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Change and Continuity: Mintzberg and Kotter agree

Published: 26 November 2012

(Desautels' Karl Moore): “It seems every Business School professor starts by saying how much the world has changed” – that was Henry Mintzberg’s opening to a session on change, not unsurprisingly...

Rock of Ageism

Published: 26 November 2012

When longevity is a plus in the arenas of jazz, blues and country, do aging rockers face scorn? When Dave Brubeck last made one of his semi-regular appearances at the Montreal International Jazz...

Bringing the "Voice of God" to TV audio

Published: 21 November 2012

The addition of speaker channels above the familiar 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound array can recreate an exceptionally lifelike ambient soundfield, and enables much more accurate localization of aerial...

Talking management: The CEO isn't the only leader

Published: 21 November 2012

Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail, speaks with MIT’s Deborah Ancona. "…Distributive leadership is a term that we have recently developed...

A facial scrub with that MRI?

Published: 21 November 2012

The term “medical tourism” may conjure images of clinics in far-flung countries that offer a tempting proposition: world travel and cut-rate surgery. Yet a Quebec clinic hopes that Canadians will...

Q&A with university leaders

Published: 21 November 2012

Heather Munroe-Blum - Appointed in 2003 at 91˿Ƶ. What is the biggest challenge your successor faces? No matter what the challenges are, the job is an exhilarating one, the people...

Do books matter? And if so,why?

Published: 19 November 2012

(Review) The poor book. The poor book publisher. Is there any other industry that labours under such a poignant threat of obsolescence? Or produces such large quantities of unsaleable items? Now...

Twitter is safer in America

Published: 19 November 2012

Two men this week confronted unproven sexual accusations that may ruin their reputations.  The incidents, which took place on different sides of the Atlantic, raise questions about how the law...

Vinegar health claims leave a bitter taste

Published: 19 November 2012

(Joe Schwarcz): In 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal crossed the Alps with his elephants to settle a score with Rome. The perilous journey almost came to an end at what looked like an...

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