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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise. Europe faces comparable challenges as the EU as a monetary union confronts the limitations of the EU as a political project.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this. We needed to be able to work with a continually changing curriculum design, and with the group projecting their discomfort with the wider change — and how it was being experienced in the program — onto the faculty.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

Less of a traditional academic setting and more of an executive boot camp, Blue’s MBA program only accepted experienced managers and exposed them to heavy doses of assisted reflection (journaling, coaching) and practice (projects in real companies). Blue seemed to keep its promise. Companies lined up to hire them.