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What's in the Journals, April 2007
Apr 16th 2007
From Economist.com


A look at noteworthy articles from business journals ... more



Lazard
The lives and battles of the great men who ran a great bank
Apr 12th 2007

What's in the Journals, March 2007
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Mar 30th 2007

What's in the Journals, February 2007
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Feb 23rd 2007

Sacked executives
How to make a comeback
Feb 15th 2007

What's in the Journals, January 2007
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Jan 15th 2007

Boeing and Airbus
The epic battle of two industrial giants
Jan 11th 2007

What's in the Journals, December 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Dec 18th 2006

What's in the Journals, November 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Nov 23rd 2006

Innovation and entrepreneurship
How to create the next big thing? Four new books offer some ideas
Nov 16th 2006

Conrad Black
A gripping cautionary tale
Nov 16th 2006

What's in the Journals, October 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Oct 16th 2006

Hewlett-Packard
Carly Fiorina, once America's favourite businesswoman, gets even with her ousters
Oct 12th 2006

Sandy Weill
The legacy of the man behind Citigroup
Oct 12th 2006

What's in the Journals, September 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Sep 20th 2006

What's in the Journals, August 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Sep 1st 2006

What's in the Journals, July 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Jul 31st 2006

What's in the Journals, June 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Jun 21st 2006

Doing business in China
The challenges of starting a business in China can be clearly seen from the experiences of two computer companies, one Chinese and one Western
Jun 15th 2006

The outsourcing debate (continued)
Don't get sore, get smart
Jun 12th 2006

The bad health of American health care
Can market forces save it?
May 31st 2006

Fading family firms
A couple of old European brands lose their polish
May 22nd 2006

What's in the Journals, May 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
May 30th 2006

The manager as “portfolio worker”
A scholar of common sense holds forth
May 4th 2006

The giant of German banking
One financial executive who left the scene too soon
Apr 27th 2006

What's wrong with Deutsche Börse?
Its former chairman still doesn't get it
Apr 20th 2006

The wacky world of consulting
From PIOUTA strategies to boiling the ocean
Apr 10th 2006

Crisis? What crisis?
The shaky case against retirement
Apr 3rd 2006

What's in the Journals, April 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Apr 24th 2006

Still flying off the shelves
Two republished business classics read as well today as ever
Mar 27th 2006

What's in the Journals, March 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Mar 27th 2006

The container industry
The big box business, which so many others take for granted
Mar 16th 2006

Chips and crisps
When supply chains snap
Mar 13th 2006

New fiction: “Company”
A welcome addition to the under-populated field of corporate satire
Mar 9th 2006

Books about Wal-Mart
The world's biggest retailer may have hidden weaknesses
Feb 23rd 2006

The genuine article
How to be the perfect CEO
Feb 21st 2006

The business elites of France and Britain
Alike as chalk and cheese?
Feb 14th 2006

What's in the Journals, February 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Feb 20th 2006

Exit strategy
How a boss managed his dying days
Feb 6th 2006

The story so far at Enron...
The best books to bring you up to date
Jan 30th 2006

What's in the Journals, January 2006
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Jan 30th 2006

Treading the boards
How corporate boards can improve
Jan 18th 2006

Outsourcing intelligently
Don't be too quick to farm out strategy
Dec 16th 2005

What's in the Journals, December 2005
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Dec 16th 2005

Top thinkers' top books
Top business thinkers pick their favourite books
Dec 5th 2005

What's in the Journals, November 2005
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Nov 25th 2005

Peter Drucker
The one management thinker every educated person should read
Nov 17th 2005

A bit more passion, please
The story of Emerson's successful management process is fascinating. If only the CEO sounded fascinated
Nov 11th 2005

Still leaning, after all these years
Applying the Toyota way to everything from computers to air travel
Oct 28th 2005

What's in the Journals, October 2005
A look at noteworthy articles from business journals
Oct 28th 2005

Managing “knowledge workers”
Resurrecting assembly-line ambitions for the service economy
Oct 13th 2005

Corporate snobbery
What status means to brands, plus a shortlist of potentially prize-winning books
Oct 7th 2005

Static businesses in a dynamic world
Don't judge this argument by its cover
Jul 12th 2005

Business satire
Love and striving, through an all-too-plausible sea of e-mail and management jargon
Jul 14th 2005

Drama kings
True tales of terrible mergers
Jun 22nd 2005

The selling of the counterculture
How cries against consmerism have become another form of marketing
May 26th 2005

Branding
Venturing beyond the visual
Apr 21st 2005

The fall of Enron
A gripping account of the company's rise and fall
Apr 14th 2005

First, kill all the lobbyists
A call for political reform masquerading as a business book
Apr 14th 2005

How to be good and profitable
A thoughtful, if limited, look at well-behaved American companies
Mar 11th 2005

Confidence game
The latest, but not greatest, from a Harvard Business School star
Jan 24th 2005

A round-up of business books
What was the best book about business published in the past 12 months?
Dec 16th 2004

A realistic approach to change
Can a manager be both an insider and an outsider at the same time?
Nov 24th 2004

Let the games begin
How today’s videogame-players will fare as tomorrow’s employees
Oct 28th 2004

Going global by thinking local
A new book seeks to help companies stymied in new markets
Sep 29th 2004

Ghoshal's legacy
The management guru’s last book (co-authored with Heike Bruch) is an accessible work on how to keep managers focused
Aug 31st 2004

