LUMS in the News
Setting the tone at the top: Financial Executives International features book by Jan Pfister
Published 3 February 2012
Dr Jan Pfister, of Lancaster's Department of Accounting and Finance, has had his book Managing Organizational Culture for Effective Internal Control featured in an issue alert by the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), the research arm of Financial Executives International (FEI).
The Independent: 'The digital enlightenment has already begun'
Published 25 January 2012
Dr Frank Cave, director of Lancaster's MSc in E-Business and Innovation, and Benjamin Wirtz, a graduate of the programme, are both quoted in an article in The Independent on business courses for budding entrepreneurs. "Don't imitate or repeat; be original and find a niche," says Cave.
FT: 'How to be boss not friend'
Published 23 January 2012
Professor Cary Cooper is quoted in the FT's regular 'Careerist' column on humane management: "When you have to give staff bad news, they’re more likely to take it well if they know you care."
CITY AM: 'Latest evidence shows many MBA students earn back tuition costs quickly'
Published 19 January 2012
MBA Career Development Manager Cana Witt is quoted on the CITY AM website, describing people's motivation for doing an MBA: "It's interesting to note how many of the reasons are people-related, perhaps through being blocked, or ignored, or unmotivated, or over-worked, or the working relationship with the boss."
Harvard Business Review: 'How Earlobes Can Signify Leadership Potential'
Published 13 January 2012
Professor Mike West, of Lancaster's Centre for Performance-Led HR, is one of the authors of an article in HBR which argues that people with subtle bodily asymmetries are often better transformational leaders.
Sue Smith featured in Times Higher Education on LEAD
Published 13 January 2012
IEED's Sue Smith is quoted in this weeks Times Higher Education, following her talk at The Engage HEI Conference.
Judi Marshall featured as 'Professor of the Week' by the Financial Times
Published 13 January 2012
Judi Marshall is the FT's 'Professor of the Week' from 12 January 2012. The FT describes Prof Marshall's research expertise in leadership for sustainability.
HR Magazine: "Compassionate absence management can 'significantly impact' on employer brand, report finds"
Published 10 January 2012
HR magazine comments on a new report by Elipse, written in association with Professor Cary Cooper, which finds that a compassionate approach to absence management can have a significant impact on an employer’s reputation.
CFO World: 'Will excessive executive pay be curbed?'
Published 4 January 2012
CFO World quotes professor Steve Young in an article about concerns over executive pay. "The last thing anyone wants to see is politicians capping pay," he says.
Changeboard.com: 'How can HR be the moral conscience of the board?'
Published 4 January 2012
Changeboard.com features Professor Cary Cooper in a Q&A session on how HR can change the boardroom agenda to create a thriving, healthy, happy and engaged place to work.
Business Reporter: 'Analyse, define and motivate'
Published 3 January 2012
Dr Winston Kwon, of the Lancaster Centre for Strategic Management, is quoted in Business Reporter magazine - distributed with the Sunday Telegraph - on 'strategy execution'.
Steve Young is 'Professor of the Week' in the Financial Times
Published 3 January 2012
The FT profiled Professor Steve Young on 29 December. Prof Young is contributing to 'FT Lexicon', an online glossary of business-related terms.
The Guardian: 'Brazil beckons'
Published 20 December 2011
The Guardian has published a letter by Professor Bill Cooke arguing that it's time the media stopped portraying South America's leading economy as 'fantasy criminal Brazil'.
Sunday Times: 'Falling inflation starts to ease Britain's misery'
Published 20 December 2011
An opinion piece by David Smith in the Sunday Times quotes research by Professor David Peel and colleagues in the Economics Department at Lancaster University Management School, which compares the decisions of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) with the 'shadow MPC' set up by the Institute of Economic Affairs.
EN Magazine: 'Passing on a family business'
Published 19 December 2011
Allan Discua-Cruz is quoted in a feature in EN Magazine about succession planning in family businesses: "One of the key ingredients is that the successor must be committed and willing to take over and, at the same time, the founders must acknowledge it will perhaps be at the successor's discretion whether they take the family firm where the founder's dream was – and it might not happen that way," he says.
