"An examination of the factors that influence women's rise to leadership in male-dominated industries, informed by scholarly research and personal interviews"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A practical guide for business leaders to rethink work so that it is organized around "tasks" more than "jobs.""--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A practical guide for business leaders to learn from moments of crisis and advance their digital capabilities"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The book explores the origin story of the Open Government Partnership and place the open government reform movement in the context of the long history of public sector reform"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A framework for navigating disruption that crosses industry boundaries, through the development of ecosystems"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology. Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions--but it is …
In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for …
How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites.Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. Wh…
Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked togethe…
"The MIT Sloan School of Management: 50th anniversary."The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices fo…