school users in relation to the evaluation of executive education. The study was undertaken by Ashridge on behalf of UNICON.
Author: Kate Charlton, Ashridge, First Published: May 2005
Does Management Development Add Value?
Both here in the UK and elsewhere, organisations are becoming more anxious to measure the value of executive development.
Author: Keith Patching, Cranfield School of Management , First published: 1999
To help managers and academics better understand the drivers of organic growth, the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business has undertaken the Leading Organic Growth initiative, a multiphase, in-depth qualitative field study that began over two years ago and continues to expand. Examining the intersection between leadership, entrepreneurship, and strategic thinking, this initiative aims to not only establish new theory as to what drives successful organic growth leadership but also share the practical implications for this new knowledge rapidly with managers at the front lines of companies.
Authors: Sean Carr, Director of Corporate Innovation Programs, and Corinne Pierce,The Batten Institute, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. First Published: March 2008
Based on the book “Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion, The IMD Guide.”
Authors: Paul Strebel, Sandoz Family Foundation Professor of Strategic Change Management and Tracey Keys, IMD Research Associate, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, First published: 2005
China's economic growth has steadied the helm of the world economy for several years. Its spectacular growth has placed increasing demands on the management of Chinese companies. HEC Paris runs an EMBA in China open to executives at SASAC the Chinese State holding company. Josh Kobb, International Programs Director at HEC Paris Executive Education takes a look at the whole Chinese exec-ed market.
Author: Josh Kobb, International Program Director, HEC Paris Executive Education, First Published: November 2007
Harvard Builds Its Global Enterprise in India
India has a growing number of home-grown business schools, the best of which are beginning to attract participants from across south Asia - however very few can compete with the academic resources and experience of the leading US schools. Now some of those schools are setting-up shop in India as well.
Author: Roderick Millar, Editor, IEDP.info, First Published: November 2007
Reflections on Executive Education
The executive education sector continues to develop a pace, both in terms of what executives (and their organisations) are demanding and also what providers are able to offer. This article from the prestigious IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, acknowledges the rise of non-business school participants in the sector and examines where the different types of provider might find their strengths lie in the coming years.
Authors: Prof Bettina Büchel and former IMD Research Fellow, Don Antunes, First Published: October 2007
Public Sector and Corporate Universities
Corporate Universities: The UK Government Approach
These are challenging but exciting times in the public sector. Never has the public sector been under more pressure to improve the services it delivers but equally never have more resources been allocated to the public sector. As the Prime Minister has said "the public have paid their money and now expect better services"
Author: Margaret Saner, Head of Leadership Development Division, CMPS, Cabinet Office CMPS, UK Government’s Business School, First published: 2004
Further reading on Corporate Universities:
Corporate Universities: The Pragmatics of Organizational Learning
For a decade the number of multinational companies with corporate universities (CUs) has been steadily increasing. Areas of the public sector now have their equivalents, too - vide, the Defence Academy, Centrex, the National College for School Leadership, and the potentially colossal NHS University. It is wearing thin to dismiss the trend as just another corporate fad. So what is going on?
Author: Prof. Rob Paton, The Open University Business School.
First published: 2004
C
orporate Universities: A New Structure for Educational Development Within The UK Health Service
The NHS spends a massive £3-4 billion on training each year - roughly 5% of its overall budget, more than the proportion of the country's GDP that is spent on education. As an organisation it is Europe's - and probably the worlds' - biggest spender of work-related learning.
Author: NHSU ,
First published: 2004
