II just want to share this little peace of work about possible futures for the institution called: “Business Schools”. The name of the book is: Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow

Here you can access the ouvre

I’m very happy to had been attending classes with some of the chapter’s book authors.

Special mention to Steven Brown (who is my supervisor) and professor Jones who is the first real philosopher of management that I know.

Anyway, enjoy the book. It is a fresh and lucid book. But be careful, becose could be dangerous for some more traditional minds…

In peace

An interesting work of professor Jones.

What do you think about it?

This is a little post about a recently speech that gave Robert J. Zimmer At Columbia University in October 21, 2009.

The name of the conference: “What Is Academic Freedom for?”.

my 3 cents…

Nowadays and more than ever, academic freedom is at the central debate of our society. We have to be reflexive about its implications for research freedom and, using Zimmer words: “Universities are institutions with a long history and the prospects for a very long future. It is essential to preserve their value, their capacity for inquiry, discovery, and education over time, which will inevitably far outlast any particular political issue of the day, no matter how important it is”.

Discussions will be often difficult and sometimes we can even think that we are loosing too energy or time talking about our differences. But preserving the freedom will always be a struggle. It was and I is goin to be!.

I invite you to read this words here.

Any comments?

One of my frends send me this piece of work from Paul Krugman. I really agree with this economist about the historical development of this activity.

The paper is here

I personally think that economy as other sciences builded a discourse aout what is an what is not the reality.  And I see the economy as a discipline that have too many certainties. It is looks like modernism have the limits in this field of study.

Read the paper. Your comments will be very wellcome.

I’m traying to process my own change experience here in Leicester…Too much information and too many information sources. A complex reality a multinational shock. A really brilliant and unique experience…

Everything is changing…I finished my time at UST.

Now I’m preparing for the big trip to Europe (UK) where I will study at University of Leicester PhD program.

I will be in Santiago of Chile until September 21th. Just to be with my family and celebrate some important chilean dates…

Hello my frends!.

This is a link of an interesting post from Adbusters.

I really think that economics indoctrination here in Chile is terrible…Chicago school of economy ideas are very deep inside of almost every chilean economy school and “serious” economist.
The most terrible is that management and business schools are also dominated for this monetarist ideas…No place for different ideas???.

If Harvard knows that there is need for diferent ideas. Why our lead business and economy schools don’t review the curriculums?.

Is there other ways to explain and understand our society?. Off course there is!!!.

Do Gregory Mankiw knows about the use of this book in chilean economy and business schools?.

I read a post from Navi Radjou about how big multinationals companies must change the R&D model for their laboratories that are developing products that will be market on countries like India, Brazil, and South Africa.

The link to the post is here.

He explained that these big organizations need to change from a pure technical vision of the R&D ( based on the technically-oriented engineers and scientists work) to a more cultural and development model based on a different type of professionals (Anthropologists and ethnographers and Development economists).

The argument sounds good but the post show any critical point about the capture of the value of the innovations that this companies are going to develop using this social science methodologies and methods.

At least this companies could develop more user oriented products and services. But for me this is not enough…

Why not to think about a research  methodology where this broader consumer base in emerging markets co-develop the services and products that they need and in the mean time the same research process could empower the base of the piramid?.

It’s clear that Web 2.0 could offer some ways to do it. For example, the same companies could offer access to the web and to web pages of social networks where this huge consumer base explain especifications and features of the future products and services.

Well, this are just some ideas…What do you think?

You can find hard data about social sciences publications and their impact.

This report was published at Time Higher Education 

HERE

Anyway, even if China is second on quantity with 413,326 papers between 2004-2008 (USA off course is at first place with 1,513,797 and UK is third with 401,649). The impact of chinese papers is lower (–38) versus +46 (USA) and +36 (UK).

Interesting numbers. isn’t it?

I read a Francis Fukuyama revision of Matthew B. Crawford book: “Shop Class as Soulcraft”.

This text was published on June 5 at the  New York Time.

I’m purchasing the Crawford book.

In the meantime, you can check this essay from Matthew B. Crawford. He published “The Case for Working With Your Hands” on May 21, 2009 at the New York Times.

And also the book presentation.

I will try to comment further about the book in the future.