Ken Starkey defends the importance of business schools, while Martin Parker says 'bring in the bulldozers'.
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Analysis and Comment
Talk of the post-industrial society is mostly hype without evidence.
Elizabeth Holmes has been charged with 'massive fraud'. She maintains her innocence but what lessons can boards take away from the whole affair?
Ronaldo and Messi cannot go on forever, and Neymar, Pogba and Salah are waiting in the wings.
Bricks and mortar stores can play a crucial component in the future of retail.
The true bane of an organisation is a lack of engagement and job satisfaction among its employees. World Cup mania could actually help.
What's in a name? A valued sense of history and identity.
Automation could transform our working world. Here's what we can do to ensure it is a more gender equal one.
The Turkish lira has dropped more than 15% this year against the US dollar.
US tariffs could potentially benefit some EU firms that rely on steel and aluminium.
The proposed Sky takeover is just the latest chapter in the Murdoch family saga which will see power shifting at the top of the empire.
Antitrust legislation needs an update for the 21st century.
The new coalition's spending plans will ramp up Italy's annual budget by over €100 billion a year.
Courts have created three legal barriers that have made it much harder for workers to complain to their employers about sexual harassment.
There are more than a thousand chief happiness officers on LinkedIn but their roles differ wildly.
If you thought the risk of Grexit was bad, you've got a shock coming in the shape of Italy.
Amazon is entering the grocery market in a number of ways.
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The short term interests of investors could lead to long term problems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Businesses can play a major role in either facilitating modern slavery or eradicating it.
The British government is trying to unblock £400m donated in 1927 by an anonymous donor who wanted it to help pay off the national war debt.
The return of the US to the top is driven by its strength in economic performance and infrastructure. But it's mixed results for president Trump.
Brexit
Sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, bread and hash browns. All are accounted for.
Brexit could erode workers’ wages and conditions, particularly if the British government deregulates employment laws and undercuts EU standards.
The UK's food regulator, the FSA, is planning a major reorganisation. The timing couldn't be worse.
Why the Commonwealth trade advantage isn't all that strong.
Three important aspects of international trade deals will limit the UK's democratic control over trade.
World of work
Managing our time means managing ourselves.
Seven million workers are missing out on information which keep keep them healthier.
Trade
Crunching the numbers on 14 years of trading shows one of the assumptions about global markets is looking fragile.
China's bid for an infrastructure blitz to drive overland trade through to Europe will end up being overshadowed.
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It largely depends on whether Europe will decide to ignore (and pay the price for) US sanctions.
Consumer law requires legal agreements to be transparent – so how does this apply to complicated terms and conditions we're expected to read?
The emotions associated with trends in popular music and lyrics can predict economic sentiment.
A long read on the decimation of British jobcentres – and why it puts the rollout of Universal Credit at risk.
How data-driven behavioural sciences are being road tested in the political sphere.
We know from every previous wave of feminist activism that some men fear loss of status and power, two things manifest in work and pay.
More women are making it to the boardroom but are often promoted to an untenable and precarious leadership position.
Young people are poorer than older people in England and the wealth gap between the young and the old is on the rise.
Cutting pension scheme costs can make staff angry and belligerent.
The US and China must work together to reform the global trade system. Their economies are too entwined for a trade war.
A strike around a specific employment issue can easily develop a momentum of its own and become a catalyst for a much wider expression of dissatisfaction.
It is no accident that practices of meditation and mindfulness have become so ubiquitous in our neoliberal times.
Bitcoin is being compared to tulips, but I researched tulip mania for years and found no evidence of mass bankruptcies or economic meltdown.
Dubbed the 'female ghetto', there's a reason why women are significantly over-represented in call centres.
The idea that automation and robotics will lead to huge job losses is wrong. Big business likes the sweat of cheap labour too much.
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