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- Business Lessons from Alice in Wonderland
- The Find: Like Lewis Carroll's red queen, companies in a cut-throat business environment can put so much effort into just keeping up with the competition that they fail to see they're getting no advantage for all their effort. The Source: The Random Rantings blog of Freek Vermeulen,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
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- Biz Prof: What do Bhopal, Enron and Meltdown '08 Have in Common?
- The Find: Sure, all three were massive business disasters, but Freek Vermeulen insists they also had the same underlying cause: a combination of excessive complexity and "the myopia of success," seasoned with a healthy dash of greed. The Source: The Random Rantings blog of Vermeulen, a strategy...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- London Business School: Re-org is its Own Reward
- The Find: One professor thinks you don't need a good reason to reorganize your departments -- a reshuffle is an end unto itself. The Source: The "Random Rantings" blog of Freek Vermeulen, Associate Professor of Strategic & International Management at the London Business School. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- How to Get Lucky in Business
- How is it that some companies seem to get so lucky? London Business School professor of strategy Freek Vermeulen discusses the importance of chance events to business in his podcast. Researching his study, "Fortune Favours the Prepared Firm", Vermeulen discovered that business success...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- LBS Prof Gives Three Tips to Survive...and Thrive
- Last week on his Random Rantings blog always an interesting read, London Business School strategy professor Freek Vermeulen tried to answer the question on everybody's mind these days: Who to turn to in a downturn? Lots of analysis covers companies in decline, but it's probably more helpful to take a...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- What Baseball Can Teach Managers About Pay Inequality
- The Find: If you manage a team of people who work towards a common goal and perform similar tasks, should you pay them basically equally or offer incentives and unequal rewards? Baseball may provide the answer. The Source: The Random Rantings blog of London Business School professor...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Does Innovation Require Desperation?
- What do you do when your close competitors start slashing prices? Retailers claim that quality matters more than ever, but that presumes your business is offering a product or service of markedly higher quality than your cheaper competitor. Customers "seldom" want to pay the difference, reckons London...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- B-School Profs on Students as Customers, the Trouble With Brainstorming, and More
- This week, we take a look at blogs written by business school professors: "Student as customer" metaphor chaps his hide -- Dr. Gad Saad, associate professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, offers a rant on the Psychology Today blog about...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- B-School Profs on Microdecisions, Redefining Workspace and the Icarus Paradox
- The more things change, the more they stay the same -- Technology management professor Andrew Hargadon of UC Davis Graduate School of Management wrote about lies and statistics last week, calling statistics the weapon of choice these days in everything from science to stimulus plans. On the bright side, the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- B-School Profs on Madoff, Selection Bias and Missing the Next Google
- Three lessons from the Bernie Madoff scandal -- Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, sees many lessons, both useful and non-useful, coming on the heels of the Madoff scandal. The urge to over-diversify, search for more bad apples and define "acceptable" levels of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Taking Advantage of Turmoil -- A Case Study
- You've read it often that periods of turmoil are the best times to innovate -- catch your competitors while they retrench. But what does this mean in real business life? Here's a perfect example of how this can work, courtesy of London Business School professor Freek Vermeulen. Writing...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- The Friday Round-Up
- This isn’t new, but it’s fun. The Telegraph’s ‘Venture Navigator’ allows you to test your entrepreneurial skills across different areas. Go play. Managers are like drunken cyclists, says Freek Vermeulen at Random Rantings -- that is, they look for easily visible solutions rather than peering into the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- B-School Blogs: Differences Between Managers and Leaders, Lunch with David Booth, and More
- Weekly highlights from MBA bloggers around the world. MBA in the USA -- Grayson Leverenz weighs in on sports chat during interviews. Seems international MBAs are baffled by how Americans commonly use sports to develop rapport with an interviewee. When Leverenz recently asked an Indian student what...
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- B-School Profs on Pay Cuts, Social Responsibility and...Basketball?
- This week, we take a look at blogs written by business school professors. Your mind is playing tricks on you again -- Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, celebrated the first anniversary of his book, "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden...
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
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