2013 – what do you predict?
We are asked four London Business School professors – Andrew Scott, Julian Birkinshaw, John Mullins and Ioannis Ioannou – for their predictions on the year ahead.
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Face value
When it comes to charitable giving, what makes someone decide to support a given organisation? David Faro explored the ways in which people make decisions about charitable donations.
Waiting for a winner
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.
Reinventing the rings
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 Davos Agenda
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.
What do you want to be?
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.
Freek’s comment
The White House committee report on BP’s Deep Water Horizon rig disaster: the systemic failures are even wider than the committee acknowledges
Keeping port terrorists at bay
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.
Predicting the future of work
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.
Why we need banks
Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean of London Business School, considers why some bankers have been vilified but banks are nonetheless essential.
Help, don't romanticize, the poor
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.
Globalization and poverty
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.
Pyramid vision
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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