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MBA – Major Bad Ass?

Are business schools bad for business? Are they to blame for the demise in good management practices because they have become obsessed with teaching maximizing shareholder value at the expense of everything else? Perhaps they are. If so, is there a way out?

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Strategies for managing risk in multinational corporations

In my post two days ago, reviewing the article by Manuj and Mentzer (2008) titled Global Supply Chain Risk Management, I mentioned that they cited a paper by Ghoshal (1987) titled Global Strategy: An Organizing Framework as one of their references for listing risk management strategies. Today, I will take a closer look at that paper.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Outsourcing – risking it all?
"The world is at risk and the supply chain is not exempt." Are you scared? "Supply risk used to be d[...]
Supply Chain Turbulence
We are living in turbulent times. So are our supply chains. Nonetheless, the standard tenets of supp[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Low Cost Country Sourcing
Low-cost countries. A dream for some and a nightmare for other others. What are typical supply chain[...]
Book Review: Single Point of Failure
Just out a few days ago, Single Point of Failure is a fascinating read. The author, Gary S. Lynch, i[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
When disaster strikes...
...how does the transportation network recover? And why are transportation networks so essential to [...]
London Olympics and Business Continuity
Are UK businesses, and in particular London businesses, unprepared for the London Olympics in 2012? [...]
from HERE and THERE
2nd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar
Do you remember the 1st Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar Barcelona 2009? I made a post about it [...]
The Box is back!
Finally, the BBC Box has returned home, as I was made aware of from a post on @risk the other day. I[...]