The story of stuff

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

A nice introductory teaching tool. It’s really a well-done, 20 minute-online video about how (parts) of capitalism works

flocking in a leaderless group

Three simple rules will make flocking work: alignment, separation, and cohesion.

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Flocking
click on "Run Flocking in your browser"

methods of cheating, courtesy of YouTube

The video-sharing site has clips showing students various ways to sneak in the answers to tests

Star Tribune May 24, 2008 E2
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/19210799.html?page=1&c=y

trauma and recovery

After the earthquake in China on May 12, there is an urgent need for helping the survivors to recover physiologically and psychologically. The following sites provide some resource on trauma and recovery.

www.trauma-pages.com - Dave Baldwin has pulled together a lot of resources here.

www.traumahealing.com - Peter Levine's research assisted post-Tsunami in mitigating the effects of the disaster ... a team also went to Rwanda and New Orleans. There is a rapid treatment model that is cross-cultural as it is not reliant primarily on "talking through" the reaction.

The USASBE syllabus exchange

a helpful resource for faculty creating or modifying courses in entrepreneurship, the site is updated twice per year.

http://www.usasbe.org/knowledge/syllabus/syllabus/index.htm

There are several syllabi on creativity. e.g. Syracuse University
"Imagination, Entrepreneurship and Creative Business Problem Solving"

Bangalore Tiger

How Indian Tech Upstart Wipro Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Competition
by Steve Hamm
Take-home message: Wipro, the Wal-Mart in IT consulting industry.
link at Wikipedia

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

“a clumsy or inelegant — yet surprisingly effective — solution to a problem.”
See a book review at the New York Times on this term Kluge.

MIT's OpenCourseWare

Many of you may have heard about the MIT's OpenCourseWare. It is a free and open educational resource for students and self-learners around the world. Basically, you can download all the materials (ppt slides, syllabus, assignments, cases, etc.) of all kinds of classes that you are interested in. If you are motivated to learn by yourself, this is a good place to start.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm

See also: opencourseware consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org

Fair Trade movement

FINE members are:
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International,
International Fair Trade Association,
Network of European Worldshops,
European Fair Trade Association.

See John Oliver's talk about Fair Trade

Anne-Wil Harzing's website

http://www.harzing.com/
Amazing website on international and cross-culture management.
Publish or Perish
Journal quality list
citation analysis

puzzles.com

A nice collection of puzzles for a team to solve. Ideal for ice-breaking for a new class. Getting to know your team members in a quick way.

Educators' corner for Entrepreneurship

hosted by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program
video clips, syllabi, and other materials for teaching entrepreneurship

http://edcorner.stanford.edu/index.html

Schwartz's country indices, culture related research

Schwartz Value Survey (SVS)
Hofstede's VSM-94
A voluntary association of cross-cultural researchers

see http://crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/

zotero.org

A free but powerful tool to organize your research projects, notes, blogs, pictures, etc.
Good for reseachers, students, and teachers.
A unique feature is that zotero does not organize files in the traditional folder/subfolder hierarchical structure. It allows a file to appear in multiple libraries without physically duplicating the file multiple times.
You can highlight sentences as you can do in MS OneNote.
Highly integrated with online browsing and journal sites.
Current version is zotero 1.0

Economist.com country briefings

Useful information for each country you are interested in.

http://www.economist.com/countries/

There is also a city briefing page at economist.com

Turnover rates soar in China

As Pay Levels Rise, So Do Turnover Rates: The Challenges of Managing People in China

Everyone is a millionaire, but they are still poor

A story from Zimbabwe
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/256.0/popup/index.php?cl=7175713

The World Turned Upside Down

A refreshing perspective to look at the world:

See http://www.newint.com.au/shop/world-turned-upside-down-1306.htm

teamwork b/w the auditor and the board

An independent report requested by the U.S. Department of Justice shows: auditor KPMG either initiated accounting fraud at New Century Financial Corp or stood idly by as the failed subprime mortgage lender committed fraud in 2005 and 2006.

Still remember Enron, WorldCom and Arthur Andersen? This is gonna be a new case for business ethics teaching: You need to rotate the auditor more often otherwise the auditor becomes part of their team.

cross-culture management, maybe ?

Conflicts in Tibet are hitting headlines for the past several weeks. I hope there is a peaceful way that people can work this out. Something related to cross-culture management? Photos courtesy of noso at http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=200803&postID=41122

Blog is created

I am kind of slow in catching up new technologies. Finally, my teaching blog is now ready to go. This is gonna be an online notebook for resources related to teaching management courses.