| A Sharp Critique of MBA Education
Business schools had lofty ambitions when they were created, with the goal of producing professionals who would have the respect of doctors and lawyers, according to a new book that sees M.B.A. programs today as largely having failed to live up to those ideals. To this day, he writes, many business schools are still struggling to define their missions. The author — Rakesh Khurana — knows business schools well: He is an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Harvard Business School. He recently answered questions about the themes of his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession, just published by Princeton University Press. .
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1 FRIDAY LuMaxx Productions' "Love Letters," Feb. 1-2, 8-9 and 14-16 with dinner at 6:30 p.m. and performance at 7:30 p.m.; and Feb. 10 and 17 with lunch at 1 p.m. and performance at 2 p.m. at Big Momma's Back Porch Theatre & Coffee House, 217 E. Commercial St. Tickets are $25 for dinner and show or $10 for show only. Call 865-9911 or 864-1976. Food Allergy Support Group, 6:30 p.m. at the barn classroom at Rutledge-Wilson Farm Community Park, 3825 W. Farm Road 146. For parents of children with food allergies. RSVP to foodallergysupport@live.com or call 872-9383 or 886-7518. .
Vote Snub Fails to Silence Chavez
VENEZUELA'S leader Hugo Chavez usually thrives on political tussles but rarely has the socialist president looked as chastened as he did after a stinging defeat in a referendum last week. Not that the verbose admirer of Simon Bolivar was caught tongue-tied by the rebuke. After voters rejected his package of constitutional reforms, which would have enabled him to stand for election indefinitely and put the country even more firmly on a socialist course, Chavez chided followers who abstained, warning them that "the referendum wasn't approved, so I'll have to go in 2013 when his term in office ends. You owe me one, you owe the nation. It's up to you whether you pay us back." The reforms - rejected by a slim margin of 50.7% to 49.3% with an abstention rate of 44% - would have restricted private property, shortened the working week from 44 to 36 hours and extended social security to casual labour.
Home Spray Cleaners Could Raise Asthma Risk
FRIDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Using household cleaning sprays and spray air fresheners just once a week can increase your risk of developing asthma, new research suggests. Whether or not the cleaning products are a direct cause of asthma, or simply a trigger for people who already have the disease, isn't clear from this epidemiological study. However, the European team involved in the study believes that spray cleaners can be a cause of new-onset asthma, because the people included in this study did not have asthma or asthma symptoms at the start of the study. The use of spray cleaners as little as once a week increased the risk of developing the respiratory ailment by nearly 50 percent, the researchers found. "Cleaning sprays, especially air fresheners, furniture cleaners and glass cleaners, had a particularly strong effect.
Top Scientist and Prolific Inventor is Strategic Hire for UB
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The renowned inventor of the tiny batteries that have helped make implantable cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators and other medical devices a life-saving reality for millions of patients has accepted a faculty position in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Esther S. Takeuchi, Ph.D., is leaving her post as chief scientist at Greatbatch, Inc., after 22 years and will begin her new position as a professor in the UB departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering on Sept. 1. Takeuchi often is cited as the woman awarded the most patents in the U.S. -- 134 at last count, most of them related to her pioneering development of sophisticated power sources for implantable devices, now a booming multibillion-dollar business.
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