Academic health centres: managing the transition from good to great

Managing University - Industry Research Centres : Five Principles of Good Practice

This document reports the results of a multi-case study of university-industry research centres at a research-intensive UK university. It identifies a series of management principles that enable successful collaboration between universities and firms. The analysis is based on information gathered during interviews with 25 individuals involved in four centres, including representatives from indu...

Moving your board from good to great.

confront the rapid, transformational changes under way in health care. They must keep their organizations focused on their mission to meet community health needs, encourage collaboration and generative thinking with internal and external partners, and engage in governance practices that foster disciplined oversight and decision-making processes. A benchmarked, practiced and disciplined board pr...

Good to Great , or Just Good ?

Executive Overview Good to Great has been on BusinessWeek’s best-seller list since its October 2001 release. In Good to Great, author Jim Collins identified a set of 11 firms as great, then used them to derive five management principles he believed led to “sustained great results.” We contend that due to two fatal errors, Good to Great provides no evidence that applying the five principles to o...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Managing mission tensions in academic health centers.