MBA teaching

The Correct Answer is: Build Capacity

June 17, 2013

Tweet “Fire him”. That’s the business school student’s default answer to the question that starts nearly every case conversation: “What should the manager do?” My role as a professor is to teach management students why “fire him” is almost never the correct answer — and to understand what always *could be* the correct answer. Management […]

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Authentic Student Entrepreneurs: Embedding Personal, Product and Organizational Brand

February 17, 2010

Tweet What do fledgling entrepreneurs need to know about creating authenticity? And what, if anything, does this have to do with cupcakes? I had a chance to try to boil it all down to a few key ideas when I taught two classes of an undergraduate Entrepreneurship course at NYU’s Stern School of Business. My […]

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115 Million Cups of Comfort: Kozy Shack Pudding

January 11, 2008

Tweet Have you ever been asked, as part of a personal visioning exercise, to write your own obituary? To all of those MBA students and executives who had to do just that in my leadership classes, I officially apologize. While I understand the merits of imagining what your life could have been like as a […]

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