Live Video: A Conversation with Chuck Todd, NBC News Political Director and Host of "Meet the Press"
Watch the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism lecture featuring @[866381803408325:274:Chuck Todd], @[155869377766434:274:NBC News] Political Director and Moderator of @[103708747870:274:Meet the Press], the flagship Sunday morning public affairs program and longest-running broadcast in television history. Todd will engage in a conversation with the audience moderated by Edward A. Snyder, Indra K. Nooyi Dean and William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management.Watch the lecture live online: https://youtu.be/g4_yKOD5wnA
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CHALLENGE EXTENDED: The Reunion Giving Challenge has been extended until midnight tonight! We just are just 18 reunion donors away from reaching our goal of 200 new donors to the Alumni Fund. Help us earn an extra $100,000 from Edward De La Rosa ’81 and John Resor ’81 by making your contribution today: www.yale.edu/giveSOM
Sir John Vickers, one of the UK's most respected economists, has used an Imperial talk to criticise Bank of England policy on capital requirements. Read the full story: imprl.biz/1SA6io1
What better way to celebrate #WorldBookDay than with a list of top reads selected by LBS faculty? Enjoy!
• 5 top reads on human potential http://bit.ly/213OaD9
• 8 must-read books on leadership http://bit.ly/1WJZRyM
Five book recommendations which force you to ask: am I being my best self?
3rd Annual Tuck Initiative for Women Symposium: Please join us for a kickoff dinner with a Keynote Address by Governor Margaret Hassan in the Grand Ballroom at the Hanover Inn. Registration required. http://bit.ly/26uiYB8 …
When Lecturer Brandi Pearce opened the New York Times Magazine's "Worklife" issue last week, she was thrilled. The lead story was a fascinating deep dive into Google's search for the ingredients of a perfect team, and the conclusion sounded like a page from the Teams@Haas curriculum Pearce has spearheaded in the Berkeley MBA Program.
After hunting for patterns among 180 teams over more than three years, Google found that their most successful teams share certain "group norms"—specifically, a culture of empathy and communication, where everyone feels comfortable taking risks and has a chance to speak and contribute.
"It was really exciting for me to see a company that so many people recognize come to the same conclusions that we have unraveled through science," says Pearce, who studies group dynamics in global organizations.
"Google highlighted the importance of creating a team climate in which people can read each others' social cues, where everyone's perspective is voiced, and in which members feel safe debating differing perspectives and engaging in reflection and feedback," she added.
These positive group norms that support the development of "psychological safety," as outlined in the article, are at the heart of the Teams@Haas curriculum, now in its third year in the full-time MBA program. It's unusual in that rather than being a stand-alone class, Teams@Haas is woven throughout the program, building on itself as students gain new skills.
The program culminates in the applied innovation courses, where students work with outside clients. (Read more about how the Teams@Haas curriculum helped a group break through even the most mundane challenges and build a successful team.)
Though it might sound obvious that teams where people listen to and respect each other perform well, it's sometimes easier said than done—especially in complex work environments where leveraging differences is essential for growth and innovation. Effective collaboration requires a series of skills, such as giving and receiving feedback, that don't come naturally to everyone. Yet they can be learned.
In addition to defining the behaviors that foster collaboration, the Teams@Haas curriculum gives students specific tools, which Pearce likes to refer to as scaffolds.
“In a construction project, the scaffolding is transparent and strong, and can be reconfigured easily as the project evolves," Pearce says. "We give students a set of collaboration tools that do exactly that. ”
These tools help students develop a shared understanding of the interpersonal capabilities needed to promote a safe team climate, as well as how to recognize each others' motivations, and coordinate work in a fluid and dynamic context.
The curriculum also extends and reinforces the Berkeley-Haas Defining Principles: Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself.
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NVC Alumni winner Cobli is big data for fleet and logistics in South America. Watch the winning pitch.
Nisha Desai Biswal, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs visited #ISB’s Hyderabad campus. She participated in an interactive session with the students of the Management Programme for Family Business (#MFAB), which was moderated by Professor Rajendra Srivastava, Dean, ISB.
Asteroid mining is a thing now.
You will be able to go to space. And there are serious people serious about colonizing Mars.
Celebrating 70 years of premier minds! #CUPartyOnPark
A Celebration of Business at Cornell! We invite you to be a part of Johnson's premier gala event, Party on Park. Join us in celebrating Johnson's 70th anniversary at a premier gala honoring the remarkable achievements of this year's alumni award recipients. Hosted by the Office of Alumni Affairs and…
Fortune | How MBA Programs Make Great Leaders—and Where They Fail Fortune As fall approaches, a new batch of students will enter thousands of MBA programs around the world. Their aspirations, aside from perhaps a passion for business, are to secure and keep higher paying jobs. The most recent available data shows that MBA ... |
Knowing that Susan or Sam led your audit can be just as important as knowing whether a “Big Four” firm conducted it. New research shows the benefits of providing auditor transparency: http://kell.gg/1VbJWdh
If a top-notch person conducts your audit, it pays to let investors know.
