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The route to business success: 5 challenges and a roadblock
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,...
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What Makes a Great Employer? 5 Important Qualities your Business Needs
Congratulations to Leeds-based advertising agency, Gratterpalm, winners of this year’s Best Employer category in the Yorkshire Post’s Business Excellence Awards. Over the last few years the School...
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Transformational leadership: why your business can’t grow without it
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...
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The dynamic capabilities lifecycle: 2 vital links in the business chain 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...
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Organisational transformation: 3 key stages for managing change
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...
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In-company degrees: Business embraces education
Standing in a queue for tickets at the Edinburgh Festival last week, my mobile kept on ringing. Waiting to go in to see Jonathan Agnew at the Edinburgh Book Festival, the same happened. What were...
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Top 10 blog topics for business and academics – from our own Bradford...
Last week I looked at the most popular posts of 2013 on our Management Thinking blog, covering the Top 5. Here we look at the remaining top ten – are there any surprises here? 6. How do I...
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PwC, Asda, Unilever and WPP keep us on our toes at business games challenge
Despite having a very early start on the Saturday morning to get to the Durham Business Games, the group seemed to be more energetic and alive than most of the students there. Keen as ever, the...
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Durham Business Challenge Day 1: PWC Strategy challenge For this challenge and all the others we were placed in randomly formed groups. This was useful as it tested our ability to work with different...
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Business engagement – a romantic notion or the future?
The view of the academic sitting in their ivory tower still exists although many of us are trying hard to remove the tarnished legacy of this, to move to a more wholesome image of working together...
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