Over the years, the WMS initiative has received wide coverage in international media including the BBC, Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Newsweek, and Washington Post.
2023
26 October 2023, The Economist: How to be a better boss
13 April 2023, The Economist: America’s economic outperformance is a marvel to behold
25 February 2023, The Guardian: Bad managers on brilliant pay: that’s why the UK’s not working
24 February 2023, Financial Times: Stop making fun of managers
23 February 2023, Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore: Oral reply to PQ on Performance of Managers of Singapore Companies
08 February 2023, Blue Book Services: Hard work = fair treatment
24 January 2023, Bloomberg: McKinsey’s Missteps Point to an Industry-Wide Mess
31 January 2023, The Economist: For Britain to grow faster it needs better managers
10 January 2023, Greek Reporter: New Study Highlights Deficiencies in Greek Industry
2021
08 November 2021, Forbes: Powerless Bosses And The Meaning Of Leadership
18 October 2021, Phys.org: Structured management protocols help firms thrive
24 May 2021, Financial Times: Business School Briefing: sustainable finance teaching awards, soft skills
23 May 2021, Financial Times: The simple tools that helped companies resist the crisis
09 April 2021, The Economic Times: Solving the leadership puzzle
08 January 2021, Kouti Pandoras: The work in the Pissaridis Exhibition: Repeating the mistake
06 January 2021, INSEAD Knowledge: In Bad Times, Decentralised Firms Outperform Their Rivals
2019
03 December 2019, Business Insider: A simple overlooked change can help teams perform at their best
18 November 2019, CEO-World magazine: The measurable difference between a good leader, and a great leader
11 October 2019, The Print (India): In India’s quest for jobs, here’s what Modi government’s policy agenda should be
20 August 2019, Chicago Booth Review: How to Develop a Superstar Strategy
31 July 2019, MIT Sloan – Ideas Made to Matter: Structured management practices lead to better HR outcomes
27 May 2019, Review of Systems: The importance of management in healthcare
14 May 2019, Entrepreneur: Why Some Founders Fail as CEOs
08 May 2019, DutchNews.nl: Bosses don’t get any better if they earn more than €600,000
01 May 2019, Harvard Business Review: How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward
06 March 2019, Harvard Business Review: Research: Better-Managed Companies Pay Employees More Equally
25 January 2019, Pro-Market: New Empirical Studies Show: When It Comes to Productivity, Management Matters
23 January 2019, City A.M.: Heed the celebrity gurus and teach Britain how to manage
2017
13 September 2017, LSE Business Review, The value of good management
12 September 2017, OECD Development Matters blog: Management and industrialisation in Africa
6 June 2017, Development Impact blog: Are good school principals born or can they be made?
17 May 2017, Vox EU: Adding a piece to the productivity puzzle: Management practices
9 May 2017, Bloomberg Quint: Good mangers, not machines, drive productivity growth
7 May 2017, JDSUPRA.com: 10 questions to operationalizing compliance
19 April 2017, Harvard Business Review: Good management predicts a firm’s success better than IT, R&D, or even employee skills
18 April 2017, MIT Sloan Management Review: The importance of structured management practices
18 April 2017, Harvard Business Review: Reclaim your commute
12 April 2017, Bloomberg View: Here’s one more thing to blame on senior management
11 April 2017, Handelszeitung: Fähige Manager bringen Firmen vorwärts: Das ist der Beweis (Capable Manager advance companies: this is proof)
06 April 2017, BBC Radio 4 – In business: John Van Reenen is interviewed about French producvitity
05 April 2017, Chartered Management Institute: British productivity grows, but more needs to be done
30 March 2017, The Sydney Morning Herald: ‘It’s scary’ – why rungs are disappearing on the wage ladder
23 March 2017, Financial Times: Marginal gains matter but gamechangers transform
22 March 2017, Financial Times: David Brent and Basil Fawlty personify Britain’s hapless managers
13 March 2017, European Central Bank: Moving to the Frontier: Promoting the Diffusion of Innovation (Welcome address by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, at the joint conference by the ECB and the MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy “Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Euro area”)
