Posted by: Pegram Harrison on January 27, 2016
“The business of business is business”—right? Well, maybe. But Milton Friedman’s glib comment needn’t be taken at face value. What does “business” mean? Can it not do more than just maximising shareholder value or pursuing profit? How much more, and more in what way, and what kind of more—those questions remain. But if you want […]
Read more Posted by: Pegram Harrison on January 20, 2016
Saïd Business School aims to make the wider intellectual richness of Oxford available to its students and staff in various ways by engaging with ideas, activities, and scholarship from the humanities. The work of historians, philosophers, classicists, as well as the study of literature and artefacts from diverse cultures and traditions, can shed light on […]
Read more Posted by: Pegram Harrison on February 24, 2016
Case studies are an import element of almost every business school course and programme. They have been a key teaching method since the start of formal business education in the 1910s. Pioneered at Harvard Business School, they rapidly spread to more or less every other school, in almost every subject of the business curriculum, and […]
Read more Posted by: Pegram Harrison on February 24, 2016
Few universities are older than Oxford, but the Università di Bologna is most certainly one of them. Founded in 1088, it is the Alma Mater Studiorum, the nourishing mother of intellectual study, and the oldest continually operating university in the world. Bolgona provided a very suitable location for a conference on Managing Cultural Organisations, being such an organisation itself and running one […]
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