Management Education as a Defence against the Dark (Commercial) Arts
Nigel Krishna Iyer, Independent Fraud and Corruption Investigator and Teaching Fellow at the School, discusses the rationale underpinning the new CPD course Defence against Fraud and Corruption. As a fraud and corruption investigator I’ve travelled the world, delving into murky financial corners, interviewing informants and whistle blowers, confronting criminals, and even sifting through offices and trash […]
Increasing the Retirement Age won’t solve the Pensions Crisis
Jo Grady, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at the School, responds to George Osbourne’s Autumn Statement, particularly on its proposal to increase the retirement age to 70. Speaking on LBC 97.3 today (December 5th, 2013), in defence of the coalition government’s decision to increase the retirement age to 70, Deputy Prime Minister […]
The Marketplace of Life? The Political-Economy of Emergent Water Markets
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives (American Indian Saying) In 1776 Adam Smith introduced the paradox of value: diamonds are much more expensive than water, even though water is essential to human survival. Smith’s paradox, at that time, appealed to his contemporaries as little other than a […]
Buy Nothing Day: Critical Management in Action
On the day after Black Friday, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, discusses the goals and history of ‘Buy Nothing Day’. Saturday 30 November is ‘Buy Nothing Day’, an annual one-day event that invites us to step off the shopping treadmill and think critically about the place of […]
Job Security in the Public Sector is Dwindling
Professor Stephen Wood, co-author of the latest Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) Report, “Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession”, suggests the Government’s austerity programme will have more effect than the recession has had. The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) of 2011 shows that there has been a marked rise in feelings of job insecurity […]
Anarchism and/or Management?
Management and anarchism have something very superficial in common – most people loathe them. Nevertheless, on Tuesday the 29th of October, a workshop held at the School’s Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy explored what else can be said about this most peculiar of intersections. The event featured talks from Liam Barrington-Bush, author of Anarchists […]
What are Social Studies of Finance (SSF)?
Yuval Millo joined the School of Management in September 2012 as Professor of Social Studies of Finance and Accounting. He is a leading figure in the emergent field of Social Studies of Finance, a field which Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia, a PhD Researcher at the School, interviewed him about very recently. Within this series of four […]
Management is too Important Not to Debate
Higher Education providers have experienced much less turbulent times than these. The stormy climate within contemporary United Kingdom Higher Education, for its part, is presided over by a coalition government which, for many, has over-hastily introduced poorly-considered policies that have largely served to foster, rather than reverse, or even hasten, the much longer drawn out […]
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