2015
8 December 2015, Center for American Progress, Helping firms by helping employees? Work-life Balance in America
04 December 2015, Chartered Management Institute, The Economist agrees: the accidental manager’s time is up
03 December 2015, Yahoo Finance, Dans l’industrie, les patrons français moins bons que les patrons allemands
28 November 2015, The Economist, End of the accidental boss
11 November 2015, The Financial Times, Beware the Ozymandias syndrome
05 November 2015, The Wall Street Journal, What is driving inequality: CEO pay or company success?
02 November 2015, Evening Standard, Rohan Silva: As arts’ old guard departs, young turks are great hope for London
06 October 2015, Director, Why flexible working is smart working
06 August 2015, Bloomberg, Diebold’s New Executive Suite
29 May 2015, The Washington Post, Economists have figured out who’s really to blame for exploding income inequality
01 March 2015, Estadão, A Belíndia empresarial brasileira
28 February 2015, The Economist, Brazil’s business Belindia
16 February 2015, The New York Times, In hospitals, board rooms are as important as operating rooms
30 January 2015, Onmedica, Competition among hospitals boosts performance
29 January 2015, The Independent, Daily catch-up: Winter crisis for the NHS – Miliband and Burnham don’t know how to fix it
29 January 2015, Financial Times, Free Lunch: Competition may save your life
29 January 2015, Western Morning News, Labour voters’ NHS satisfaction levels rise
27 January 2015, Medical Daily, Employees’ job satisfaction improved and productivity increased by 13% when working at home
27 January 2015, CBS San Francisco Local News, Stanford Researchers Find Telecommuters More Productive, But Workers At Home May Be More Lonely
27 January 2015, Marketplace.org, Telecommuting is killing the snow day
23 January 2015, Harvard Business Review, A working from home experiment shows high performers like it better
18 January 2015, Financial Times, X factor leadership – do company bosses add value?
09 January 2015, The Times, Calling time on meetings could free executives to do the business
07 January 2015, Obserwator finansowy, We don’t need no (management) education?
2013
24 October 2013, The Agenda, Why we need stronger parties
13 October 2013, The Sydney Morning Herald, Telecommuting has missed the bus
11 October 2013, Irish Times, Better management at helm is key to growth
11 September 2013, Business Spectator, A non-family CEO: invader or savior?
22 July 2013, Brasil Económico, Empresas também precisam de um choque de gestão
02 July 2013, Económico, Choque de Gestão
23 May 2013, Irish Independent, We will lag behind until education matches industry needs
15 May 2013, Wired.com, What Marissa Mayer doesn’t (and does) get about white-collar work
14 May 2013, Financial Times, Chinese lessons for Yahoo’s boss
05 May 2013, Financial Times, What is the best way of innovating for social change?
01 April 2013, The Times, Scientific and productive proof about ‘shirking from home’
18 March 2013, The New Yorker, Face time
14 March 2013, Businessweek, Yahoo work-at-home edict squanders benefits
06 March 2013, Bloomberg, Employees belong in cities, not just in cubicles
26 February2013, The Wall Street Journal, The home office in the spotlight
30 January 2013, The Agenda, The power of good management
11 January 2013, The Wall Street Journal, In defence of the CEO
08 January 2013, The Financial Times, American industry is on the move
2011
01 December 2011, The Daily Telegraph, Family-run firms are Britain’s weak economic link, Family-run firms ‘holding back Britain’s economy’
17 November 2011, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, What role does information technology have in promoting a decentralized organization?
