Web Exclusive: When it comes to investing, how do corporations respond to the political uncertainty created by a coming election? Brandon Julio has documented the tendency of firms to reduce their investment expenditures in national election years and explored why.
Spring 2008: The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will be one of the seminal moments of the first decade of the twenty-first century: China’s dramatic entry into the global economy. The event has come to symbolise China’s historic transformation from communist past to capitalist future. But, says Michael Payne, Beijing is also the proof of another no less impressive renaissance – the transformation of the Olympic Games itself.
Web Exclusive: What should be on the agenda at the World Economic Forum’s Annual General Meeting at Davos? Experts from London Business School provide a challenging array of suggestions.
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The in-demand careers of the future will be very different from those of the not so recent past. Lynda Gratton’s research reveals the must-have careers of the future.
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The White House committee report on BP’s Deep Water Horizon rig disaster: the systemic failures are even wider than the committee acknowledges
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Nitin Bakshi, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School, and two colleagues took part in a critical investigation of how to best improve US port security to meet the requirements of a new legislation.
Autumn 2010:
Over the last year, Lynda Gratton led a research consortium of 21 companies and over 200 executives from around the world in an exploration of the look and feel of tomorrow's workplace.
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Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean of London Business School and a Director of Barclays, considers why some bankers have been villified but banks are nonetheless essential.
Summer 2008:
Aneel Karnani suggests that current thinking about reducing poverty is based on an unrealistic view of the poor and inadequate expectations about how governments can best address the problem.
Winter 2007:
Can business eliminate poverty? And, if yes, should it? As business becomes more global in scope, companies need to think about how they will address the poorest sectors of the planet.
Summer 2007:
Increasingly, business leaders influence and set the political and economic agendas. They want to change the world. Inspirationally, Fadi Ghandour is already doing so. Stuart Crainer reports.
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