Who imports most weapons?
Reinventing the Company
Patents reveal the most innovative places to do it.
Content: Article | Source: “The Economist” | Subjects: Innovation, International
What rich countries gave in foreign aid
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.
Content: Article | Authors: Carol Lewis, Roger Steare | Sources: “Cass Business School”, “The Economist” | Subject: Organizational Behavior
Female MBAs tend to earn less than their male colleagues
Global Fish Catch is Levelling Off
What Departing Workers Take With Them
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.
Content: Article | Authors: Elroy Dimson, Mike Staunton, Paul Marsh | Source: “The Economist” | Subjects: Economics, Finance
The Future is Another Country
A world of colleges without borders should benefit everyone, including students who stay at home.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: “The Economist” | Subject: International MBA Issues
How people in various countries view the theory of evolution
America has become the world leader in wind power
Digital-music revenues jumped in 2008
Americans are having fewer abortions
Bicycle and car production since 1950
University Attendance is Growing
Who gives most in private aid to poor countries?
Picking winners
Is it better to choose the horse or the jockey?
Content: Article | Source: “The Economist” | Subject: Entrepreneurship
What witch doctors?
Maybe management theory is not hocus pocus after all.
Content: Article | Source: “The Economist” | Subjects: Best Practices, Management
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 ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: “The Economist” | Subjects: MBA Program Rankings, Online & Distance MBA
Practically Irrelevant?
What is the point of research carried out in business schools?
Content: Article | Source: “The Economist” | Subject: MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training