15 November 2011, The Daily Telegraph, NHS reform: ignore ideology and look at the evidence
13 October 2011, The Daily Telegraph, More NHS competition ‘would cut death rate’
07 October 2011, Huffington Post,
05 October 2011, The Economist, The Doctors versus Dave – Round Two
01 October 2011, The Economist, Honey, we shrunk the hospitals
29 September 2011, Health Service Journal, Healthcare without competition is financially unsustainable
13 August 2011, The Economist, American idiocracy
04 August 2011, Business Standard, Management as capital
03 August 2011, Financial Express, India’s manufacturing muddle
28 July 2011, Unlimited Magazine, Why NZ needs to lift management’s game
27 July 2011, Scoop Independent News, Fresh ideas for a productive economy
26 July 2011, Canberra Times, Family-run not wise way to go in business
24 July 2011, The Guardian, When you run a multinational like News Corp as a family fiefdom, expect to run into trouble
12 July 2011, The Christian Science Monitor, Can US management stay ahead of China, India?
11 July 2011, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The MBA Advantage
08 July 2011, Chief Executive, Why are American managers the best in the world?
29 June 2011, National Review Online, A Follow-up on Ramesh’s Union Column
26 June 2011, The Mail, Gadfly
24 June 2011, The Guardian, Competition really does improve the NHS
15 June 2011, Management Process, Management Techniques to Improve Productivity
14 June 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek, Why American Management Rules the World
13 June 2011, Harvard Business Review, Why American Management Rules the World
10 June 2011, Daily Mirror, Why a return to British industrial might is key to growth
25 May 2011, The Financial Times, A much maligned reform of hospitals is working
17 May 2011, Technorati, Are Brits Really the Worst Bosses in the World?
16 May 2011, The New Yorker, Innovative consumption
14 April 2011, Forbes, Are Family-Friendly Workplace Practices Worth Their Money? New Evidence
12 April 2011, El Economista, Un experimento
05 April 2011, Ukeavisen Ledelse, Ledelse har effekt
01 April 2011, Harvard Crimson, Harvard Business School Panelists Examine Health Care Flaws
25 March 2011, Harvard Business Review, Family firms need professional management
22 March 2011, Codestone, ERP software ‘can help workers to become more self-sufficient’
18 March 2011, Strategy & Business, How Information and Communication Technologies Affect Decision Making
17 March 2011, Wiwo.de (Handelsblatt), Experimente in Indien: Was modernes Management bringt
10 March 2011, Business Life, Does Good Management Matter?
16 February 2011, med-kolleg Medizin Machrichten, Wirtschaftlich erfolgreiche Krankenhäuser bieten die bessere Patientenversorgung / Neue McKinsey – Studie “Management in Healthcare”: Wirtschaftlichkeit kein Widerspruch zu guter Versorgung
07 February 2011, IndUS Business Journal, Stanford study uses India to examine productivity
07 February 2011, National Review Online, Jim Manzi on Teacher Evaluations
28 January 2011, Management Issues, Battle hymn of the tiger manager?
21 January 2011, The Financial Times, Welcome to boss-onomics
05 January 2011, BBC Business Daily, And we ask where are the best managed hospitals?
04 January 2011, Ukeavisen-Ledelse, Sykehusledelse-påvirker kvaliteten
2009
01 November 2009, Livemint – The Wall Street Journal, Managers and markets
24 September 2009, The Economist, The pedagogy of the privileged
27 March 2009, Republica, Uomini e senza laurea dirigenti made in Italy
02 March 2009, The Irish Times, Investment in management practice is key to recovery
2007
26 November 2007, Business Week, Time is money – Now see how much
17 November 2007, The New York Times, The M.B.A. under attack
13 November 2007, The Economist, What witch doctors?
12 November 2007, The Irish Times, Best Practice
01 November 2007, The Financial Times, Economists’ rule change puts US on top of the world
21 June 2007, The New York Times, How the U.S. Has Kept the Productivity Playing Field Tilted to Its Advantage
08 October 2007, Independent.ie, Productivity is the way forward for Irish economy
18 September 2007, The New York Times, Handing off the family business
27 August 2007, The American, The decline and fall of declinism
25 August 2007, The Bolton News, Managers’ training is vital says study
