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Brain-Based Learning: The Neurological Findings About the Human Brain that Every Teacher Should Know to be Effective

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to present the main neurological findings about the human brain that provide the basis for brain-based learning, and that represent a narrow field of cognitive science as a whole. The findings that are described were made primarily by neuroscientists who studied the...

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Fordism and Taylorism are responsible for the early success and recent decline of the U.S. motor vehicle industry

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

This paper identifies the ways in which the ideas of Fordism and Taylorism have been responsible for the success of the U.S. motor vehicle companies until 1955, and for their subsequent decline. On three occasions, the motor vehicle industry has changed the fundamental ideas on the process of...

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How career counseling, management coaching, and mentoring can assist in reducing today’s lack of ethics in business

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013

This paper discusses how career counseling, management coaching, and mentoring can assist in reducing today’s lack of ethics in business by orienting future corporate leaders not only to identifying their skills, making better career choices, and becoming more productive and satisfied in their...

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Designing Modern Equity Portfolios

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

This aim of this paper is to describe possible ways of investing in equity; choosing the right stocks(among small-cap, large-cap, value, growth, and foreign) using fundamental analysis, defining their appropriate mix in the portfolios according to the desired return-risk profiles based on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643613

Changes in governance, the market for corporate control, and the mechanisms for hostile takeovers in Continental Europe: The case of Arcelor?s takeover by Mittal Steel

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2012

This paper describes the changes in governance, the market for corporate control, and the mechanism for hostile takeovers that have occurred in the last decade in Continental Europe, using the hostile takeover of Arcelor by Mittal Steel to illustrate these changes.

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The Resource-Based Horizontal Acquisition Strategy of JBS

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2012

This paper examines the resource-based horizontal acquisition strategy of JBS. This strategy transformed a relatively small business that was founded in 1953 (comprising a butcher shop and small abattoir located in a small town in the interior of Brazil) into the world?s biggest meat producer by...

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Brain-Based Guided Experience Approach to Teaching Entrepreneurship Students the Practice of Innovation

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2012

This paper presents a new approach to coaching entrepreneurship students to practice innovation and to identify … innovation framework that was introduced by Verganti (2009) in Design-Driven Innovation. The cognitive perspective of creativity … explained by Weisberg (2006) in his book Creativity is used to show how the practice of innovation can be learned. The model …

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Review of the current knowledge of brain-/mind-based learning to present the optimum climate for, and the guided experience approach to teaching

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to review the current knowledge on brain-/mind-based learning, by drawing on the recent advances in cognitive science (particularly neuroscience) that have changed traditional education practices. The findings and theories that have influenced current understanding...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854648

Selecting and preparing personnel for China assignments

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2009

A method for selecting personnel for China assignments and preparing and helping them in adapting to the culture is presented. The purpose is to avoid the cost of failures in assignments that can range from $ 300 thousand to $ 1 million (Black & Gregersen, 1999). The proposed selection process...

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DESIGNING MATRIX ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK: LESSONS FROM THE P&G CASE

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate why companies adopted the matrix, what problems they had, the solutions for these problems based on Galbraith (2009) and other authors like Davis & Lawrence (1977), and the state of the art of matrix structure design today like the P&G front-back hybrid...

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