01 Dec 1992
UK: Slow burn for learning - MBA. - The period of heady growth for MBA courses has come to an end. Now business schools must adjust their courses to the new needs of the 1990s.
01 Dec 1992
| by David Morton.
UK: The other side of TQM. - What was life like before total quality management, customer care, downsizing, outsourcing, the corporate mission statement and the evolution of the flip-chart as an essential aid to executive thought? For those too young to
01 Dec 1992
UK: Profile - Sir Desmond Pitcher. - Chris Blackhurst talks to a man who deserves his Mister Merseyside nickname.
01 Dec 1992
UK: Editorial - How to grow. - If it were possible to design an economy from scratch, how should it differ from the modern British economy? What kind of institutions should it have, how big should its public sector be, relative to the total economy, and
01 Dec 1992
UK: IMCO's global perspective. - Antony Brown, the winner of IM's annual essay competition, talks to the chief executive of IMCO, Graham Stanford, about the firm's philosophy.
01 Dec 1992
UK: A Nobel theory with noble intentions. - Consider the logic of the following argument. This year's Nobel Prize for economics was won by the distinguished US academic, Gary Becker. One of the planks of his theorising has been a belief that racial discr
01 Dec 1992
UK: Just desserts for RHM. - Revenge, as Toady pere was wont to say, is sweet: but revenge with a majority shareholding thrown in is positively saccharine. Consider, friends, the case of Dr John Randall, ex-mastermind of one of the UK's great postwar suc
01 Dec 1992
UK: Big business is bountiful. - Yes, Christmas is upon us once again: the distant ring of sleighbells, the clatter of reindeer's hooves on snow-clad roofs, the gimlet-eyed scrutiny of the financial bottom line in tinselled boardrooms up and down the lan
01 Dec 1992
UK: Cultivating a taste for foreign erotica. - One ineluctable proof of the inferiority of the French has, it seems to Toady, been their habit of eating innocent amphibians. Now - horreur - a UK businessman has started a firm, Britsnail, with the aim of
01 Dec 1992
Usa: On how to make friends in high places. - Toady's attention has been drawn to a document scurrilously circulating in Washington during the recent election. Addressed to ex-President Reagan's assassin manque, John Hinkley, it reads: "Dear John, Barbar