Most people return to business school for an M.B.A. degree to increase their marketability in a highly competitive business environment. How well they achieve their goal depends in large measure on how the business world views the schools they attended.For the first time ever, The Wall Street Journal, the world's most respected business publication, along with Harris Interactive, the organization that created the well-known Harris poll, tells you what corporate recruiters f...

The MBA is probably the hottest ticket among the current university graduate degree offerings--every year, more than 120,000 students enroll in MBA programs in the United States, and the estimates in Europe do not lag far behind. In addition, job prospects have never looked better for business school graduates; corporations are hiring more business school graduates every year, and compensating them more handsomely. The Future of the MBA provides a sorely needed detailed and system...

The purpose of succession-related practices is to ensure that there are ready replacements for key positions in an organization so that turnover will not negatively affect the organization's performance. CCL first published an annotated bibliography on succession planning in 1995. That bibliography focused primarily on the link between succession and management development. This bibliography has a broader scope; it is an update and expansion, commensurate with the maturation of this area o...

The Business Law Study Brief is intended as a quick reference guide to key points of law, legal concepts and terms that business professionals, including employees, managers and students need to know. This overview touches upon many areas of public and private law including: aspects of criminal law, civil law, statutory law, common law, intellectual property law, consumer protection law, real estate law, tax law and property law. This Study Brief provides a condensed yet thorough introduct...

This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on the educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages (SENDDD). It covers the number of students concerned, their learning environment (special schools, special classes and regular classes) and level of education (pre-primary, compulsory and upper secondary education). It also discusses policy implications vis-à-vis special education needs and offers an analysis of the particip...

Although leadership development is widely acknowledged as important, our understanding of it is largely implicit. This has made programs that seek to promote it difficult to design and implement, and challenging to evaluate effectively. The model presented in this report specifies how programs can affect a key aspect of leadership development--the psychological development of the individual.

This volume of thematic studies offers multifaceted interpretations of education for sustainable and solidary development (ESSD). It is a joint work of academics, teachers and researchers covering the domain of education from the perspective of economy, social sciences, language studies, communication and pedagogy. The authors　propose a range of reflections and empirical studies which refer to: various means and methods for an effective teaching/learning process; transversal skills related...

The Leadership Metaphor Explorer Facilitator's Guide provides a facilitator with helpful instruction to use the Leadership Metaphor Explorer Tool - a compact tool for enabling creative, insightful conversations within and among groups of people.

My promise is to show people how to become an expert in their niche, or their industry, or their topic. Remember, expertise doesn’t have only one definition. Expertise is a ladder, and you’re constantly climbing the ladder of expertise. So, if you’re at the bottom, we’re going to help you get on the top couple of rungs and then show you how to keep on climbing.The benefit of this is that experts get the gigs! Experts sell the books. Experts get the paid speaking engagements. Expert...

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Willard J. Graham (1897-1966) was an important contributor to both accounting thought and education and he pioneered life-long education for executive business that is still emulated today. This volume collects 25 of his key writings which shed light on his contributions to management accounting and business education as well as the accounting profession.

"1. National figures reveal that the probability of a youth offender on probation committing another crime is 0.80. (This is called “recidivism.”) After a special government program intended to reduce recidivism is put in place, a sample of 100 young offenders enrolled in the program reveals that 70 subsequently committed another crime. You are asked to make a judgment about whether the government funds invested in this program have succeeded in reducing crime.a. State the null and ...