Good luck to Kellogg student Rose Jordan and alumna Ada Kussainova ’15 during today's 2016 Clean Energy Trust Challenge! The competition is the largest single-day pitch competition for energy startups in the U.S. Learn about their startup INjoo Networks, a smart resource management software: http://kell.gg/25X91f5
INjoo Networks is a smart resource management software developed for the commercial real estate market based on breakthrough research at Northwestern University.
"You don’t take (Peter) Goodson’s class if you want to find answers. You take it if you want to learn how to identify and ask the right questions," says Zara Khan, MBA 16. http://haas.org/1RYXFQs
Curious about what kind of student attends the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University? Read more about some of our MBA for Professional students on our newly redesigned site. #RiceMBA
Our students come from a wide variety of background and bring a range of academic and business interests.
Yesterday, MSc Strategic Marketing students were visited by an inspirational Cranfield Alumnus, now Insight Executive at KPMG Nunwood, as they learnt how to obtain a career in Market Research and Customer Experience...
Congrats to our alumni Ignacio Gamoneda and Munya Gwisai for winning the first edition of IE Fintech Venture Day, with their project Pich Technologies, a technology-based startup meant to become one of Europe´s most promising projects in the finance data providing sector. #goingtoIEU …This post has been republished in its entirety from its original source, metromba.com.
A decade ago, the top job choice for MBA grads was consulting. Now, the new “sexy” and coveted position is that of the product manager. It’s a role that allows MBAs to combine marketing, design and problem-solving—all the elements that an MBA grad loves.
In fact, top MBA programs at schools such as Harvard Business School, Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and Kellogg School of Management are offering new courses and programs designed for a career in product management. It’s so attractive because being a Product Manager is considered a mini-CEO job, where candidates become the CEO of the product.
However, it’s not that simple.
So, What Does It Mean to Be a Product Manager?According to Mind the Product, an effective product manager must be skilled in three areas:
Business: Above all else, a product manager must be great at business. They need to be focused on maximizing business value and optimizing their company’s products to achieve maximum return on investment.Technology: A product manager also has to be able to understand technology—and what it takes to create, implement and roll out the products under his or her purview. Project managers must be willing and able to spend time with the development team, understanding what they do better than anyone else in the business.User Experience: Finally, a product manager is the voice of the customer. They must be passionate about the user experience, knowing how to take and implement feedback to get the results they need.Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer was formerly a project manager at Google, where she had her hands in every little bit of the product. She paid attention to everything from on-site experience to how the product is presented in an ad or at a conference. She was the ultimate advocate of the company’s products, and she was willing to do anything to protect the integrity of the overall product vision.
During any given day, a product manager can jump from a business development meeting into a problem-solving session with engineers. It’s a role that will never allow you to be bored or require you to do the same thing everyday.
Monster.com describes a product manager as someone who develops products by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, production timetables, pricing, and time-integrated plans for product introduction; and developing marketing strategies.
Product Manager SalaryThe average annual salary for product managers is $108,659 a year, according to GlassDoor. On the very low end, an introductory position could pay as little as $55K. On the high end, for larger companies and for experienced individuals, product managers could expect to make $160,000.
Working as a Product ManagerThere’s no doubt that product management is a coveted career role. It has a special appeal for many MBAs because they feel the role has a tangible impact on the company. “I like the idea of constantly improving a product that has an impact on users,” Meghan Servello, an MBA student at Cornell, told the Wall Street Journal.
Unfortunately, it’s not a career field that every MBA can jump into. MBAs without technology backgrounds may struggle to transition from their coursework into their career. In truth, companies like Facebook look for product managers who have already built products or, at least, already have the skill set to build products. As for companies like Operator, they’re indifferent about their applicants having an MBA as long as they have a background in technology.
Do You Need an MBA to Be a Product Manager?It doesn’t hurt.
In truth though, there is no educational path to help you become a product manager. They typically come from a wide-variety of backgrounds. Marissa Mayer and Leah Culver (of DropBox) started off as engineers, whereas Caterina Fake (of Flickr and Hunch) started as an art director and majored in English.
For Max Wesman, a senior director of product management for GoodHire and a 2010 MBA graduate of Berkeley-Haas, a career in product management was the right choice and so was his MBA. He revealed his thoughts in a blog post.
“For me, product management was a great opportunity to blend what I loved about consulting with being able to nurture, build and launch a product or service into the market that people would use and enjoy,” said Wesman. “Not only that, but I would be able to stick around after finishing a project and work on improving the experience for the next release, all while working with customers to better understand their needs. In my career as a PM, I’ve definitely had to reach back into my business school experiences bag for everything from dealing with troublesome personalities on development teams, pricing new products, evaluating A-B tests for statistical significance, presenting a product vision and building financial models for forecasting.”
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Join Assoc Prof Mark Goh and Dr Liu Qizhang as well as Yamato Asia MD & Group CEO Richard Chua for a panel discussion on logistics practices in Yamato and its delivery specialist TA-Q-BIN. The event marks the launch of a book (Mark and Qizhang are the authors) on TA-Q-BIN's service excellence and innovation in urban logistics. Find out more here: bit.ly/24oYfA3
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