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Embracing Change: We Get by with a Lot of Help from Our Friends

Embracing Change: We Get by with a Lot of Help from Our Friends

Embracing change: We get by with a lot of help from our friends
James P.Walsh

The life of a business school faculty member is at once more exacting and less defined than ever before. When Art Brief, Dick Woodman, and I were talking about how to organize our doctoral consortium, we decided that our new faculty colleagues might benefit from a discussion of possible changes in our institutional environment and what they might mean for career development. And so we invited a university president and provost, as well as a business school dean, associate dean, and department chair to address these issues for them. In truth, we were as interested in all of this ...

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