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Teaching Human Centered Management to Engineering Students: A Personal Account

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It was 1991 and the highly respected professor of the course organizational behavior,1 psychologist SergioMaltes, unexpectedly passed away. I was asked to teach his course because of my PhD in Management from MIT Sloan School of Management. It was a dare decision because at that time I was teaching two very different courses: strategy and finance. I had made considerable work in strategy and had written two books and many papers with Professor Arnoldo Hax from MIT.2 And finance was the subject of my PhD thesis, which gave rise to a well-known paper on asymmetric information co-authored with Professor Stewart Myers, also from MIT.3

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Majluf, N. (2016). Teaching Human Centered Management to Engineering Students: A Personal Account. In: Human Centered Management in Executive Education. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137555410_10

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