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MBA – Major Bad Ass?

Are business schools bad for business? I recently came across a very interesting article by the late Sumatra Ghoshal, who blamed business schools for the demise in management practices because they have become obsessed with teaching maximizing shareholder value at the expense of everything else.  In Bad Management Theories are Destroying Good Management Practices he claims that business schools have gone astray because they teach ideology more than they teach theory, let alone good management practices. Are business schools really that bad?

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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. The word “supply chain” doesn’t even appear once in Ghoshal’s paper, but why is this paper so interesting in a supply chain risk perspective?

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