Although the early warning signs that an inflection point is on the way are often detectable years, even decades, in advance, trying to time most inflection points is incredibly frustrating. Not so with demographics. In… Read more »
Academic Concerns
Meet Alexander Osterwalder in person at Columbia workshop October 23
A great opportunity to meet my good friend and colleague, Alexander Osterwalder who will be visiting us at Columbia later this month! Invitation for Senior Leaders in Established Companies to Attend an Interactive Lecture-Workshop on… Read more »
Agony and ecstasy for young lawyers
For some time, I’ve suggested that law schools provide a cautionary tale for the rest of us. With many graduates loaded down with big debt and with few prospects for taking jobs that actually require… Read more »
New Women’s Leadership Course to be Launched in June
Anyone who has been following the coverage of women in the workplace, for example, this series in the Wall Street Journal, knows the general story line. Professional women enter workplaces in numbers roughly equal to men,… Read more »
The Future of Business Education – Panel at the Thinkers50 Event
Des Dearlove of the Thinkers50 chaired an amazing panel on November 11, 2013 entitled “The Future of Business Education”. It was sponsored by Dean Santiago Iniguez of the IE business school, and featured as panelists… Read more »
Will the legal establishment allow a two-year law school?
CNBC reports that President Obama is quoted as saying that law schools would “probably be wise” to move away from three-year programs to two. Who will fight like crazy to prevent two-year schools from being… Read more »
Transient Advantage: New article in HBR
In a new article featured in the June Harvard Business Review, I offer a summary of my new book. Essentially, that strategy is stuck! We've locked ourselves into a view of strategy that depends on… Read more »
The schizophrenic life of an academic
Today’s Wall Street Journal had a fascinating article about the heated competition to become America’s Top College Professor. Aside from being personally inspiring (as someone who spent a lot of years trying to figure out… Read more »
Unintended side effects of post-9/11 fear of flying
Garrick Blalock, Vrinda Kadiyali and Daniel H. Simon, writing in the journal Applied Economics (June 2009 – Volume 41, issue 14, pg. 1717) came to a fascinating conclusion. After the highly dramatic 9/11 attacks, many… Read more »
Academic language…you have to wonder
My colleague, Ian MacMillan, brought to my attention the abstract for a paper on sleep deprivation and team performance which appeared in the most recent edition of one of our academic journals. It reads, as… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning & Teaching in Non-Degree Executive Education Programs
I’m just here at the Strategic Management Society’s annual conference in Cologne. It’s a meeting which aspires to bring together academics, consultants and business-people for fruitful dialogue and exchanges, although in fairness the tilt does… Read more »
Business School Rankings: Hungry for Lists?
Anyone who enjoys watching the various business schools get sliced and diced by reviewers will get a kick out of the Financial Times report on business school rankings. Absolutely no shortage of lists in their… Read more »