Recent stories
Here’s the freshest selection of recent features I’ve had published/broadcast:
MBAs in space: rocket science absorbs business school thinking (Financial Times), How should cities deal with street begging (The Guardian), Online classrooms – virtually like the real thing? (Financial Times), Running out of paper (UK Press Gazette), Online law degrees flourish under tight supervision (Financial Times), The soup revolution: changing cities over dinner, from Detroit to Liverpool (The Guardian), Is fluoride actually good for cities? (The Guardian), France says au revoir to the météo marine (Monocle 24)
Women must unite to maximise success in start-ups (Financial Times), Free Moocs act as try-before-you-buy model (Financial Times), From Berlin’s warehouses to London’s estates: how cities shape music scenes (The Guardian), MBA graduates’ love affair with consultancy endures (Financial Times), Patty Griffin, Sage Gateshead — ‘Heartbreak and joy (Financial Times), Business schools respond to globalisation of luxury sector (Financial Times), Truth behind the ‘vainies, brainies and Bainies’ labels (Financial Times), Traffic lights are so dictatorial (The Guardian), Entrepreneurship classes grow up (Financial Times), Fighting the fatbergs (The Guardian), Why do cities still use glyphosate? (The Guardian), The internet of vulnerable things (Financial Times), How supermarkets choose where to open… and close (The Guardian), University museums enjoy global renaissance (Times Higher Education), Bands of brothers (Financial Times), The virtual assistants who juggle kids and career (Financial Times), Crowdfunded start-up takes to the skies (Financial Times), Smart moves: chess is back (The Guardian), Great Place to Meet: Madinat Jumeirah (Financial Times), Burning Ambition (Weapons of Reason), Outlook on the Global Agenda 2015 (World Economic Forum), Germany warms to the MBA (Financial Times), Passion breeds success (Daily Telegraph), Reinventing the wheel (Daily Telegraph), War for talent goes on (The Guardian), Sewing a fashion team together (Financial Times), Welcome the Northern Correspondent (The Guardian), At the top of his Games (Financial Times), Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014 (World Economic Forum), Austerity measures force a change of tactics for French schools (Financial Times), New models could change shape of social care (The Guardian), Handy hints from the hactivists (Management Today), Comic artists who make radio shows (Monocle 24 Radio)
Jugaad innovation: How to disrupt-it-yourself (Google Think), We’re with stupid (Cass Business School’s InBusiness), Skyscraper’s the limit for furious NYU academics (Times Higher Education), Education goes global (FT Wealth)
And here’s a fuller archive of published work from the last couple of years:
The Guardian
How should cities deal with street begging
The soup revolution: changing cities over dinner, from Detroit to Liverpool
Is fluoride actually good for cities?
From Berlin’s warehouses to London’s estates: how cities shape music scenes
Traffic lights are so dictatorial
Why do cities still use glyphosate?
How supermarkets choose where to open… and close
‘War for talent’ goes on in recruitment
Apprenticeships are just the job
New models could change shape of social care
A pilot scheme for end-of-life support
Strangeways: working prison aims to reduce reoffending
Green degrees target solution to climate change issues
Civil engineering isn’t a just a pipe dream
Redundancy: How to restore balance
Financial Times
MBAs in space: rocket science absorbs business school thinking
Online classrooms – virtually like the real thing?
Graduates reveal the strengths and weaknesses of online degrees
Explosion in data ushers in new high-tech era
Competitors forced to work together to tackle complexity
Online law degrees flourish under tight supervision
French business schools take a global view
Oil and gas workers take refuge on MBA programmes
Women must unite to maximise success in start-ups
Free Moocs act as try-before-you-buy model
MBA graduates’ love affair with consultancy endures
Patty Griffin, Sage Gateshead — ‘Heartbreak and joy
Business schools respond to globalisation of luxury sector
Truth behind the ‘vainies, brainies and Bainies’ labels
Entrepreneurship classes grow up
The internet of vulnerable things
The virtual assistants who juggle kids and career
Crowdfunded start-up takes to the skies
Great Place to Meet: Madinat Jumeirah
Companies want learning tailored more closely to business needs
Salesman puts skills to use building aspiration
Naomi Hewitt of Net-a-Porter finds thread to sew fashion team together
The maths behind Olympic projects
Pay rising for in-demand accountants
Technology start-up hotspots for MBAs
A great awakening – or jobs spam
Masters in Management: just the job
Austerity measures force a change of tactics for French schools
MBA students learn the value of influence
Fluctuations in the cycle business
Yale MBAs engage in legal cannabis venture
Research? Most people cannot understand it
Bogus certificates cost schools time and money
Consultancy projects: a whole new ball game
Entrepreneurs learn to work together on road to Mendeley
Supply chain of information offers vital link
Lessons from management’s wild west
Teachers get ahead of the class
Students start to think about broader social values
Executives are willing to pay the price for knowledge
Schools have final word on plagiarism
Meet the dean (Georgetown’s Professor David Thomas)
Enterprise and ambition meet in Casablanca
Learning the game of social media
Untapped markets lie in the export crosshairs
Enterprising lessons for entrepreneurs
The case of the white-collar criminal
Said fashions a tailor-made entrepreneur
UK schools wary of new visa rules
The Bologna Accord: a revolution by degree
Innovative path for Egypt’s entrepreneurs
The great billionaire giveaway
Grandes écoles face a fresh revolution
Helping hand for GMAT security
Bus maker on a different route
Flying far and wide on the back of airline loyalty
Little luxuries bring consolation to consumers
Checklists offer a cure for many ills
Meetings resolve almighty issue
Daily Telegraph
Great saves: keeping your business costs down
Management Today
Handy hints from the hactivists
How we started up our own free school
Opening up the public service monopoly
InFocus: Change Management (editor)
InFocus: Going Global (editor)
Know your customer, grow your business (video)
How To Do More With Less (video)
InFocus: Competitiveness (editor)
Greening your carbon footprint
Is now the smart time to relocate?
Monocle
Comic artists who make radio shows (broadcast for Monocle 24 radio)
Making the next Silicon Valley (broadcast for Monocle 24 radio)
The no-frills shipping format arrives
Energy required at head of renewables club
Google Think Quarterly
Jugaad innovation: How to disrupt-it-yourself
Times Higher Education
University museums enjoy global renaissance
Skyscraper’s the limit for furious NYU academics
InBusiness (Cass Business School)
Virgin Hotline
You don’t need to be outside to go skiing
easyJet Traveller
Should Governments Stop Pushing Paternity Leave?
Should Contraflow Cycling Be Allowed?
Should There be an Age When Retirement is Compulsory?
Should Swiss banking laws be overhauled?
Should the Rich Pay for Healthcare?
Is boss-napping a protest too far?
Jetaway
Looking Up – northern cities supercharging their economies
Gulf Life
VLM Velocity