They identified education as a profession where labor productivity was not amenable to improvement through technological advance.
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Being a bartender, as a profession, has gained quite a bit of popularity in the past few years.
But as a profession, we sometimes have a tendency to chase the new at the expense of the proven.
"Medicine as a profession has survived a long time and with luck this is a temporary blip, " he said.
Some mature democracies, especially Britain and America, are seeing a new phenomenon: the rise of politics itself as a profession.
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He added that the economic slowdown should be used as an opportunity to promote teaching as a profession and attract top graduates.
"Creating a strong research foundation of what chaplains do in the clinical setting will mark the coming of age of health-care chaplaincy as a profession, " he says.
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My colleagues and I solve security puzzles as a profession.
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Proposing the motion which called for a battle plan, he said: "We are accountable as a profession, but we have the right to be judged by a system which is fair".
The HBS students wanted to create a voluntary pledge that would deliberately echo the Hippocratic Oath as a step towards presenting management as a profession with its own code of conduct.
Roughly the reverse of Mr Mintzberg's complaint is the criticism advanced by Rakesh Khurana of Harvard Business School, who is writing a book on why management has failed to develop as a profession.
As a member of the media and purveyor of career advice, some of the top questions I receive by email and in person are how I got to where I am today and whether I recommend pursuing journalism as a profession.
"This struck a chord with me - we're delighted that someone in such a position can stand up in public and support the line that we as a profession have consistently taken ever since league tables were introduced, " said Mr Spear.
Thus, I fear the end result of allowing third-party financing to flourish is a slow but steady shift away from the traditional understanding of law as a profession toward a conception of law as just another money-making venture, where the investors inevitably call the shots.
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Whether this is a proper focus for business education is being openly challenged by thought leaders such as Harvard's Clayton Christensen, whose books on innovation include The Innovator's Dilemma, and Rakesh Khurana, also of Harvard, author of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.
Shows about buying, selling and flipping houses proliferated on cable television alongside the housing boom earlier this past decade, which helped popularize real estate as a lucrative profession.
Mr Gawande, who is a surgeon by profession as well as a contributor to the New Yorker, where he has written extensively about health care, thinks that his own profession is ripe for a checklist revolution.
While the constitution gives Mr. Buell the right to express his opinions, as a teacher, he also has obligations to his students, the public and the education profession as a whole.
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In May 1987 he was given the Cyril Bennett Award by the Royal Television Society as a personal salute from the television profession, with judges describing him as a man who always dared and pushed out boundaries.
Sullivan was not associated with othercompliance officers in a firm where all were subject to self regulation as members of a common profession.
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He confirmed his profession as a soldier and said he preferred to speak in Kinyarwanda.
AMA. The profession as a whole is increasingly fragmented among specialised associations and between practitioners and academics.
As a result, the profession has no clue as to what is the right thing to do.
As well as acting as a voice for the profession, a royal college could oversee standards and training, he said.
But the assumptions underpinning their approach have fallen out of favour recently - among economic commentators, if not the profession as a whole.
But doctors are plagued by avoidable failure and the medical profession as a whole has no reliable mechanism for learning from its mistakes.
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