List of Contributions

Chinese students can often want to have a personal relationship with the teacher. This can be time consuming, but if class size allows it, this provides a basis of trust from which the students gain confidence to speak in class - if what you are doing is teaching interactively. In addition, I often ...

The Oxford English Dictionary states that "cf." = confer, "compare" How I would interpret this is: The thing to be compared with the original is not the same as it, meaning that the comparison will throw some different light on the original. I hope this helps. Sharon Livesey email: ...

I find the HBS case studies to be interesting, but they tell as much about HBS as about the companies studied. (Whose story is it anyway?) If you don't believe me compare Shell in Nigeria by Lynn Paine and Shell in Nigeria by Anne Lawrence available at i-case.com. The latter takes the case ...

I have worked in corporate identity management (Shell- Brent Spar and Nigeria crises), corporate commitment to sustainable development, and corporate reporting. Articles are as follows: Livesey, S. M., & Kearins, K.(2002).Open and Caring Corporations? A Study of Sustainability Reports ...

I teach a similar group around this range of issues. I used to use Timm and DeTienne, Managerial Communication... but I found that the costs of all these textbooks add up and none has everything you need or want. Now I use a combination of Harvard Business School and other cases and the book ...