For supporters of provincial lightweights like Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United, their wishes came true in the seventies when they landed the Division One title. It was the decade of the underdog - when the FA cup was still football's Holy Grail and teams like Sunderland, Ipswich and[...]
Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies. Both sides claim to have the facts on their [...]
We've got a problem--our most talented and educated young people aren't building things. They're not starting or joining innovative companies that are addressing crises in education, energy, or transportation. Meanwhile, in recovering cities such as Detroit, New Orleans, and Baltimore, promising sta[...]
Companies need to understand, manage and control the risks of doing business, whilst exploiting and gaining competitive advantage from the many opportunities in a globalised world. Drawing on sudden and destabilizing events such as the Arab Spring, the growth and influence of social media, developme[...]
Why does one entrepreneur succeed when another fails? What are the key characteristics that define Britain's top business builders? And what has Richard Branson's mother got to do with it all? This book tracks down the country's top wealth creators in their natural habitat.[...]
Seven years after the financial crisis of 2008, financiers remain villains in the public mind. Most Americans believe that their irresponsible actions and complex financial products wrecked the economy and destroyed people's savings, and that bankers never adequately paid for their crimes. But as E[...]
From the Publishers Weekly review: "Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly long-t[...]