The pandemic of untruths spread by Facebook and social media may be as much of a danger as the coronavirus

Levelling up is a worthy ambition – unfortunately it is also a more complicated challenge than it looks

Covid-19 has dealt a devastating blow to the conventional management model and its inhuman assumptions

Instead of using the crisis to reset, too many companies are simply defaulting to their bad old ways

Management history needs to take account of the slave trade

There is more to Hanson’s demerger than the mortality of two ageing predators. Logical to the last, Hanson illustrates with unusual clarity the dead end of Eighties red-meat capitalism.  What went wrong? After all, for all its unfashionableness, Hanson demonstrates considerable management virtues. For instance, contrary to much punditry, Hanson understands more about management focus than most of its confreres in…

Hanson arouses strong passions. Over the years the market has loved it, happily sanctioning its claims to be able to extract more value from targeted companies than incumbent management. Critics, on the other hand, charge that in the building, as opposed to the extraction, of value, Hanson is mediocre: in concentrating on short-term returns to…