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A great book from the management Guru Gary Hamel.

You can view a video of Hamel speaking about this book Here!

Hamel, a well-known business thinker and author (Leading the Revolution), advocates that dogma be rooted out and a new future be imagined and invented. To aid managers and leaders on this mission, Hamel offers case studies and measured analysis of management innovators like Google and W.L. Gore (makers of Gore-Tex), then lists lessons that can be drawn from them. He doesn’t gloss over how difficult it will be to reinvent management, comparing the new and needed shift in thinking to Darwin’s abandoning creationist traditions and physicists who had to look beyond Newton’s clockwork laws to discover quantum mechanics. The book serves primarily as an invitation to shed age-old systems and processes and think differently. The content will likely appeal to managers accustomed to b-school textbooks and tired of gimmicky business evangelism.

You can purchase Hamel’s book at the SMC bookstore Here!

As some of you may know, our very own Professor Llyod Williams is also a professor at Global 21. If you do not know Global 21 it is an online graduate school backed by an international network of research intensive universities including: Lund, Korea, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Melbourne, Queensland, Singapore, NUS, Fudan, Virginia, Delhi, Hong Kong amongst others.

Professor Williams was recently honoured by being presented an award for Outstanding Professor along with an award for Excellence in Online Teaching for 2008.

You can read the announcement on the Global 21 website here.

On behalf of all the students at SMC we would like to congratulate Professor Williams on a job well done and on his committment to his students and advancing the professionalism of online studies. We wish him even more success in the future.

Fellow Students:

The SSRN has over 175,000 articles in the social sciences. That means business articles too.  Also, 90% of them are free. So next time you are doing research have a look at their site. You are sure to find articles on your topic. All very recent as well.

You can find their site at www.SSRN.com 

From Their Website: 

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. We have received several awards for our web site.Each of SSRN’s networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. We now have hundreds of journals, publishers, and institutions that provide working papers for distribution through eLibrary and abstracts for publication in SSRN’s electronic journals.The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 179,400 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 143,400 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of fee based Publishing.

Dear Students:

The 2nd International Online Conference on Business and Management (IOCBM 2008) will be held in August 2008. (http://www.ala.ir/iocbm2008)

We very much like to invite you to take part in this International Conference. This two-day conference (August 15 and 16, 2008) will provide a forum for academics, practitioners, consultants and doctoral students to debate current international issues and challenges in the broad area of business and management.

Besides, selected papers of this conference, depending on their quality, will be considered for publication in several journals including:

Journal of European Industrial Training (ISI Journal)
Journal of Systems and Information Technology (Emerald Publishers)
Lex ET Scientia

To make this International Conference an historic event, conference organizers invite practitioners and academic researchers to submit papers for presentation. Papers are requested to elaborate on the Conference Themes.

A 300-word abstract, in MS-WORD format, (single-spaced, A4 size, margin of 2.5 cm on all sides, font Times New Roman, title 14pts bold, heading 12pts bold & text 12pts), should be submitted for review by the Conference Advisory Board.

Please notice that submitted abstracts will be judged by the reviewers and conference referees on a first in – first out basis; that is, as soon as you submit your abstract, you can expect to receive the complete review result within the next 2 weeks.

So submit your abstract now, and put enough time for working on your approved final paper. The deadline for abstract submission is: April 05, 2008.

The conference registration fee is 150 USD per person. However, you can benefit from the early Reduced Registration Fee if you register for the conference before March 15, 2008. All participants who register for IOCBM 2008 before March 15, 2008, can pay for the reduced Early Registration Fee of only 100 USD.

Dear Fellow Students, Professors and Administrators,

Of first priority we wish to thank the SMC administration and its directors for all the great help, diligence and focus that they have shown to the students, the programs and the student council through 2007. The course of study at SMC is only made better through their continued support and dedication and we all remain very grateful for this.

Secondly, and as important, a great thanks go out to all the professors who have given their time and energy to all the students in all the programs. It goes without saying that without the dedication of the professors none of this would be possible, so a great wish of thanks to each and everyone for their special knowledge and love of teaching.

For those mentioned above and to all our fellow students please accept the student council’s wishes on a happy and healthy New Year. We hope that it brings everyone the best of success personally, professionally and of course academically. The student council is confident that along with the SMC administration and our professors 2008 will bring interesting opportunities for growth and continued success building on the fantastic progress in 2007 which saw new professors, many new students, new graduates, the new student council blog site, new student council members, and ACBSP accreditation just to name a few.

For students 2008 will mean more work, more assignments, more papers and more studying. But, it will also mean new study partners, new professors, new challenges and new knowledge. Keep up the commitment and strong work ethic and 2008 is sure to be another stellar year for the SMC as we all make it happen.

Best of Wishes,

The Student Council