Our very own Dr. Ted Sun, Dean of the Business School, is shown speaking with TV Interviewers concerning the upcoming US presidential election and the impact of body language.You can view the interview at the following link and see one of our own faculty in action !!!!
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Following up on the successful SMC Symposium held in Vienna on 11th and 12th September, a video download is now available to give you an impression.
Link here to the SMC site, take a look and enjoy!
As we are aware, each and every student is provided an SMC student email address in the form firstname.lastname@student.swissmc.ch upon being accepted into an SMC program. Starting today students are requested to use this email address as the primary address in all communication with both professors and administrative staff at the SMC. That is,
1. SMC Student eMails are now the primary eMail of contact and the only official eMail address for student / SMC communications.
2. All assignments, official requests and professor/staff communications are to be submitted using the SMC student eMail adressess. This is for authentication and tracking reasons by the SMC.
3. Personal eMail addresses will be removed from the SMC student profile pages. This is for student privacy reasons.
4. Students are expected to log-on to the system each day to check their student eMail accounts.Again, log-in to the student eMail system can be done at: https://www.smcdl.com/webmail/src/login.php
The student council supports the SMC administration in this initiative in order to reduce the confusion or misunderstanding that may result between students and professors/staff in the submitting of assignments or in communication with the administration. Please note that it is each student’s responsibility to check their SMC student email account on a timely basis for communication from either professors or staff of the SMC.
The Student Council
Academics
- Dean of the Business School – Swiss Management Center
- Professor of Organizational Leadership – Swiss Management Center
Spotlight
It is with great pleasure that the SMC Student Council introduces Dr. Sun as the first professor highlighted in a new series entitled, “Professor Spotlights”.
As an executive development expert, Dr. Sun has taught many leaders the principles that have helped to reshape their lives. His work has been featured on ABC, NBC, Entrepreneur Magazine, Harvard Update, LA Times and the Chicago Tribune to name only a few. In addition to being the Faculty of the Year in 2006, Dr. Sun has also presented his work at the 2007 Global Conference on Business and Economics in Rome and the 2008 National Conference on Diversity, Race and Learning. His new book “Survival Tactics” is available at the SMC Bookstore and through Amazon.
Dr. Sun was born in Shanghai, China and moved to the U.S. at the age of ten. He attended Ohio State University where he graduated with honors with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. He furthered his academic career with an MBA also from OSU. Professor Sun holds a Doctorate in Management in Organizational Leadership and is presently completing a second doctorate in Organizational Psychology. Professor Sun lives by the motto: “Enabling systemic shifts in thought around the world and leading humanity towards evolution from within”.
We are grateful to have Dr. Sun as the Dean of the Business School and we look forward to tremendous growth, energy and success under his leadership. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Sun to the SMC. All students are encouraged to contact Dr. Sun with their own welcome message at t.sun@swissmc.ch .
Fellow Students,
As you are aware the Vienna Symposium recently took place. It was a truly wonderful experience to meet everyone from the faculty, administration, guest speakers and naturally fellow students. Please find many photos below including some from: the Belvedere Palace grounds where SMC is located, the first day events, evening out together along with the second day events. Of course, it all ended too soon but we look forward to even better Symposiums in the years to come. The word on the street is that next year’s will be in the new facility in Zurich. I know we all anticipate meeting up again for more intellectually stimulating moments and fun times together. Enjoy the photos, Just click to enlarge !
You can enjoy all the photos on this page, 170 more photos – YIKES !
The SMC Working Paper Series is a free resource available to our student community and to other Universities and Institutions worldwide, where the high level of our intellectual contributions produced within our educational programs, can be made available to global communities. Since the successful launch of this initiative in 2007, a number of students have been inspired and have taken the step to publish their work.
SMC is pleased to announce that the SMC Working Paper Series is now an official publication, with its own ISSN number and registration in the Swiss National Library. The registration of the ISSN code is retroactively applicable to all issues as of November 2007.
The work of those SMC students who publish an SMC Working Paper will now be regarded as a formally recognized piece of research work.
The details are as follows:
Title: SMC Working Paper Series
ISSN 1662-761X
You can look up the source reference for yourself in the Swiss National Library. Enter “Swiss Management Center” into the quick search and the entry will appear.
Link here to the existing publications which are being registered and make up this series.
Those SMC students interested to contribute to the SMC Working Paper Series can feel free to contact Mark Esposito, Dean of Research at SMC, at the following address:
The first SMC Symposium took place in Vienna on 11th and 12th September.
