Once again I visit the Schumpeter column for an insightful and topical contribution. Schumpeter challenges the conventional view that corporate CEOs are ever more powerful and are paying themselves too …
‘Trouble in the middle’; Economist, October 15th
I carried this short but interesting article over from the last blog, because there were so many other competing articles. It builds on two other articles reviewed last time; the …
‘The top thirty’, the Economist, October 15th 2011
This is a short article in the Economist, providing its ratings of international business schools, based on a number of criteria. These combine salary levels, ability to find a job, …
‘Think Different’ from the Schumpeter Column, Economist, August 6th 2011
As usual, Schumpeter’s column contains more insights than many articles twice as long. It is based around a new book about innovation by Clay Christensen, Harvard’s guru in this area …
‘Tutors to the world’, Schumpeter column, Economist 11th June
Once again the Schumpeter column covers a management theme that is both relevant and topical – the internationalisation of business schools. It starts with an interesting assertion that intuitively I …
‘Profile of Jimmy Wales’, Sunday Times 16th January and ‘Wiki Birthday to you’ Economist 13th January
I’ve chosen these articles because, having reviewed a book on Wikipedia a few months ago and found it highly boring, I thought I would see if the Times and the …
‘Learning difficulties’, Science and Technology section, Economist, October 14th 2010
This is the shortest article I have ever reviewed for the blog but one of the most surprising and counter-intuitive. Research at the highly respected Ivy League University of Princeton …
Schumpeter; Money and Power, Economist, 2nd October 2010
Again we find that this relatively new column in the Economist discusses a topical theme in a thought-provoking way. It makes the point that business people and business skills rarely …
‘A post crisis case study’, Schumpeter column, Economist, July 31st 2010
Like most of Schumpeter’s weekly contributions this article is insightful and topical. The focus of the article is the appointment of a new Dean of Harvard Business School – Nitin …
‘Business Education – case studies’, Economist, 6th May 2010
As usual, the Economist provides an article that is concise and full of insight. It starts by mentioning that most of the top business schools – Harvard, Kellogg, Michigan, Northwestern …