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...“The only way to create good jobs is operational excellence in businesses, and operational excellence is driven by investment in people,” says Zeynep Ton, an MIT Sloan School of Management professor....
...● Stonehage Fleming has hired Mark Sloan as a director in the equity management team at the $43bn multifamily office. Mr Sloan previously worked for Investec AM....
...Comment by Sloan on Claire Jone’s opinion piece on the eurozone economy, Monetary union comes at a price for Europe: “The only hope for Italy and the euro currency is more integration, deposit insurance...
...Open access It is this stand-off that led Mr Freeman to launch the accelerated access review last year, led by Sir Hugh Taylor, formerly a senior civil servant at the health department....
...Theory X, peddled by Frederick Taylor, is that workers need to be measured and watched; Theory Y says workers are creative free spirits that get there on their own....
...Robin Hindle Fisher, Sloan Fellow, London Business School, UK...
...“So far the results are promising,” says Mr Sloan....
...Taylor, Peter Drucker and Douglas McGregor? The answer is very little....
...Mr Davis was selected after a lengthy search by headhunters Taylor Bennett....
...David Schmittlein, dean of MIT Sloan, is one US business school boss who has always valued degree plurality....
...A recent MIT Sloan Management Review survey found that 60 per cent of organisations collect more data than they can effectively use....
...Sloan’s General Motors and finally reached perfection in Toyota City, the vast complex of manufacturing and assembly plants east of Nagoya....
...And for schools such as MIT Sloan, which specialises in the needs of technology-based firms, many of the managers and corporations are a self-selecting group....
...Frederick Taylor translated the division of labour into what he called “scientific management”. Everyone would be assigned a discrete task whose performance could be precisely measured....
...[The fall of] Bear Stearns was additional rain and now the Lehman folks are late into a tight market,” says Rob Sloan of Egon Zehnder....
...The MFin was conceived as long ago as 2005, according to Simon Taylor, who quit the City to become programme director in April 2007....
...She says that John Taylor – then the department’s undersecretary of international affairs – made a priority of thoughtful, in-depth policy analysis....
...Sloan’s General Motors in the 1940s, producing The Concept of the Corporation (1945)....
...Whether it is Frederick Taylor or Alfred Sloan, Abraham Maslow or Douglas McGregor, Peter Drucker or Michael Porter, almost all those who have formed our thoughts on management are from the US, or have spent...
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