Karl Moore on introverts, extroverts, and Warren Buffett

Published: 11 May 2017

Back in January, Karl Moore took a group of Desautels students to meet Warren Buffett at his Omaha offices. Mr. Buffett is known to be an introvert, and his conduct during the visit bore that out;...

Maybe it’s time to second-guess the Harvard MBA and its ilk

Published: 11 May 2017

In a recent op-ed, Financial Times editor Andrew Hill takes issue with the methodologies of the MBA programs offered by the Harvard Business School and other schools worldwide. In this, he aligns...

The Desautels professor who is taking on the MBA

Published: 9 May 2017

Henry Mintzberg is looking beyond the MBA. For years, the Desautels Professor railed against what many in the corporate world see as the ultimate form of business education....

Government is a bad match for Trump’s management style

Published: 2 May 2017

Donald Trump’s 100-day-old presidency has come up short according to nearly any metric. As the U.S. President has failed to get major legislation passed, or to fill some key government positions,...

Leadership, management and a false dichotomy

Published: 25 April 2017

In a letter to Malaysia’s The Star Online, management consultant Dr Ranjit Singh Malhi takes issue with the widely-held distinction between managers and leaders. Though many theorists draw a line...

A call to curb cabotage in Australia

Published: 19 April 2017

In the Australian coastal shipping reform efforts, the discussion has come down to whether or not cabotage (the practice of using foreign companies for domestic shipping) should be promoted or...

Mintzberg on why the US can’t be run like a business

Published: 4 April 2017

In a recent piece for the Harvard Business Review, Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg takes aim at US President Trump’s attempts to run the United States like a business, then demolishes them....

MBA no guarantee of long-term success

Published: 3 April 2017

Three separate studies, including one authored in part by Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg, have concluded that the MBA is not the gateway to business success after all — findings that are at...

Andrew Potter, the debate continues

Published: 30 March 2017

Amid the fallout from former McGill Institute for the Study of Canada director Andrew Potter’s Maclean’s article about stranded motorists, the Globe and Mail interviewed McGill Principal Suzanne...

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