FT: The trouble with Keynesian 'make-work' plans
Published 15 December 2011
The FT published a letter by GR Steele on 8 December 2011, in which he says that 'the Keynesian argument - that higher levels of employment and income generate tax revenues to offset debt - is fallacious.
The Times: 'Mix it up for the best results'
Published 15 December 2011
A story in The Times on diversity in the workplace references research by Lancaster's Centre for Performance-Led HR, which found that customer satisfaction levels were, on average, 20 per cent higher in McDonald's restaurants that employ staff aged over 60.
The Times: 'A revolution with a human face'
Published 15 December 2011
Paul Sparrow, director of the Centre for Performance-Led HR, is quoted in a feature in The Times on the importance for businesses of having an engaged and constructive workforce. "Competitive forces are requiring organisations to take control of the skills supply chain through the use of more forward planning. Strategic workforce planning is aimed at identifying the characteristics of human capital needed to achieve a strategic objective and then scaling the activities needed."
The Guardian: 'Do work placements pay?'
Published 9 December 2011
Chris Saunders, director of the Lancaster full-time MBA, is quoted in a story in The Guardian about the value of work placements on MBA programmes. "In recent years we've seen an increase in the number of students getting jobs from these placements. Companies are saying they prefer our students to hiring consultants," says Saunders.
FT: 'How I made it: Nahed Taher'
Published 5 December 2011
The FT profiles LUMS economics PhD graduate, Nahed Taher, the chief executive of Gulf One Investment Bank, and a regular visitor to Lancaster University Management School.
The Independent: 'It's about the money... isn't it?'
Published 2 December 2011
Chris Saunders, director of the Lancaster Full-time MBA, is quoted in an article in The Independent on MBA programmes: "The MBA has always been a programme to develop people for general leadership positions in senior management. It follows that you need to acquire broad knowledge by looking across the whole field of business rather than focusing on one area."
The growing influence of the Lancaster MBA alumni network
Published 29 November 2011
BusinessBecause has published a feature article on Lancaster MBA graduate Fredrik Sandvall, who talks about the value of the Lancaster MBA alumni network.
The Times: 'Policeman boosts his academic armoury'
Published 16 November 2011
Police officer Ian Hesketh, who completed an Executive MBA at LUMS, talks about his experience on the Lancaster MBA in a feature in The Times: "I loved it. The people, the learning environment; it opens your eyes. It's completely refreshing. I really benefited from it personally and hopefully it will benefit my career as well."
Computerworld: '10 things for CFOs to worry about in 2012'
Published 15 November 2011
Professor Geraint Johnes is quoted in an article in Computerworld, on dealing with the sovereign debt crisis: "If an orderly exit of some economies from the euro cannot be negotiated, then fiscal integration that goes substantially beyond the existing proposals is needed," says Prof Johnes.
Edge Online: 'From strategy to reality'
Published 9 November 2011
Professor Julia Balogun, director of Lancaster's Centre for Strategic Management, is quoted in a feature in The Edge Online, on the difficulties senior managers face in communicating a new strategy: "They need to get their employees to buy into the organisation's change agenda and know how to present that agenda so that they understand it and link it to their own objectives."
The Ecologist: 'Can we keep the politics and science of climate forecasting separate?
Published 3 November 2011
Ecologist magazine, investigating the accuracy of climate forecasting, quotes new research by the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting into the accuracy of forecasting methods: "My research revealed the limited availability of 'proper' forecasts from these climate models, yet we are risking the world on them. The whole thing is based on a set of forecasts – for example, how high should our flood defences be? – and we need to know how accurate they are," says the Centre's director, Professor Robert Fildes.
CFO World: 'Investor relations management in troubled times'
Published 1 October 2011
Professor Steve Young is quoted in a story in CFO World looking at investor relations in the current period of troubled financial markets. "You can't really invent an investor relations strategy overnight," he says. "Effective strategies develop over a period of time during which the company establishes a relationship of trust with analysts and investors," says Professor Young.