The event featured a mix of subjects and presentations including keynote speakers Alvin Rabushka and José Piñera.
The SMC Student Council would like to express special thanks to director of SMC, Michael Schmelczer, the SMC faculty team and the keynote speakers for their contribution to making this such a memorable and enjoyable learning experience, bringing together a unique body of learning from around the globe!
The value was not only in the sessions as their value stands by themselves. It was also the opportunity to meet face to face with the faculty and staff and to be able to establish a more personal relationship with them and fellow students.
Link here to the SMC Symposium website.
A more detailed overview looking back at the event, including photographs, will follow soon.
If you wish to join the SMC Linked in group you must do the following.
1. Create a profile on Linked In if you do not already have one.
2. After creating the profile, search someone who is already in the group, such as myself, Jeffrey Henderson. My public profile is located at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyhenderson
3. Click on the SMC group icon found in my profile and send a request to join.
4. Send an email to me at: jeffrey.henderson@student.swissmc.ch letting me know that you have sent a request to join. I wil only authorize those people who send me an email since we are receiving many request to join from none SMC people. We wish to keep this group only for SMC students and alumni.
5. You can place a Linked In button in your SMC biography by including the html that Linked In provides under the “Edit My Profile” section of your Linked In profile (there are many styles to chose from), as shown below:
Thanks it !
We are proud to invite you to the SMC Symposium on Sustainability for SMC Members and special invitees.
Sustainability is a concept that touches all aspects of personal and professional life. In fact, the health of the planet is directly tied to the way in which business people view sustainability issues and their place within the discourse of Social Issues in Management.
Link here to the SMC Symposium website.
We hope to see you there!
Some of you might not know the name of Mary Parkere Follett. However, she is a woman who lived during the turn of the last century who is now recognized as a pioneer of many of today’s avant garde management principles. Both Peter Drucker and Gary Hamel give her praise as being a foundational contributor to management thinking. Take a moment to investigate her research and writings and it will provide you with a more rounded appreciation of the world of management and its history. Her biography from the Follett Foundation is is reprinted below:
Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was a visionary and pioneering individual in the field of human relations, democratic organization, and management. Born in Massachusetts, in 1892 she entered what would become Radcliffe College, the women’s branch of Harvard. She graduated from Radcliffe summa cum laude in 1898. Follett’s intensive research into government while at Radcliffe was later published in her first book, The Speaker of the House of Representatives (1909), which was lauded (by, among others, Theodore Roosevelt) as the best study of this office of government ever done.
From 1900 to 1908, Follett devoted herself to social work in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. In 1908 she became chairperson of the Women’s Municipal League’s Committee on Extended Use of School Buildings, and in 1911 she helped open the East Boston High School Social Center. She was instrumental in the formation of many other social centers throughout Boston. Her experience in this area helped to transform her view of democracy. Follett later served as a member of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Board, and in 1917 she became vice-president of the National Community Center Association. By this time, however, she had turned most of her attention to writing for a wider public regarding what the social centers had taught her about democracy. In 1918 she published her second book, The New State, which is concerned with the human nature of government, democracy, and the role of local community.
In 1924, Follett published her third book, Creative Experience. This work addresses more directly the creative interaction of people through an on-going process of circular response. From this point until her death in 1933, Follett found her most enthusiastic audience in the world of business. Admiration and respect for her work grew on both sides of the Atlantic, and she became a leading management consultant. (Peter Drucker, who discovered Follett’s work in the 1950′s, is said to have referred to Follett as his “guru.”) Her various papers and speeches in this context were published in 1942 by Henry Metcalf and Lionel Urwick in a book called Dynamic Administration. Another celebration of her work in this context is Mary Parker Follett: Prophet of Management, which was edited by Pauline Graham and published in 1995. In 1998, The New State was re-issued by Penn State Press, with a preface by Benjamin Barber. A biography of Follett, written by Joan Tonn, a professor at the College of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston, is expected to be published next year.
Follett is increasingly recognized today as the originator, at least in the 20th century, of ideas that are today commonly accepted as “cutting edge” in organizational theory and public administration. These include the idea of seeking “win-win” solutions, community-based solutions, strength in human diversity, situational leadership, and a focus on process. However, just as her ideas were advanced for her own time, and advanced when people wrote about them decades after her death, they remain too often unrealized. We recognize them as an inspirational and guiding ideal for us today, at the beginning of the 21st century. It is the intention and the design of the Foundation’s programs to continue the effort to bridge ideal and practice in a continuous process that gives rise to true freedom.
Source: Follett Foundation
