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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

The question is: How will management advance to influence the path and force of these revolutions? But increasingly this industrial-age management mindset is becoming an impediment to our fully realizing the promise of the digital revolution’s technologies. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes.

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