21 August 2007, La Vocel, Il gap manageriale del vecchio continente
20 August, 2007, Personnel Today, What can human resources expect from Gordon Brown as Prime Minister
17 August 2007, The Financial TImes – Adviser, Continental Divide: US and Europe
02 August 2007, bytestart.co.uk, We have to stop meeting like this
28 July 2007, Kathimerini, Κακοδιοικούμενη μία στις πέντε επιχειρήσεις στην Ελλάδα
25 July 2007, Taipei Times, Nurturing your own ideas is key to productivity
23 July 2007, Handelsblatt, Familienunternehmen – der entzauberte Mythos
22 July 2007, The Observer, Want to be productive? Grow your own ideas
17 July 2007, Handelsblatt, US-Unternehmen managen am besten
16 July 2007, Handelsblatt, Zufriedene Mitarbeiter sind produktiver
16 July 2007, Diario Economico, Gestores nacionais entre os piores
13 July 2007, Finfacts, UUS firms are on average the best managed followed by Swedish, Japanese and German firms; Greek and Indian firms are the worst
13 July 2007, The Economic Times (India Times), Desi MNC mfrs next only to US
13 July 2007, CIO Insight, India Rates Best, Worst in Management Study
13 July 2007, Baseline, India Rates Best, Worst in Management Study
12 July 2007, The Daily Telegraph, UK’ good at IT despite poorly-managed firms
12 July 2007, The Financial Times, Multinational managers in India rival US for a skill
11 July 2007, The Financial Times – India, Bright young things take multinational path
11 July 2007, The Financial Times, Owners-layabouts
09 July 2007, Exduco, How productivity benefits from competition
3 July 2007, The Wall Street Journal, Risk-loving Americans counter U.S.’s foreign debt
26 June 2007, Hemscott Analyst, UK productivity lags behind France, Germany, US
26 June 2007, VNUNet.com, Lack of innovation is causing UK productivity gap
26 June 2007, The Guardian, Britain narrows productivity gap
25 June 2007, The Financial Times, UK productivity still trails competitors
25 June 2007, In The News, Call for UK productivity improvement
21 June 2007, The New York Times, How has the US kept the productivity playing field to its advantage
06 June 2007, Handelsblatt, Produktivität: Der Chef ist schuld
17 May 2007, The Economist, Use IT or Lose it
03 April 2007, Birmingham Post, A workplace strategy focused on people
21 March 2007, The Financial Times, Race to close productivity gap
06 March 2007, Computer Weekly, Productivity – why can’t the UK keep up?
01 March 2007, Online Recruitment, IrishJobs.ie – benefits of mobile/flexible working will emerge in practice
01 February 2007, The Economist, A lost opportunity
25 January 2007, Gulf News, Successful business needs more than family
2005
29 November 2005, The Times, So much to learn from continental neighbours
31 October 2005, Newsweek, Why bad managers do matter
25 October 2005, The Times, UK’s output lags in retail and financial services
17 October 2005, The Independent, UK tax system turns off investors, report says
14 October 2005, The Register, US firms get more for their IT bucks
12 October 2005, IT Week.com, IT’s business value endorsed
10 October 2005, The Financial Times, It’s the way you do IT
06 October 2005, The Financial Times, Use of technology key to higher productivity
06 October 2005, IT Week.com, US firms make better use of IT
31 October 2005, Newsweek, Why bad managers do matter
15 September 2005, The Financial Times, Time to pay attention to management succession
13 September 2005, The Guardian, British productivity still lagging behind output of American and French workers
08 September 2005, The Independent, David Brent-style managers ‘Have widened UK productivity gap with US’
26 June 2005, The Observer, The age of the Euro customer
23 June 2005, The Times, Good Week…
16 June 2005, Birmingham Post, Manufacturing: UK bosses are worst in Europe says study
15 June 2005, AFX International Focus, UK manufacturing firms held back by poor management – study
09 June 2005, The Economist, A question of management
2022
23 Sep 2022, Cryptonews Crypto Crash Prompts Founder Exodus – Can The Companies They Built Survive and Thrive?
29 Jul 2022, Capital Greek OECD: Prioritizing the development of supporting industries is the right policy
09 Jul 2022, Vietnam Electronic Newspaper Four new studies in the 55th issue of the Economic Bulletin of the Bank of Greece
