Green jobs are the way to avoid a decade of decline for towns dependent on airport employment.
- Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
I published a book on what life might look like after the crisis. It already feels out of date.
A medieval historian and business studies expert discuss how pandemics past and present impact on big business.
The gradual withdrawal of state support for universities has been the largest, and quietest, privatisation in UK history, and most people don’t even know about it.
An exciting announcement about upcoming plans – and we revisit an old favourite episode.
Our ‘Tony Stark’ image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.
Ken Starkey defends the importance of business schools, while Martin Parker says ‘bring in the bulldozers’.
It is easy to forget that the James Bond franchise is firmly set in the world of work. Bond’s evolution reflects changing attitudes to the workplace.
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In this episode we look at historical visions of the future and how accurate they were, the future of work, and what it's like to predict the future for a day job.
All the politicians and journalists claim to care about Stoke, but none of them live here.
They may not be the Illuminati but there is a different kind of conspiracy at play at the secretive annual Bilderberg meeting of global elites.
The strange history of how the Bank of England came into being.
Is the recent exposé of the harsh working conditions at Amazon all that surprising?
A number of business school academics are increasingly sceptical about the values and purposes of management education and are becoming more confident in saying so.
With more than 250,000 employees, spread over 80 countries, how can HSBC’s bosses know everything going on?
One of the oldest assumptions about organising comes directly from the angels. In the 5th century, the mysterious theologian Pseudo-Dionysius wrote the definitive book on angelic hierarchies, Ecclesiastical…
As winter arrives and the modest charms and innuendo of The Great British Bake Off end, it’s time for Alan Sugar’s parade of narcissism as the tenth series of The Apprentice begins. The show is a big earner…
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has proposed a plan to stop companies from avoiding billions of dollars in taxes. As we know from the scandals surrounding Amazon, Starbucks, Vodafone…
A huge criminal investigation is underway in the Netherlands, following the downing of flight MH17. Ten Dutch prosecutors and 200 policemen are involved in collecting evidence to present at the International…
Skyscrapers always provoke some extreme reactions, and the sale of London’s Gherkin as a result of the bankruptcy of one of its current owners is no exception. For a century, ever since the property explosions…
In Italy, the word dietrologia, literally “behindology”, expresses the idea of a search for hidden secrets, and the exposure of secret plots. The main characters are usually the Mafia, politicians, the…
President Business is a bad guy. We know that because he is the chief executive of the Octan Corporation. He also has bad hair, control issues, and transforms into the evil tyrant Lord Business who – together…
The Confederation of British Industries (CBI) has claimed the UK is seeing not just any economic growth, but “the right kind of growth”. But if there a right kind of growth, then there must be the wrong…
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