Reinventing the Company

Patents reveal the most innovative places to do it.

What’s your moral profile?

A survey across 163 countries by Professor Roger Steare found that people divide into six types of moral profile, each with a discrete ethicability.

Performance anxiety

Contrarians act against the market mood. “Buy when others are fearful, sell when they are greedy,” Warren Buffett has advised. The historical evidence for buying on the dips, however, is rather mixed.

The Future is Another Country

A world of colleges without borders should benefit everyone, including students who stay at home.

Picking winners

Is it better to choose the horse or the jockey?

What witch doctors?

Maybe management theory is not hocus pocus after all.

The Economist Distance Learning Ranking

The Economist Intelligence Unit has produced a ranking of the world’s top distance-learning MBA programs. Ranking distance-learning programs is not straightforward. Many of the quantitative data used to rank full-time MBA programs are of little use when it comes to distance learning.

However, if you are to study much of the program in isolation, a sense of connection to the school and good virtual learning materials … [ Read more ]

Practically Irrelevant?

What is the point of research carried out in business schools?