20 May 2022, LSE Blog: Improving productivity through better management practices
29 March 2022, INSEAD Knowledge: Sales Numbers Are Up? It May Only Be Inflation
14 March 2022, LSE Blog: Do management practices matter in further education?
25 February 2022, Il VOX EU – CEPR: Misallocation explains worse management among Mexican firms
16 January 2022, VOX EU – CEPR: Opening the black box of hospital mergers
2020
17 August 2020, Government Executive: The Missing Management Practice: Linking Metrics to Rewards
20 July 2020, LSE Business Review: Firms closer to universities tend to have better management practices
07 July 2020, Lavoce Info: Better students when the principal is a good manager
01 July 2020, Think – London Business School: How the best business are adapting for survival
11 May 2020, Government Executive: Many agencies aren’t ready to manage in a new world
20 January 2020, Swarajya: How to push MSME entrepreneurs into making it big in business
02 January 2020, Il Sore 24 Ore: Productivity in Italy: a cultural rather than a technological block
01 January 2020, The Financial Times: The impossible task of picking the best leaders
2018
23 November 2018, MoneyWeek: Relative Returns: why you should seek out family-run firms
26 July 2018, FD.nl: Primary education deserves better school management, better teachers and more money (subscription required)
29 May 2018, Forbes: Management Matters For Increasing Firm Productivity
1 March 2018, Campden FB: FB roundup: Rothschild, Berkshire, and family firm management.
21 February 2018, The Wall Street Journal: Forget Stock Buybacks. Here’s Where CEOs Should Invest Their Tax Windfall.
19 January 2018, CNBC: The ‘critically important’ trait that makes a CEO successful, according to a Stanford economics professor
18 January 2018, VoxDev: Management and the wealth of nations
18 January 2018, LSE Business Review: Second-generation family CEOs: are they up to the task?
17 January 2018, Freakonomics Radio: What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?
10 January 2018, The Wall Street Journal: Bigger Companies Once Meant Much Bigger Pay. No More.
3 January 2018, Forbes: Six Ways To Succeed At Remote Work
2016
25 August 2016, The Economist, After freedom, what?
22 August 2016, Bloomberg, The age of the neverending performance review
21 August 2016, The Wall Street Journal, At Kimberly-Clark, ‘Dead Wood’ Workers Have Nowhere to Hide
11 April 2016, CNBC, Just how important is a good boss?
2014
07 December 2014, Vox, We don’t need no (management) education?
12 November 2014, Le Monde, Les entreprises françaises sont peu compétitives parce que mal gérées
01 November 2014, Businessuiteonline, Are Family CEOs Less or More Productive?
25 October 2014, The Washington Post, A company that profits as it pampers workers
22 October 2014, Portland Business Journal, We’re more productive and Happier working from home, so should we do it more often?
16 October 2014, Small Business, Small business and flexibility: friend or foe?
16 October 2014, Dinero en imagen, El futuro de los ejecutivos ante el ascenso de las máquinas
30 September 2014, Live Mint, Management Idea: Family CEOs Work Fewer Hours than Professionals
27 September 2014, The New York Times, Looking at Productivity as a State of Mind
26 September 2014, Finanzen.net, Exzellenz in der Wirtschaftsforschung: EIB-Preis an John Van Reenen und Nicholas Bloom für herausragende angewandte Forschung im Bereich Innovation, Management und Wettbewerb
22 September 2014, US Chamber Foundation, Don’t Send Dilbert to India
19 September 2014, The Financial Times, Pay Pressure
12 September 2014, Handelsblatt, Report von McKinsey: Zehn Management-Trends für die nächsten 50 Jahre
10 September 2014, Business 24, Provocarea viitorului: Cum arata portretul robot al managerului de peste 50 de ani
06 September 2014, The Economist, Schumpeter: Over the horizon
04 September 2014, The Economist, The internship: Generation i
26 July 2014, The Independent, If Hadza nomads get by on 14 hours’ work a week, why can’t we?
25 July 2014, Quartz, How to run a team of people who never see each other
06 June 2014, The Financial Times, Why homeworking is bad for your career
03 June 2014, Corriere della Sera, Il giorno-tipo del capoazienda? Passato a preparare riunioni
29 May 2014, The White House Blog, Leading Academics Discuss Changes in Family Life and Implications for 21st Century Workplaces
29 May 2014, Forbes, 7 Things To Do If You’re Feeling Overwhelmed
22 May 2014, Forbes, It’s not teacher quality or class size, it’s leadership that makes schools successful
20 May 2014, The Guardian, Why school management matters even more than we thought
20 May 2014, LSE USA Politics and Policy Blog, Firms with more structured management practices are more productive, innovative and have faster employment growth
08 May 2014, Philippine Daily Inquirer.net, To professionalize or not?
19 April 2014, The Economist, Brazil’s economy: The 50-year snooze
01 April 2014, US News, When Superstar Executives Become a Company Liability
16 March 2014, The Independent, Bankers don’t deserve their bonuses. They should be taxed and the money used to help our struggling young people
