Last year Margaret Heffernan, author of the book ‘Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril’, visited Bradford to give a talk in the School of Management’s guest lecture series which are open to local businesses.  The theme of the talk was that managers and businesses fail sometimes to see the most obvious [...]

I recently attended a panel discussion on Women on Boards organised by Pinsent Masons in London. The discussion focused on the implications of the Davies Report of 2011 that established there was a long way to go to achieve gender equality on boards – and that the resulting lack of diversity has led to groupthink [...]

This edition of Bradford University School of Management’s digest of the latest business thinking features

Corporate legacies
What are the key factors for an innovative business?
The Budget 2011
Opportunities for sustainable innovation

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STRATEGY
FT Column: Corporate legacies can harm your future
FT business blogger Andrew Hill wrote a column earlier this month demonstrating [...]

In a Dilbert cartoon the eponymous office hero casts his satirical eye over the process of organisational transformation, concluding it is carried out by non-communicative morons.  But are the problems really down to management style and lack of communication or is there a deeper malaise for managers?
A major challenge for managers today is lack of [...]

As British Airways announced its first profits in two years this autumn, it’s interesting to look at what makes businesses successful and how failing businesses can turn themselves around to re-secure competitive advantage.  Step forward, dynamic capabilities.
Dynamic capabilities have become a hot topic in the strategic management and organisational change arenas since the concept was [...]

It’s often said that business success or failure comes down to successful or unsuccessful leadership. In offering advice, business pundits tend to come down on the side of either transformational leadership or of transactional leadership. But is it really that clear-cut?
Transformational leadership really comes into its own in helping to break an organisation’s administrative [...]

Two years after the collapse of the Lehman’s Brothers investment bank the business outlook is still largely bleak. New  rules in Basel iii aim to regulate the global financial system and thereby, presumably, to inch the rug back under business’s feet from where it was unceremoniously pulled in 2008. But companies continue to face constant [...]

I recently spoke at a stimulating seminar on ‘Leveraging a Business Career into Academic Success’ run by the Foundation for Management Education (FME). Being asked to speak  about this was a great opportunity for me right at the beginning of  my new job as Dean of the Bradford School of Management.
I had a story to [...]