by david allan van nostrand | Feb 14, 2022 | Items in the News, Teaching
Two weeks ago I published the course outline distributed to MBA students at the University of the West Indies Graduate School of Business. You can take the 10 question true or false part of the final exam now, click here to go back for a refresher, or click here to...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 7, 2022 | Human Behavior, Teaching
If you read last week’s article, you might be ready to take the multiple choice section of final exam. If you missed it or if you want to better your chances of passing the exam, please click here to go back and read or reread the course summary. Otherwise, start here...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 31, 2022 | Human Behavior, Teaching, Using Information
Some time in this century, a few of the world’s leading MBA programs realized students were being taught plenty about business but nothing about human behavior. They knew a growing body of evidence was showing clear linkages between management practices based in the...
by david allan van nostrand | May 3, 2021 | How to tell good research from bad, Teaching, Using Information
Lake Wobegone is the fictitious central Minnesota town “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” It was the setting of a long-running radio variety show, several novels, and a feature film. The radio show A...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 21, 2020 | Human Behavior, Teaching, Using Information
When I created a special course for MBAs, I began by giving my students a whirlwind tour of humans since Alley Oop*, following the arc of human history in Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. Then I introduced them to many strange people they...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 6, 2020 | Human Behavior, Teaching
Headed off to the Trojan war, Odysseus asked a trusted friend to stay behind in Ithaca and watch over the upbringing of his son, Telemachus. Odysseus chose the best person he knew to prepare his heir to handle family responsibilities while he was away. It was a good...
