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"CSR initiatives may result from leaders’ personal needs for attention and image reinforcement and be less strategic for their organizations in terms of financial performance and focus. Oleg V. Petrenko, Federico Aime and Aaron D. Hill, Oklahoma State University: Jason W. Ridge, Clemson University, South Carolina. Strategic Management Journal, 37(2), 262-279. Researchers … have examined a variety of explanations for m...

“Hubris has a nasty habit of breeding disaster, particularly when combined with oodles of cheap debt.” Gillian Tett, Ft.com > FT Magazine, 8 April 2016 “...in 1990 the Japanese bubble burst, unleashing a financial crisis. “...so far this year, Chinese companies have bid $100bn for overseas acquisitions, almost as much as they spent in all of 2015 (which was a record). And the fee-hungry American mergers and ...

"It was … up there with Lloyds’ merger with HBOS or Royal Bank of Scotland’s acquisition of ABN Amro in the roll call of disastrously ill-judged takeovers. Jeremy Warner The Telegraph: Business (online) 2 April 2016 "...it was frankly obvious to virtually everyone other than Tata Steel itself, and its massed ranks of fee hungry investment bankers, that the company was buying a pig in a poke when it acquired Corus, together w...

“Given loss-making Tesla’s history of missed deadlines, this target needed to be met to earn the faith of consumers and investors alike BBC News: technology (online) 5 April 2016 “Tesla Motors has revealed that supplies of its Model X electric car have been impacted by a shortage of parts meaning delays for some who have ordered them. “… It was frank about the reasons for the delay: "The root causes of the p...

"Can a coach or mentor change the behaviour of a destructive organisational sociopath? This practitioner says no. Comments taken from an edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Bottom Line’ called ‘Lonely at the Top: What goes on between a manager and his or her coach?’ First broadcast 17 March 2016 Host Evan Davies with guests Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT Group; Melanie Richards, Vice Chairman and Partner o...