Simon Caulkin

Most acquisitions fail. But some serial acquirers succeed time and time again. Why?

Management is stuck. MLab, brainchild of LBS professors Gary Hamel and Julian Birkinshaw, aims to unstick it.

It is naive and dangerous to sleepwalk into a world where gathering, processing and sorting personal data is no longer just an overlay, like CCTV cameras, but a part of life’s basic infrastructure, without debate or understanding what it means.

Many companies practice deception as a part of their business model – sometimes without even knowing it.

Joseph Heller’s brilliant, excoriating 1961 novel, set on a fictional US airbase in the Second World War, was always about capitalism as much as war. But to read it again is to be struck by how much nature has come to resemble art.

Britain’s supposedly flexible economy consistently lags those we scorn, like France and Germany

Reputation has become a new source of anxiety where organisational identity and economic survival are at stake. And if everything may impact on organisational reputation, then reputational risk management demands the risk management of everything.

Philip Kogan’s independent publishing house has survived for 40 years in a business ruled by the global corporates.

‘Deliverology’ is the horrible name of the techniques devised to make New Labour’s public-service reforms stick. It has proved just as horrible in practice.

ICI’s history is full of painful ironies, the most poignant of which is that its eclipse is entirely home-made. The brutal truth is that ICI has imperilled its independence by dutifully complying with the approved nostrums of financial management over the