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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands >> BusinessWeek | "Are B-Schools a Blight on the Land? "
Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands is an important and surprisingly disparaging look at business-school education in the U. S.
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From The HP Way, is the best description of what "Business" is:
At Hewlett-Packard (and other companies as well), people, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them.
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One trend that has come up in various conversations I've had lately has been the barriers to productivity. There are, of course, the literal barriers of corporate red tape, financing and other practical matters. I also had an invigorating conversation earlier this week about weaknesses as barriers with Dave over at The Freak Factor.
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We're yodeling back to The Inside Flap. For all of the literary buffs out there, The Inside Flap is all about books -- fiction, non-fiction, anything that catches the eye of the crew at our sister company. If you're not familiar with them, their Milwaukee's own independent string of bookstores.
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Tomorrow, Thursday, morning, Barry Libert and Jon Spector will be on NPR's Morning Edition to talk about We Are Smarter Than Me. It starts at 8:50 ET.
Tune in tomorrow.
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