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Michael Grojean, Professor of Strategic Leadership at the University of Tennessee.
Ivy Exec, in partnership with University of Tennessee’s Haslam School of Business, is seeking to connect with HR leaders – like you – to better understand the latest trends in executive learning and development, and how organizations such as view them.
Peter Burgess
Ivy Exec, in partnership with University of Tennessee’s Haslam School of Business, is seeking to connect with HR leaders – like you – to better understand the latest trends in executive learning and development, and how organizations such as view them.
We kindly invite you to brief call (~30 minutes) with Michael Grojean, Professor of Strategic Leadership at the University of Tennessee. The objective is to gather your opinion on how business programs can continue to equip leaders across all industries with professional development resources that address specific challenges (e.g. executive MBA programs, executive education, MOOCs...etc.).
During our call, we hope to gain your insights on the following (among other) topics:
- What critical capabilities do executives need to possess that provide significant competitive advantage for their organizations?
- What metrics do you use to gauge the impact of development programs?
- In your opinion, what role should business schools play in developing executive leaders?
- In your opinion, how can Executive MBA programs best support the changes in your industry?
Should this be of interest, simply email me back and I would be glad to arrange a time for you to speak with Michael in the coming days. Thank you so much, Peter. I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Milica ---
Milica Stankovic
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Ivy Exec What critical capabilities do executives need to possess that provide significant competitive advantage for their organizations? What metrics do you use to gauge the impact of development programs? In your opinion, what role should business schools play in developing executive leaders? This is a big question. In the 1960s I was the link between our company and a firm called Management Analysis Center (MAC) which was a Harvard Business School faculty driven consulting firm. We were an early puchaser of a mainframe computer and our experience making it work was the subject of a HBS case many decades ago! My view is that for a long time business schools have worked on optimising performance from the perspective of corporate profit, but done very little to optimise for social impact and environmental impact to the detriment of long term sustainability. Again, looking at HBS and the Boston/Cambridge location, the firm of Bain & Company was something like MAC, and in my view a good consulting firm that helped its clients do a better job, but eventually that morphed into Bain Capital which used intellectual capital and competence to do the best possible job for the people who were its investors, and rather less for its clients! From my perspective, a case of net value destruction like much of the modern world's financialization. In your opinion, how can Executive MBA programs best support the changes in your industry? There has been very effective management and optimization of profit performance for a very long time (certainly all of my adult life) with conventional financial management accounting at its core. It is time to manage for social impact and environmental impact as rigorously as