14 March 2014, Compromiso RSE, Los directivos de empresas familiares pasan menos tiempo en el trabajo
04 March 2014, The Wall Street Journal, Do CEOs of Family-Owned Businesses Work Less?
19 February 2014, Economic Voice, Favoured management strategy of UK businesses ‘fatally flawed’
14 February 2014, Business Insider, Here’s Proof That Most Founders Make Bad CEOs
28 January 2014, Human Capital Magazine, Corporate dynasties: The curious case of family CEOs
27 January 2014, Forbes, Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
24 January 2014, Business Insider, Here’s Proof That America Has The Best-Managed Companies In The World
24 January 2014, Viva News (Indonedia), Perusahaan Negara Ini Punya Manajemen Terbaik di Dunia
23 January 2014, First Post, Good management: US cos retain global crown, Indian firms poorly run
17 January 2014, The Economist, Measuring Management
09 January2014, Fox Business, Study: American Firms Get A for Management
2012
21 November 2012, Freakonomics Radio, I Consult, Therefore I Am
11 November 2012, Oman Tribune, Gaining skills of better management
06 November 2012, The Economist, Fighting crime: Italian business schools try to take on the Mafia
29 October 2012, Harvard Business Review, The radical beauty of three simple management practices
16 October 2012, Business Insider, What The Most Successful CEOs Know About Time Management
31 August 2012, The Financial Times, Home workers aren’t (always) shirkersharv
23 August 2012, Freakonomics, There’s Cake in the Breakroom!
07 August 2012, BBC Today, Working from home ‘more productive’
02 June 2012, The Economist, Free exchange: Silicon sally
01 June 2012, The Times, These maternity-leave myths are costing us dear
24 May 2012, Forbes, ‘Can’t believe it’
22 May 2012, National Review, Brief thought on economic dynamism and lessons the private sector might have for the public sector
19 May 2012, The Economist, The endangered public company: The big engine that couldn’t
29 April 2012, The Independent, Will workers take a top-table seat?
26 April 2012, Financial Times, How do highly paid chief executives fill their working hours?
20 February 2012, Forbes India, Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
14 February 2012, The Wall Street Journal, Where’s the Boss? Trapped in a Meeting
30 January 2012, National Review, Let us now praise private equity
30 January 2012, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
02 January 2012, Forbes, Most economics is just organised common sense
2010
21 December 2010, Irish Independent, One-fifth of our small firms are ‘poorly managed’
14 December 2010, Training Zone, New Australian Study Reveals Link Between Management Capability and Business Performance
14 December 2010, CNBC News, Lessons from Indian textile firms: modern management practices can increase productivity – and profits according to Stanford Graduate School of Business Research
12 December 2010, Sunday Times of India, Stanford tips boost desi balance sheets
07 December 2010, The Globe and Mail, Canada’s talent challenge
26 November 2010, Finfacts, Europe has less dynamic business environment than US; European firms grow/ shrink at slower pace
24 November 2010, Policy Review, In need of critical care
13 November 2010, The Financial Times, A case for consultants?
09 November 2010, Market Place, Do middle managers really matter?
04 November 2010, Handelsblatt, Wenn Manager Lebel retten
01 November 2010, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
01 November 2010, Active Quote, Private medical cover customers have access to better-managed hospitals, says report
29 October 2010, Lavoce, Anche i manager hanno le loro colpe
28 October 2010, Pulse, McKinsey: NHS managers ‘least clinically-qualified’ in developed world
27 October 2010, Healthcare Europa, Private sector hospitals are better managed than public, says McKinsey and the Centre for Economic Performance
27 October 2010, British Medical Journal, UK hospitals are better managed than counterparts in Canada, France, Germany, and Italy but not the US, report says
26 October 2010, Health Service Journal, Better NHS management ‘leads to better outcomes’
26 October 2010, Daily Finance, NHS hospitals beat foreign rivals
25 October 2010, Public Finance, Better managed hospitals ‘are most efficient’
21 October 2010, The Economist, How to save lives
16 October 2010, The Washington Post, In Defense of Middle Management
15 October 2010, The Financial Post, In Defense of Middle Management
13 October 2010, Slate, In Defense of Middle Management
09 September 2010, The Economist, Automatic reaction: IT spending has hollowed out labour markets, to the detriment of workers
