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Building Financial Resilience Through Culture and Strategy: A Higher Education Case Study

Building Financial Resilience Through Culture and Strategy: A Higher Education Case Study

For years, finance in higher education has worked quietly behind the scenes—essential, but rarely seen as a force for change. Budgets got balanced, reports got filed, and institutions moved forward... slowly. But what happens when that model starts to crack? When rising costs outpace tuition revenue, and the math that once worked no longer adds up?

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87: Incentives for Innovation and Navigation with guest Roger L. Martin
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87: Incentives for Innovation and Navigation with guest Roger L. Martin

Roger Martin is Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management.  From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean.  Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.

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Beyond Statements: Leading with Authentic Dialogue
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Beyond Statements: Leading with Authentic Dialogue

In a polarized world, can schools facilitate understanding across divides? Hear how one courageous leader is doing just that, as Kalyan Balaven shares his community's journey through the Hamas-Israel conflict on The Net Assets Podcast.

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Being of Service with WACUBO’s Michael Clune and Lupe Valencia

Being of Service with WACUBO’s Michael Clune and Lupe Valencia

Howard Teibel sat down with Michael Clune and Lupe Valencia at the WACUBO annual conference to talk about service and what inspires them about being part of this extraordinary association committed to providing professional development and networking opportunities for business officers serving higher education in the West.

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NBOA CEO Jeff Shields on Navigating Independent School Challenges and the 2024 NBOA Annual Meeting

NBOA CEO Jeff Shields on Navigating Independent School Challenges and the 2024 NBOA Annual Meeting

This week, Jeff Shields, President and CEO at NBOA, joins Howard Teibel for a conversation on the future of independent schools ahead of the 2024 NBOA Annual Meeting & Business Solutions Showcase. They address the integration of telework in education, the sustainability of innovations post-pandemic, and the critical importance of community and collaboration in sparking transformative ideas.

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117: Manu Narayan brings artful insight to board leadership at Carnegie Mellon

117: Manu Narayan brings artful insight to board leadership at Carnegie Mellon

This week on Navigating Change we welcome Manu Narayan to the show. Manu is a truly renaissance man. He’s an actor of stage and screen. He’s an accomplished musician. He’s a writer and producer. And for all his professional creative talents, he joins us to discuss his role of Young Alumni trustee on the board of Carnegie Mellon University.

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95: Building Consequential Boards with Dr. Richard Chait
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95: Building Consequential Boards with Dr. Richard Chait

Over the past month, we've talked with university presidents, trustees, and faculty, cultivating a dialog around building strong relationships between institutional leadership. In the face of strained board-president relationships, diffused shared governance practices, challenging financial and regulatory environment, stresses on the balance of leadership abound.

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93: Governance — Authority, Accountability & Responsibility in Shared Governance with Dr. Stephen Fowl
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93: Governance — Authority, Accountability & Responsibility in Shared Governance with Dr. Stephen Fowl

This week on the show, Professor Steve Fowl joins us to share his insights as an academic leader on what makes shared governance work. As former chair of the faculty senate, Steve paints a picture of an environment in which there exists clear and effective collaboration between faculty, administration, and board leadership.

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229: Elevating Our Game at the NBOA 2022 Annual Meeting

229: Elevating Our Game at the NBOA 2022 Annual Meeting

This February, the preeminent meeting for independent school business operations professionals returns in person! This week, NBOA CEO Jeff Shields joins Howard Teibel to talk about the year past and the importance of reengaging your business officer community as we rebuild together.

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218: Preparing Your Team to Face the Unnamed Disruptors with Guest Mike Gower

218: Preparing Your Team to Face the Unnamed Disruptors with Guest Mike Gower

This week on Navigating Change, Mike Gower joins Howard Teibel to talk about the questions before us and the disruptor around the corner. He shares the background to his work leading change across his leadership team and how that work can help set the stage for the next generation of finance and administrative leaders to follow him.

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Transforming Independent Schools Through Strategic Technology
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Transforming Independent Schools Through Strategic Technology

CIO Nathan Gault takes Jeff and Howard inside his mission to transform Stevenson School through cutting-edge technology. Discover how one visionary leader is challenging the status quo in technology leadership and forging a new path for data-driven education that puts human connections at the heart of innovation.

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228: Looking Beyond the Enrollment Cliff with Professor Nathan Grawe
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228: Looking Beyond the Enrollment Cliff with Professor Nathan Grawe

Joining Howard Teibel today in conversation is Dr. Nathan Grawe, distinguished teaching professor of the social sciences at Carleton College, where he has served on the faculty since 1999. You might have seen Nathan's work as it relates to the framing of the enrollment cliff, something that's been exacerbated and accelerated in this last year.

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227: Infusing Innovation into Your Institution: Building Sustainable Change – A Conversation with Howard Teibel and Jeff Shields
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227: Infusing Innovation into Your Institution: Building Sustainable Change – A Conversation with Howard Teibel and Jeff Shields

Jeff Shields, CEO of the National Business Officers Association and Howard Teibel explore these questions in anticipation of the upcoming February all-virtual NBOA Annual Meeting. The opportunity in this year is to prepare ourselves with the right state of mind – resiliency, ambition for change and living our vision.

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