Awful business books
Why are so many unreadable?
Aug 19th 2004

Sparing change
Can organisations make drastic changes without losing knowledge and making employees uncomfortable?
Jul 26th 2004





News from the schools, April 2007
Winning sustainable technology, a virtual INSEAD, Harvard tops the latest ranking, and more
Apr 13th 2007

Management theory
Can voguish management theory help to win a venerable race?
Mar 29th 2007

News from the schools, March 2007
A fight over naming rights, Fortune's flawed ranking, Kellogg's new weekend programme and more
Mar 16th 2007

News from the schools, February 2007
New programmes in Dubai, politics and admissions, the latest ranking, and more
Feb 23rd 2007

Practical applications
A collection of interviews from the 2006 MBA Fair
Jan 16th 2007

News from the schools, January 2007
Names for sale, Fuqua's new dean, UN-inspired fellows and more
Jan 23rd 2007

News from the schools, December 2006
Awards for excellence, Columbia's expansion plans, new deans in London, CSR too far, and more
Dec 12th 2006

News from the schools, November 2006
Oxford emphasises innovation, India's growing popularity, a Harvard alumnus loses in Nicaragua, and more
Nov 20th 2006

Top of the class
For the second year running a European school leads the pack
Oct 12th 2006

News from the schools, October 2006
Learning on the links, breaking down the latest rankings, educating applicants, and more
Oct 30th 2006

News from the schools, September 2006
The prevalence of cheating, French schools dominate the latest ranking, an MBA grows in Gaza, and more
Sep 25th 2006

News from the schools, August 2006
Applications increase, Scotland's planned super-school hits a snag, brainwork at Tepper, and more
Aug 28th 2006

News from the schools, July 2006
Tanaka tackles market dysfunctionality, Kellogg's MBA refreshers, new programmes for church leaders, and more
Jul 28th 2006

News from the schools, June 2006
Investment banking as a career choice, Franco-Spanish collaboration, major changes at Stanford, and more
Jun 30th 2006

News from the schools, May 2006
A school for wine drinkers, the value of customised programmes, the power of a good recommendation letter, and more
May 26th 2006

Light on their feet
The heads of business schools are becoming like sports coaches
Apr 27th 2006

News from the schools, April 2006
Harvard's version of Christology, Northeastern's new direction, the latest rankings, and more
Apr 21st 2006

News from the schools, March 2006
The effects of bad marketing, Bush boosts and Indian competitor, and the debate over admissions consultants
Mar 24th 2006

News from the schools, February 2006
Abrupt resignations stun Harvard and USC, a Stanford professor joins the White House and Wharton tops another ranking
Feb 23rd 2006

News from the schools, January 2006
LBS wants more women, Cass expands eastward and INSEAD picks a new dean
Jan 27th 2006

News from the schools, December 2005
Oxford comes of age, Scotland’s high hopes and Thunderbird's troubles
Dec 16th 2005

News from the schools, November 2005
Instituto de Empresa MBAs network online, William & Mary renames itself and Harvard hunts for a dean
Nov 25th 2005

News from the schools, October 2005
Pakistan's top school aids earthquake victims; Wharton is tops in MBAs for executives
Oct 28th 2005

Panning for gold in New Orleans
Thousands of business-school professors walk into a conference. Should managers be there too?
Aug 24th 2004

Looking for an advantage
What happens when business school professors consider competitive advantage
Jul 1st 2004

Pack of the leaders
One centre’s continuing study of leadership
Jun 1st 2004

INSEAD at a crossroads
In need of executives and donors
Mar 8th 2004

Is it worth it?
With less money around, executives must take a hard look at their training plans. Our Executive Education Outlook discusses the value of executive education in hard times
Sep 5th 2003

Change is the name of the game
From Harvard: You can't fight the fact that business is changing, but you can negotiate the terms
Sep 5th 2003

Change for the better?
One of the oldest executive MBA programmes gets a makeover
Sep 5th 2003

A new step forward
Will an executive MBA help you change careers?
Sep 5th 2003


The peculiarities of business-school rankings
The more the rankings differ, the less attention they receive
Sep 22nd 2005

Swiss, please
A new entry into the European MBA market
May 5th 2005

Are business schools bad for business?
Business schools stand accused of being responsible for much that is wrong with corporate management
Feb 17th 2005

Bologna makes for a meatier degree
Standardising European business education
Feb 14th 2005

The degreed salaryman
The MBA market comes to Japan
Jan 19th 2005

Part-time works, too
As MBA applicant numbers change, so too do the students' desires
Oct 27th 2004

The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2004 rankings of MBA programmes
The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, has released its most recent rankings of MBA programmes. For the third year in a row, the Kellogg School of Management has come out on top
Oct 15th 2004

Faking it
If you can pick up an MBA in less time than you can pick up your dry-cleaning, it is you who have been taken to the cleaners
Aug 6th 2004

The debate about management education
Are business schools teaching the right things?
May 20th 2004

Management education
The failings of MBA programmes
May 13th 2004

Less experience needed
MBA programmes are taking a hard look at an old assumption
Apr 30th 2004

The big step forward
When is the best time to earn an MBA? Our MBA Outlook looks at the changing environment
Oct 14th 2003

Great application, sorry about the visa
Business schools are doing their best to help foreign students through America’s tougher visa process
Oct 14th 2003






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