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The Crisis in Education : Practical, Cost-Effective Solutions

Friedman, Hershey H. - 2013

expanding early childhood education programs, changing the school calendar, and online learning …

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Online Learning as a Change Agent in Education

Friedman, Linda Weiser; Friedman, Hershey H. - 2014

view. The authors show how online learning is an important tool for achieving the goals of education that include …

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Worlds Collide : Exploring the Use of Social Media Technologies for Online Learning

Friedman, Linda Weiser; Friedman, Hershey H. - 2013

Models of distance education have evolved over decades, just in time to collide with modern pedagogies in which …

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How Virtuous is Your Firm? A Checklist

Friedman, Hershey H.; Friedman, Linda Weiser - 2013

Scholars are noting a change in the way business is being conducted. Many firms -- one scholar estimates the number at 15% -- are concerned about values rather than focusing exclusively on maximizing profits. This new kind of capitalism considers factors such as societal needs, quality, needs of...

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Is the Unidisciplinary College Major in Danger of Going the Way of Netscape, AOL, Myspace, Blockbuster, and the Blackberry?

Friedman, Hershey H.; Friedman, Linda Weiser; … - 2013

technology are converging. The rules of the education game are being changed by MOOCs, company-administered classes, and … certificate programs. A question being asked is why pay as much as $100,000 for an education when much -- if not all -- the … wrong way to go in the Knowledge and Internet age. In the paper, the authors assess unidisciplinary education, examine the …

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Does Growing the Number of Academic Departments Improve the Quality of Higher Education?

Friedman, Hershey H.; Friedman, Linda Weiser - 2018

One educator claims that the education system is useless for most students since it does not provide skills or make … ways to make higher education more valuable to employers and students. This paper demonstrates that reducing the number of …

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Machine Learning and Meaningful Careers : Increasing the Number of Women in STEM

Hoffman, Sarah; Friedman, Hershey H. - 2018

the literature, and demonstrate how numerous areas including health care, education, the military, environmental studies …

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Evaluating the Performance of College Presidents in the Age of Disruption and Corruption

Friedman, Hershey H.; Kass, Frimette - 2017

This paper discusses a paradigm for rating college presidents that stresses factors that provide long-term value such as vision, faculty engagement, building a learning organization, providing ethical leadership, increasing student satisfaction, and enhancing the reputation of the organization....

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Is Your Organization Run by the Right Kind of Leader? An Overview of the Different Leadership Styles

Friedman, Hershey H. - 2016

The world today is experiencing a leadership crisis. One thing is evident: The leadership style that worked in the industrial economy will not work today where integrity and creativity are crucial if an organization is to thrive. We live in an information/knowledge economy defined by...

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Learning Leadership from Donald Trump : What Not to Do

Friedman, Hershey H.; Fireworker, Robert - 2019

Donald Trump has served as President of the United States for more than two years. His performance in office has provided many valuable lessons about leadership, especially about what not to do. This paper offers a partial list of leadership principles one can deduce from observing his...

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