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Finance Faculty Reflect on the Financial Crisis
Tales of the ever-widening financial crisis have dominated the business and mainstream news in recent months. Public and private sector institutions alike are struggling to respond appropriately and productively. Management educators are challenged to consider the ways in which they can best help their current students understand the crisis, and distill its lessons for future students. This Closer Look spotlights several finance professors' current teaching on the financial crisis, and their thoughts on how the crisis may lead to changes in the finance curriculum more broadly. |
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Closer Look: Finance Faculty Reflect on the Financial Crisis
Ethics Curriculum: Giving Voice to Values
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Call for Faculty Thoughts on the Financial Crisis
Aspen CBE is planning a response to the subprime and broader financial crisis and would like to interview faculty who are currently addressing these topics in their courses. We'd like to hear your thoughts on how business education can address these current events and help to guard against a recurrence of similar problems. To share your point of view, please contact Rachel Shattuck at rachel.shattuck@aspeninst.org. |
Edmond de Rothschild Foundation Announces Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program
The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation is seeking applicants for the Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program: Dialogue & Social Entrepreneurship, a new, innovative program designed for social entrepreneurs with an interest in fostering a culture of mutual respect and dialogue among Jewish and Muslim communities. Delivered in partnership with Columbia Business School and Cambridge University, this 2-week program blends three educational components: an innovative and action-driven social entrepreneurship program, training in cross-cultural dialogue and leadership, and exposure to state-of-the-art scholarship. For more information, visit www.adrfellowprogram.com |
INSEAD Seeks a Director for Its Social Innovation Center
INSEAD, one of the world's leading business schools, is looking to recruit the Director of the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre (a one year temporary position, eventually renewable), in the Department of Faculty and Research on the Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France. Please visit the INSEAD web site for more information. |
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 Preventing the Biggest Ponzi Scheme of All
By Rich Leimsider, Director of the Center for Business Education
It has been suggested that I write a nice, end-of-year, review of our programs. But if you're reading this newsletter, you probably know a lot about our work already.
Globally, a review of the year seems like a hope vs. dread roller-coaster. People around the world were energized by the candidacy and ultimate victory of a new US president. But the crash of the global economy has taken a lot of fun out of that story. Read more. |
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| Thanks to All Schools Participating in Beyond Grey Pinstripes!
Monday, December 15th marked the deadline for schools to participate in this round of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, the Aspen Institute's biennial survey and alternative ranking of MBA programs worldwide. The survey spotlights innovative full-time MBA programs that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research.
This year's survey will collect more information than ever before! Over the next six months, the data will be reviewed and analyzed by Aspen staff in conjunction with a team of Ph.D. and DBA student Research Fellows who bring a great deal of expertise to the process.
Participating schools will be honored at a breakfast in New York City in the fall of 2009. Final results will be made public at www.BeyondGreyPinstripes.org. |
Access: Voice of the Next Generation Student Essay Contest
Presented by Net Impact and Sponsored by FedEx
FedEx is interested in learning how Generation Y (Gen Y) views Access. They are challenging Gen Y undergraduate and graduate-level students to voice their ideas on where Access will take us next and how it will impact business, technology, medicine, the environment, the economy, etc. in a 1000 - 1,500 word essay. The winner will have their essay featured in Access Review, the annual business magazine published by FedEx that explores the powerful, positive megatrend of Access through a variety of individual, social, economic and global lenses. Winners will also receive full registration to the 2009 Net Impact Conference, plus cash prizes of $2,000, $1,000, and $500.Essays are due: Friday, February 6, 2009. For more information and contest requirements, visit www.netimpact.org/access
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