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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
Supply chain vulnerability and resilience
Today's post is a review of a conference paper written by Francesco Longo and Tuncer Ă–ren in 2008 an[...]
Rigorous Risk Management
As a global management consulting firm, A.T. Kearney is focusing on strategic and operational CEO-ag[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Supply Chain Risk - the forgotten discipline
No, it's not that supply chain risk is a forgotten discipline, it' is well and alive an kicking, it'[...]
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risky cities - want to work there?
If you are doing global business, do you know where you are at risk and what risk that is most perti[...]
Future Value Chain Trends 2020
The twelve future trends that will shape value chains and supply chain management during this decade[...]
from HERE and THERE
Save costs and the environment
Hitting two birds with one stone? Can you shrink manufacturing costs while at the same time operate [...]
Supplier Risk Management
Normally, when finding topics for this blog, it is I who have to seek out and find the established o[...]