October sees the return of our Business Education Network modules – this autumn we are focussing on the key business skills of Finance, Strategy & Leadership. Aimed at senior professionals …
How IKEA is adapting to the new retail landscape
There is an interesting article in the Schumpeter Column of The Economist of 26th January. ‘As retailers abandon the high street why is IKEA moving in’. I have been pondering …
Can Apple sustain their competitive advantage?
The business news this morning pays a lot of attention to the fall in the Apple share price. Apple shares fell by 8% yesterday. A number of reasons are put …
Jon Huntsman 1937-2018
This is the second time in two weeks that I have written about a significant business person who died recently. Following the recent blog on Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of …
Ingvar Kamprad (1926-2018)
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, has died aged 91. He was one of the most successful business people of all time. At various times his fortune was estimated between …
Blue Ocean Shift – Beyond Competing
The book Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne was published in 2005, with an expanded edition following in 2015. Now a new book Blue Ocean Shift by …
What are Business Schools for?
I was struck by the first line of an article in the Sunday Times this week. Luke Johnson asks ‘What are Business Schools for?’ It is, to me at least, …
Dear CEO – Thinkers 50
Recently published by Bloomsbury this collection of letters from respected business thinkers makes interesting reading. One piece we enjoyed was by Costas Markides of London Business School, titled “Maximising shareholder …
Why do we Undervalue Competent Management?
This well researched article from Harvard Business Review turns what students are taught at Business School on its head, at least to some extent. It has been accepted in Business …
Is Trump’s view of Germany right?
Roger Bootle is one of our favourite writers on Economics. We have reviewed two of his published books; The trouble with Markets in 2012 and The trouble with Europe in 2016. As well …