The Sauder MBA is in dynamic revision.  Some would argue this is frustrating — others would say that curriculum always should be evolving and transforming in response to students and societal context.  Whichever side of the fence you sit on, the Global Immersion for our Full Time MBAs had its inaugural run this past February. [...]

As part of the World Class Cities Partnership’s 2013 research project — “Co-Creating Urban Sustainability” — 4 Sauder MBA students (Phil Gray, Reid Keller, Michele Mossman & Geoff Carran) have started a project on Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging.  http://www.northeastern.edu/wccp/  The course (a Sauder Directed Study) is being led along strategic design principles, which include: Co-creation [...]

I met Dirk Beveridge in a bar in Rhode Island.  No surprise, as most of my best professional relationships have started in bars.  (Note that I use the word “relationship” intentionally – doing great things starts with the relationship first – details second.  And bars tend to bring out our authentic selves, which helps us build authentic [...]

When I was at BiF8, the kind folks at SYPartners gave us all a prototype deck of cards to test out, as a way to help us each identify our unique “superpower”.  (Superpowers are all the rage, BTW). According to the cards, mine is “distillation”.  I’m not sure I’d call that my super-power, though I do consider it a [...]

I’ve been wanting to go to this event for years. As a story geek, I’m fatally attracted to the idea of spending two days immersed in real stories. And BiF8 didn’t disappoint.  The event featured 32 storytellers over two days, with lots of time in between sessions for “random collisions”.  I’d say that about half [...]