See Teaching Economics after the Crisis. J-C Trichet: ECB President “As a policy-maker, I felt abandoned by conventional tools.” (2010). This may be mostly about macro-economics, but reflects fundamental inadequacies in the underlying […]
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FT calls for more Fred Goodwins!
So the FT reckons companies just need CEOs with “experience”, not strategic competence. Business leaders, politicians, strategy consultants and business schools have been wringing their hands since the 2008 […]
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Strategy and the economy
With worries about world economies falling back again, we could reflect on how we got in this mess, and some questions for Strategy. Recessions usually start, I hear, […]
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More on growth vs. ROIC
One challenge I got from the academics on the issue of strategy tools’ usefulness was whether growth is still a relevant question in these recessionary times.
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Decline and recovery by sector
Experienced execs may have a good feel for how their particular industry may evolve during the downturn and recovery – e.g. consumer sectors tend to fall first, but […]