Management Science and Operations
by Cambridge University
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Description
A series of inspirational interviews and podcasts from the Judge Business School
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Conflict and change - Dr George Olcott | Dr George Olcott's new book Conflict and Change: Foreign Ownership and the Japanese Firm takes a look at the challenges that beset modern Japanese corporations as they try to adapt to a globalised environment. Dr Olcott gets to the heart of the debate. | 2/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leadership in action | Leadership in action: Lord Dennis Stevenson is Chairman of HBOS, the UK's largest mortgage and savings provider, and until recently was Chairman of Pearson, the world's largest educational publisher and owner of The Financial Times. He is a member of the Judge Business School Advisory Board and is also Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission. As part of the Cambridge Leadership Seminars, he told MBA students how he got started on his high flying career, why he thought Britain was pulling out of the recession, and urged them to consider jobs both in enterprise and in the public sector. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The logic of luck | The logic of luck: today's ICT revolution is changing the way corporations, governments and non-profits are organised. The pyramid hierarchy is being replaced by a complex network of nodes where command and control has little leverage. Successful leaders will now be those who can demonstrate collaborative skills, achieving results by working with their peers; influencing, seducing and convincing them. They also need to have a friend in Lady Luck. Professor Arnoud De Meyer explains the role business schools need to play in this cultural shift. | 6/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Does Britain need a car industry? | Dr Matthias Holweg explains why the UK government needs to stop its ambivalent attitude towards the declining UK car industry, which although still competitive, is very fragile. It needs to fight for it now if it wants to save it and retain a balanced economy. If not, it faces having an economy built solely on the services industries, which as Dr Holweg points out, is a dangerous strategy as the recent crisis shows. | 6/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Managing the leaders | In these credit crunch times, organisations need to be able to act smarter and effectively do more with the less. Highly motivated and talented people will therefore be at a premium. However, what makes these individuals creative and innovative can also make them tricky to manage. So, how should organisations best maximise these volatile and strong willed premium resources? Dr Mark de Rond, drawing on his unique research into the team dynamics of the Cambridge boat team, offers advice on how to resolve the tensions that naturally arise in high performance teams. | 6/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smart factories create competitive advantage for global manufacturers | A new model for understanding how multinationals can gain a competitive edge from their manufacturing networks has been created as a result of a recent study by Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Judge Business School, and Professor Ann Vereecke and Professor Roland Van Dierdonck of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The art of asking the right question, not the science of giving the right answer | Has risk modelling and risk management lost its way? Professor Stefan Scholtes argues that contrary to popular belief, the risk management models in use today are not too simple - they are in fact far too complex. The goal of risk modelling, he says, is not and should never be to replicate a complex reality in a complex model. The fundamental flaw in using risk modelling in this way has been clearly revealed by the banking crisis. What we need, he argues, is a complementary balance between modelling and intuition; models that relate to and enforce our mental abilities, not replace them. | 5/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leaning towards a transformation | In the current contracting economy, the pressure to achieve better cost savings is higher than ever. In the fourth edition of The Lean Toolbox Dr Matthias Holweg and his co-author John Bicheno provide a no nonsense, no waffle explanation of the dynamic evolution of lean from its roots in manufacturing to its adaptation to product development, service and even healthcare operations. Dr Holweg explains why lean, and its ability to improve the customer value proposition, can be also provide a longer term cost benefit to any organisation. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lies lies and more lies | Deception in organisations can start with a few 'bad apples' but the rot often spreads much wider and deeper. New research from Dr Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos reveals how apparently good people - churchgoers in Enron's case - can gradually become corrupt, sometimes as a result of social pressures within the organisation. | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 9 Episodes |
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