Description: Want to work on Wall Street? Suit up, turn your spell check on, and leave your risk-taking, self-starter attitude home. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Jan 13, 2015 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-13/wall-street-doesnt-want-you-unless-youre-a-robot#r=hpt-fs Questions for discussion: What does the article say about hiring at Wall Street firms? Are you surprised?
Posts Categorized: Part 3 Management: Empowering People to Achieve Business Objectives
McDonald’s New Turnaround Plan Is So 1990s
Description: In a period of lasting difficulty for McDonald’s, with U.S. same-store sales dropping over consecutive quarters, executives turn to regionalized menus, made-to-order burgers, and speed to bring the world’s largest burger chain out of a multi-quarter slump. Sound familiar? Source: Businessweek.com Date: Jan 07, 2015 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-07/mcdonalds-new-turnaround-plan-is-so-1990s#r=hpt-lst Questions for discussion: What is the company’s strategy for change? Do you think… Read more »
Here’s what working will look like in 2030
Description: Tremendous forces are radically reshaping the world of work. Source: FinancialPost.com Date: Jan 05, 2015 Link: http://business.financialpost.com/2015/01/05/heres-what-working-will-look-like-in-2030/ Questions for discussion: Summarize the changes predicted in this report. How do you think management will change as a direct result? What conflict do you foresee, if these changes come to pass?
The promotions (and demotions) of America’s most powerful women execs
Description: Fortune’s 2014 Most Powerful Women in Business list has seen a lot of change since it was published in September. Source: Fortune.com Date: Jan 02, 2015 Link: http://fortune.com/2015/01/02/most-powerful-women/ Questions for discussion: What does this report say about these women and their respective organizations? Does this report suggest that women executives have done well?
Sony exec, producer apologize after insensitive emails
Description: Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair Amy Pascal and Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin have both issued apologies after Sony’s massive corporate hack revealed an email exchange of the two making distasteful jokes about President Obama. Source: Fortune.com – video report Date: Dec 11, 2014 Link: http://for.tn/1Biqvlv Questions for Discussions: What lessons should all managers take away… Read more »
Chris Rock Is Right: Hollywood Isn’t Fair to Black Films
Description: Chris Rock has made a career of being blunt, particularly about race. So when he wrote in the Hollywood Reporter last week that the movie business is “a white industry,” his appraisal was familiarly provocative. And by most measures, his remark was also right. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Dec 12, 2014 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-12/top-five-chris-rock-is-right-hollywood-isnt-fair-to-black-films#r=hp-ls Questions for Discussions: What… Read more »
How Wall Street Puffed Up Sales of $800 Down Parkas
Description: Fashion doesn’t take many cues from dog kennels in Fairbanks, Alaska. But in Lance Mackey, a rangy 44-year-old professional dog-sled racer with a greasy ponytail and a chunk of jaw lost to a battle with cancer, a high-priced parka has found a winning spokesmodel—even if Mackey doesn’t seem too concerned with his head-turning wardrobe. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Dec 09,… Read more »
Can Virgin Group Solve the Cruise Industry’s Old-People Problem?
Description: Sun, fun and drinks on a boat? That’s about as logical a brand extension as one could imagine for Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, which plans to field two new, 4,200-passenger cruise ships late this decade and begin selling Caribbean voyages. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Dec 05, 2014 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-05/bransons-virgin-group-aims-to-join-the-cruise-industry Questions for Discussions: Who is Virgin targeting?… Read more »
Success Draws Competition for Luxury E-Retailer Yoox
Description: In an unmarked warehouse at a vast industrial park on the outskirts of Bologna, a three-story-tall robot is mining for a gem: a $980 sleeveless cocktail dress from Armani, in French size 42. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 06, 2014 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/business/international/success-draws-competition-for-luxury-e-retailer-yoox.html?ref=international Questions for Discussions: What is the basis for this business model success? How… Read more »
Three Chinese Proverbs Expose Gaps in U.S. Business Education
Description: Having taught in MBA programs and worked for many years in China, I have found that most Western business students have little insight into the mindset of an economic power that is on a path to surpass the U.S. in the near future. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Dec 05, 2014 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-05/business-school-doesnt-prepare-mbas-to-compete-with-china#r=most%20popular Questions for Discussions:… Read more »
