Safety in numbers?

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 7-9
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Safety In Numbers ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Made In

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings How do firms venture into overseas markets? This is a question that has vexed executives and academics alike since the days of the East India Company, and despite the wealth of research and experience that has been built up over the years, many executives would probably struggle not to say what they thought their firm should do, but why they think they know the answer. Did they learn it at business school? Did they ask similar firms for their experience? Or did they just go on gut feel? When the final decision is made in the boardroom, you can bet many directors just went on pure feeling of “what was right”. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Learning the PR trade

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Business School ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Change in business education is effortlessly elusive. No matter how often the great and the good of either the business or business school worlds lament the lack of adequate teaching through Masters of Business Administrations and other programmes, very rarely does anything seem to change. Managers are still put though their paces at business schools; they still read the same “seminal” books and case studies; they still get their blue riband qualification; they still receive a hefty increase in salary after graduation. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organisations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

scholarly journals Made in India: an interview with Mr Vimal Mahendru, CEO, Indo-Asian Fusegear Ltd.

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Guru Prakash Prabhakar ◽  
Pankaj Saran
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Made In

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Great leaders in the field of business tend to have an understanding of business environments of other countries; they are quick at learning from the strengths of other leaders. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Prevention is better than cure

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Company ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Better Than

Purpose Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings When looking at human history, it is interesting to note that companies are a relatively recent phenomenon. They started appearing mostly in Japan in Medieval times, before growing more widely in the Middle Ages before becoming international with the likes of the East India Company and others that were set up with the agreement of the British Crown. Since their beginning, there has always been a strong theme attached to firms which has likened then to human bodies. People refer to the ‘heart’ of a company or its ‘soul’; firms are described as ‘ailing’ or ‘thriving’; even the word ‘corporation’ comes from the Latin word for body. It seems that in seeking to understand how firms work, we use anthropomorphic language to describe them. Practical implications Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/Value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

“There’s only one Man United?”

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business School ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Harvard Business School ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – It has become something of a cliché to borrow cues from successful sporting managers and coaches and apply them to a modern business context. Indeed, many former managers are getting in on the act – see the success of some former coaches on the speaking circuit and even the increasing amount of work ex-Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been doing with Harvard Business School. It seems that there is a lucrative life after all when it is time to hang up the whistle and clipboard. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Virtual worlds provide real learning benefits

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Instructional Videos ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Delivery Mechanism ◽  
Learner Responses ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Made In

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Compares learner experiences of recorded instructional videos (DVDs) with Machinima, digital films made in virtual worlds. Analysis of learner responses showed that participants prefer Machinima as a learning delivery mechanism. Participants also reported being better able to concentrate on the message because there were fewer distractions such as the appearance, dress and mannerisms of real actors. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Follow my leader?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business School ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Psychological Profiles ◽  
The People ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Given that the study of management can trace its modern roots all the way back to the establishment of the first business school by Henry Wharton in Pennsylvania in 1881, there are some aspects of it that can frustrate and concern professionals in equal measure. One example of this that will be common to anyone who has spent time in the classroom is around leadership, and how much time and effort is taken up by case studies, psychological profiles, and theory about people who are in the minority in most businesses. What about the people who actually do the jobs that earn the revenues? Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Right people, right project?

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 39-41
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Made In

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Much has been made in recent years of the so-called agile ways of working and how they benefit all kinds of process-based working practices. First promoted in the 1990s in tech startups and communities, it has rapidly taken hold of digital development teams, and has begun to be adopted outside these as the most effective, efficient way to “get stuff done”. And even if you ignore the evangelists with their Post-It notes and Sharpies, it is hard not to be swayed by the sheer logic of breaking tasks down and working on them as teams in an intense, focused manner until the task is complete, and then moving on to the next one. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

With my reputation? Making the most of markets and avoiding risks

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core ◽  
Michael Porter ◽  
Wharton School ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the papers in context. Findings It is approximately 200 years since the first business school was set up – not the Wharton School as some would have you believe, but ESCP Europe in Paris in 1819. Building on some even earlier schools that taught accounting, ESCP and other European schools paved the way for the behemoths that were to follow in the twentieth century, and one can imagine that in some lectures the core messages were not too different from today – be customer-centric, behave ethically at all times, and try to create a competitive advantage (even if the term was yet to be made famous by Michael Porter). Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

What is the best business model fit for your business?

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-9
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business School ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Business Journal ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings It is one of the curious aspects of business that, despite the fact commerce has been around for millennia, the study of it is barely 100 years old. Whether it is the first business school (nineteenth century) or the first business journal (twentieth century), there is no rich tradition in the academic study for it. As a result – at least in scholarly circles – some academics can be a bit sniffy about it as a research pursuit, arguing it is merely an “applied” area, as opposed to the “pure” areas such as mathematics or chemistry. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Greed is (still) good

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 29-31 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Dot Com ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds his/her own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – There are some business phenomena that, like fashion, never seem to go away, or be truly original. Think of the drainpipe trousers that first saw the light in the nineteenth century, or the 1970s frilly shirts that were not a patch on those worn in Elizabethan times. Similarly, the global financial crisis was not a Great Depression, and the dot-com bubble could not hold a candle to the bubble that did for the East India Company all those years ago. Practical implications – This study provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Original/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and an easy-to-digest format.

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