The uniform of business school academia — the professors, associate deans, thought leaders and consultants who shape management education from Boston to London to Singapore — is the branded Patagonia fleece vest or polo shirt.  For the junior faculty and […]

Everyone will admit that coming out of the Covid cocoon was going to be liberating.  And, indeed, it has been.  We are now free to come and go as we please and enjoy the sweet taste and smell of liberty.  […]

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter at a price of $44 billion dollars took one of the internet’s largest public forums out of ‘public’ ownership and moved it into private hands.  Since his takeover the debate around the direction Musk is […]

A number of years ago, a colleague and I were doing a Board/Top Management Team intervention at a major diversified multinational.  It was interesting in that the firm was fairly financially successful but was struggling in key businesses.  It also […]

The news that Russia has reached out to China for military and economic support has sent shockwaves across the world.  What is going on?  Is this simply a way in which Vladimir Putin is forcing Xi Jinping to take a […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has represented an escalation of hostilities that has led to perhaps the quickest and most aggressive and comprehensive economic reactions in history.  Prior sanctioning usually has been a slow boil or limited to economies that operated […]

The last decade has seen the rise of a belief that shareholder capitalism has failed and that a new era of stakeholder capitalism is needed.  This is more than an academic viewpoint as more and more influential organisations, leading companies, […]

Although the corporation as a form dates from the 17th Century, what we would call the “modern corporation” originated with the development of formal corporate law, and the establishment of limited liability, in the middle of the 19th Century.  However, […]

The events in Washington DC on January 6th have resonated far and wide.  Some of those involved on the day find themselves facing Federal charges while others are surprised that there are consequences for their jobs, careers and flight status.  […]

As the end of 2020 approaches, I thought it worthy of a waste of time — or the avoidance of doing more university administrative work — to take stock of the knowledge that the varieties of lockdowns (and tier surfing) […]