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MBAs Should Take Competency Tests

Harvard Business Review

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. And teaching methods have changed. Why shouldn't business schools and MBAs face the same discipline?

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Be a Better Global Collaborator

Harvard Business Review

They've read a book or taken a class," says Andy Molinsky, a professor of organizational behavior at the Brandeis University International Business School and author of " Switching Cultural Codes." You can also use technology to begin "experiencing" the new culture while still at home. Case Study #1: Knowing when to adapt.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

But that’s exactly why it would be a mistake to look past organizational behavior and culture at GM: It is utterly inevitable that things will go wrong, according to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson. ” (Consider: there are bugs in your smartphone, too – another complex device – but they won’t kill you.).