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Aspen Institute Announced the 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Award Winners!

Jennifer Hancock / October 8, 2020

Submitted by: Zach Moo Young Why is this important to Humanistic Management:An initiative of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, the Ideas Worth Teaching Awards highlight teaching that prepares students with the content, skills and mindset to respond to the complexity and rapidly changing issues embedded in our economic and social systems. In this time, we brought the awards announcement online for the first time; with a live, virtual event featuring Dean Kerwin Charles (Yale Read more […]

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Call for Nominations: 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Awards

Jennifer Hancock / April 9, 2020

The kind of teaching that the Awards highlight – teaching that “prepares students with the content, skills and mindset to respond to the complexity and rapidly changing issues embedded in our economic and social systems” – is ever more urgent.

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The Link Between Mindfulness, Positive Leadership, and Success

Jennifer Hancock / February 24, 2020

There are certain qualities that make someone a great leader. They need to be able to communicate, delegate, express empathy, influence, show resilience, be accountable, and share their vision — all of which can me strengthened through the art of mindfulness.

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Find your moments: Coping with stress in the workplace

Jennifer Hancock / February 24, 2020

In the everyday bustle of working and fulfilling responsibilities, we tend to forget to devote precious moments to ourselves. Taking moments to re-center ourselves through mindfulness-based practices helps to alleviate stress and move towards well-being.

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Sustainability Centres Community Workshop

Jennifer Hancock / February 3, 2020

Join leaders of business school sustainability research centres June 24-26, 2020, in Vienna, Austria.

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The Beauty of Truth and the Secret to Thinking like Leonardo Da Vinci with Michael J. Gelb

Jennifer Hancock / February 3, 2020

His new book The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World, co-authored with Professor Raj Sisodia, was released on September 17, 2019.

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Corporations in the Crosshairs: From Reform to Redesign

Jennifer Hancock / January 14, 2020

Why is this important to Humanistic Management: In this essay for the Great Transition Initiative, Global Reporting Initiative co-founder Allen White reflects on the history and present of corporate social responsibility and argues that CSR advocates must go deeper, pushing for a redesign of the corporation itself. This piece will be of interest to all those seeking to make a more equitable and sustainable mode of business.

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5th PRME NE Conference March 26-27 “Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Business Education and Practice”

Jennifer Hancock / December 28, 2019

Major conference on advancing business education and practice with the SDGs. Michael Pirson is facilitating a dialogue session which will be facilitated simultaneously at many Universities throughout the NE, et al.

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The Eighth Subsistence Marketplaces Conference: Symbiotic Academic-Social Enterprise in Subsistence Marketplaces

Jennifer Hancock / December 12, 2019

The conference on subsistence marketplace looks at issues related to consumer and entrepreneur communities living at very low income levels. Typical management theories don’t apply directly here. In this sense it is similar to the premise of humanistic management.

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Announcing the Aspen Institute 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award Winners

Jennifer Hancock / December 12, 2019

The ten 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award-winning courses shine a bright light on the future of management education—and paint an aspirational picture for the future of business practices.