The corporate university, which went live in April 2010, uses online classes and simulation exercises.
Should companies go back to the 1980s and build a corporate university again?
"Companies realize that building knowledge-based capabilities is critical for the future, " says Sue Todd, president of training consulting company Corporate University Xchange, whose clients include Caterpillar Inc.
Westinghouse Electric Co. has invested "tens of millions" of dollars in a corporate university designed to train new and current employees, says Jim Ice, director of talent management.
The inventively named Hamburger U has maintained a steady course of training since its formation, and Crotonville, launched in 1956, is the oldest corporate university in the nation.
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Ultimately, I shared this equation with my top 80 leaders in the company and we started teaching equations on Anxiety, Disappointment, Happiness, and Authenticity in our corporate university.
Both of these granddaddies of the corporate university movement were successful, in part, because they focused so exclusively and aggressively on the human resource needs of their own companies and industries.
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Institutions in the entertainment and technology fields get the most attention Apple University and Pixar University but there are examples outside of those fields that show the breadth of the appeal of the corporate university, such as Deloitte University and General Motors Institute.
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Network pirates have hijacked servers on corporate and university networks as storage spaces for illicitly trading files.
Espen Eckbo, founding director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Dartmouth University's Tuck School of Business, says the tricky issue going forward is dealing with the corporate governance structure surrounding executives' compensation packages.
K. Prahalad, the Indian-born professor of corporate strategy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
HP's investigation "chills director oversight, " says Charles Elson, director of the Center of Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.
The group is not rated on how many papers it produced, a metric used by some university and corporate labs.
People will take a university or corporate campus and use the price signal of a specific utility to optimize generation internally.
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Naming Thomsen would "send a powerful signal that the chairman wants continuity, " says Joel Seligman, a professor of corporate law at Washington University's School of Law.
Their startup, called BrassRing, would go after the job-recruiting market by hosting career fairs, running Internet job boards and developing software for corporate personnel departments and university career-placement offices.
"This judge understands the end game that both sides are pursuing, " says Charles Elson, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.
Paying top executives mostly in restricted stock would force CEOs to "ride it up and down, " says Charles Elson, director of the Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.
Addressing a conference of corporate directors at Stanford University's Law School, Mr. Greifeld said Nasdaq had tested its systems extensively before the May 18 IPO, simulating higher trading volumes than actually occurred.
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"It's terrible business ethics to be lying and then just get people to sign a contract, especially if English isn't their first language, " says Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota.
"You have a much more diverse workforce today, and that kind of entertaining is viewed as nongermane to the client relationship, " said Charles Elson, Director, John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.
As a result, field trials with these plants are 10 to 20 times as expensive as experiments with virtually identical plants modified with less precise, conventional techniques, so only a minuscule fraction of potentially important plants developed in university and corporate laboratories ever make it into field trials.
He also teaches corporate reorganization at Harvard and University of Michigan law schools.
Jeremy Moon is the director of the International Center for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School, in England.
He never hid his brashness, teaching a course at Columbia University called "Corporate Raiding--The Art of War, " and was one of the inspirations for the fictional Gordon Gekko character of the Wall Street movies.
University- or corporate-based projects are not.
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In the custom executive education sphere, Duke University's Duke Corporate Education, IMD of Switzerland and London Business School are ranked highly by the FT.
The Dreamliner mess "is a huge hit to the company, " says Richard Leblanc, who teaches law, corporate governance and ethics at York University's School of Administrative Studies in Toronto.
In the United States, Northwestern University's Kellogg and Duke University's Duke Corporate Education are also among the leaders in "open" and "custom" programs devised for the specific needs of companies.
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