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Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

Just look at the comments below any article about virtual teams. Sure, these technological improvements help in many ways. Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. But more often than not, the problem we’re facing isn’t a technological one, but a social one.

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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

Luckily, b-school professors seem to be hybrids of economist, therapist, actor, and manager. Teams would diagnose problems and synthesize solutions for them, and then act those out in the landscape, starting a dynamic exchange. We have knowledge to bestow on students, a stage to practice our craft, and design capabilities for pedagogy.