03 July 2010, The Financial Times, A healthy dose of competition will help the NHS pull through
27 May 2010, CIO, Familienunternehmen sind Flops
15 April 2010, The Economist, A special report on innovation in emerging markets: The power to disrupt
02 April 2010, The New York Times, Technology and Trade
25 March 2010, The Economist, Small island for sale
18 March 2010, The Economist, Slash and earn
03 March 2010, Gazeta do Povo, Empresas do Brasil são mal geridas, diz estudo
26 February 2010, The Times, Researchers point finger at doctors over manipulating figures
25 February 2010, Libertad Digital, ¿Por qué algunas empresas están mejor gestionadas?
22 February 2010, Health Investor, Competition in the NHS has improved services
19 February 2010, The Financial Times, Competition in NHS makes hospitals better, study says
19 February 2010, Health Service Journal, Strong managers ‘improve NHS care’
18 February 2010, Nursing Times, Competition between hospitals improves care, says research
18 February 2010, Public Finance, Better managed NHS trusts ‘have better medical results’
15 February 2010, OnMedica News, Clinically trained managers make for safer hospitals
15 February 2010, The Telegraph, Hospitals more likely to close in safe seats
21 January 2010, The Economist, Another one bites the dust
14 February 2010, The Guardian, Hospitals less likely to shut in marginal seats
2008
15 December 2008, Citizen Economist, Breaking the mold: the U.S. productivity miracle
10 October 2008, Silicon.com, US firms get more out of IT than UK rivals
08 September 2008, The Wall Street Journal, The ‘same ol’ is actually good enough for many
11 August 2008, Livemint – The Wall Street Journal, Does management matter?
02 June 2008, Handelsblatt, Chinesen und inder sind schlechte Manager – noch
15 may 2008, Die Zeit, Asiatische Bosse überschätzen sich oft
13 May 2008, La Repubblica, Classe dirigente, un flop manager e politici superpagati e inefficienti
24 April 2008, Management en consulting, Management practice & productivity: why they matter
13 February 2008, Huffinton Post, The media lucky sperm club
13 February 2008, Business Zone, We have to stop meeting like this
03 February 2008, The Observer, Why too much care for your child can harm society
30 January 2008, BBC News, Handing it down
09 January 2008, Handelsblatt, Familienunternehmen: Der entzauberte Mythos
01 January 2008, Handelsblatt, Gute Noten für deutsche Manager
2006
21 June 2006, NeuöZürcörZäitung, Grossbritannien ist (fast) immun gegen denWirtschafts-Patriotismus
09 June 2006, Remarks by Ben S Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System
29 May 2006, Handelsblatt, In der Balance
22 April 2006, Tagess Piegel, Besseres Management macht glücklich: Britische Studie erforscht die “Work-Life-Balance”
11 April 2006, The Australian, Smart foreign firms get the better of British
10 April 2006, The Financial Times, Feel the benefits of foreign ownership
06 April 2006, The Independent, Sir Terry Leahy: Public companies can learn lessons from family firms
27 March 2006, The Washington Post, Why U.S. business is winning
19 March 2006, The Independent, Roger Trapp: The dangers of keeping it in the family when choosing management personnel
15 March 2006, The Financial Times, Family-run businesses ‘perform poorly’
28 February 2006, The Independent, ‘Red tape as bad, if not worse, in America’ claims study
27 February 2006, Newsweek International, Forget all the talk of equal opportunity. European omen can have a job—but not a career
25 January 2006, The Financial Times, A productivity prescription: how the US has pulled away from Europe and Japan
19 January 2006, The Times, A happy medium is best in life matters
19 January 2006, Western Morning News (Plymouth), Getting work-life balance can be an alien concept
17 January 2006, The Financial Times, UK productivity gap with US grows
16 January 2006, The Daily Telegraph, The truth about work: where sport is, business will follow
12 January 2006, The New York Times, American companies show an edge in putting information to work
10 January 2006, The Financial Times, Work-life balance called into question
10 January 2006, The Evening Standard, Big firms best at work balance
10 January 2006, The BBC News, ‘Bigger the better’ for workers
09 January 2006, The Washington Post, What Democrats miss in Bushonomics