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The website for Cable News 14 in North Carolina allowed registered users to submit weather related announcements for ., in order to alert local residents of school or business closures. The submissions are posted to the onscreen crawl during the newscast as a public service and periodically rotated. Think Web for television. To prevent abuse, such as users posting defamatory messages, station personnel must first review the submission’s content before it’s allowed to air. Afterward, users are free to edit the content to reflect any changes in status. For example, if a business or a school reopened or is to. | XKORN FERRY INSTITUTE The business school dean redefined New leadership requirements from the front lines of change in academia By Ken Kring and Stuart Kaplan October 2011 The business school deans who will thrive in the coming years will have a different leadership profile from their predecessors one that emphasizes strategic skills enterprise management innovation and people and relationship effectiveness. All these will be required to forge ahead in business education in the organizationally flat world of academia and during a time of flat enrollment. Recent business school dean appointments indicate that university presidents provosts and search committees sense that they need a new type of leadership for business schools one that emphasizes CEO-style breadth and organizational expertise over more narrow academic mastery. Indeed the forces shaping business education have changed dramatically and quickly and the shifts are rapidly redefining the dean leadership profile. Think of some of the questions business schools are asking suggests Daniel Levinthal who chairs the management department and served on the most recent dean search committee at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Do we build a campus in India How do we manage client programs in executive education How do we persuade faculty to consider a particular curriculum innovation Business schools must innovate refocus and restructure or risk falling behind their academic competitors. Just like private enterprise they are undergoing a fundamental transformation in response to changing student buyer values the Internet globalization shifting demographics and unprecedented economic pressures. As a result business schools are hungry for alternatives to the traditional dean candidates who historically possessed deep backgrounds in core areas such as finance or economics and undertook a more straightforward mandate. The appetite for a more strategic and integrative dean has been evident in the