Category Archives: Good Reading

What They Teach You at Harvard Business School

‘My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism’ by Philip D Broughton An interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal this month stated that of the 9000 applicants for the Harvard Business School MBA programme each year, only 12% are … Continue reading

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Four Pillars interviewed for Times SCM supplement

This month The Times published Supply Chain 2012, a 16-page supplement on the big issues and trends facing those involved in procurement and supply chain. The report covered procurement, risk, collaboration, SRM, logistics, sustainability and finance, with David Atkinson commenting … Continue reading

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‘The Corporation’ by Joel Bakan

This is less of a review of the book than of the accompanying documentary (I started reading the book but gave up once the DVD arrived, rendering it superfluous). Make your own mind up about which you choose. This book/film … Continue reading

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