URDG758 Workshop was successfully held in Hochiminh City
On 31 August 2010, Hoang Nghiep Training and Consulting in cooperation with IFC, eBusiness School International (Ireland) held successfully the the Workshop for over 50 banking professionals from 16 banks around Vietnam.
On the seminar, Mr Vincent O’Brien has introduced about the ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees – URDG758 that was effective from 1 July 2010 on global scale.
Mr. Vincent O’Brien – the facilitator of the Workshop – is a highly experienced practitioner of International Trade Finance being a long standing member of …

Global Institute of Strategic Management, USA signs collaboration agreement with Mekong Delta Training Corporation, Vietnam
On 7 July 2010, Dr. Ben Lee, President of Global Institute of Strategic Management, USA, and, Martin Nguyen, Director, Mekong Delta Training Corporation, Vietnam, enter into a memorandum of understanding for GISM recognition of the Mekong Delta Training Corporation (MDTC) Mini-MBA program, and the award of the GISM certificate for training completion. The non-credit GISM Mini MBA training program provides management professionals and high-level administrators, a solid combination of …

Dr. Ben Lee Honored Asia’s Best B-School Awards Nurturer of Talent Award
We are pleased to announce, Dr. Ben Lee, Founder and President of EDS Business School has been the recipient of Asia’s Best B-School Award in the individual category, Nurturer of Talent Award, at the Suntec Convention Hall, Singapore on 23 July 2010.

( From left) Professor Soh Keng Lin, University Science Malaysia
(receiving the Best Professor in Operations Management)
Dr. Sununta Siengthai, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
(receiving the Best Professor in HRM)
Dr. Ben Lee, President and Founder, EDS …

How Are You Developing Future Leaders?
by Stew Friedman

“Your old road is rapidly aging,” Bob Dylan proclaimed to the powers that be in 1964. “Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand.” Recent experiences have left me thinking often of that now-iconic line over the past few days; in this post, I want to encourage you to think about whether you are either standing in the way or offering a hand to those coming after you.
In the last …

Ten Essentials for Getting Value from Values
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Many organizations have statements of mission and values. Unfortunately, most of them sound alike. Who could quibble with the importance of “respect” or “customer focus”? Values statements can seem like passive decoration for walls and the Web, easily ignored. And the words don’t really tell anyone what to do in any specific sense.
But that doesn’t mean that values don’t matter. In organizations that I call “supercorps” — companies that are innovative, profitable, and …

How to Translate Training into Results
Ron Ashkenas

Most everyone would agree that the training and development of managers is a critical component of success for organizations — especially if you believe that a stronger leadership team makes a competitive difference. Yet despite its importance, when times are tough management training and development budgets are among the first to be cut. More often than not the reason behind this apparent contradiction is the lack of a clear connection between such training and results. …

Sony’s Goalsetting and the Value of Zero
Andrew Winston

Though corporate green efforts have grown exponentially in the last decade, most initiatives fall woefully short of what’s necessary to meet the enormous sustainability challenges we face — from climate change to water shortages to poverty and social equity.
That’s why it’s so refreshing to see one large company, Sony, set a goal of zero environmental footprint by 2050. The company has dubbed this mission its “Road to Zero.”
Before diving into how Sony has approached its …

Sleeping on Airplanes and Other Keys to Corporate Success

Justin Fox
For the past five months, I’ve been working in an office in Watertown, Mass., while my family has continued to live in an apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I haven’t handled the separation, or the weekly commute, very well. I’m frequently flummoxed by the logistics, I’m too often distracted at work, my temporary lodgings in Cambridge are a complete mess, and I whine about the situation constantly. My wife …

Financial Innovation: Knowing Abuse When We See It
by Margaret Blair

(Editor’s note: This post forms part of the HBR Debate, “Finance: The Way Forward.”)
Financial innovation, like so many modern inventions, is a good thing when it is used properly and a bad thing when abused. The key, of course, is being able to determine what uses are abusive, and what are benign. We need to know what abuse looks like when we see it.
So far, much of the financial reform debate has focused on …

It’s Time to Focus Executive Development on Real Business Issues
by Trina Soske and Jay A. Conger

(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and Scott Snook. This week’s focus: leadership development.)
Over the last three decades, the resources and energy devoted to leadership …