Leo Cremonezi

Power in the home, working in groups, and getting comfortable with uncertainty

Taylor Swift, the philosophy of AI, and imagining an anti-capitalist business school

Learn how this year’s EMBA table was compiled and the criteria assessed

The business of femtech, taming artificial intelligence, and personal efficiency for the 2020s

The science and art of risk, understanding young people, and the unrecognised workforces powering AI

It is a brave person who takes on the cult of change, at whose altar most of the world’s corporate advisers and many of their board-level clients like to worship. But this stylishly written dissection of the worst of modern corporate mismanagement has an entertaining crack at tearing down the cult’s false idols. As Ashley Goodall points out, large-scale change “once triggered, takes on a life of its own”. It rips through the established relationships and rituals that make work worthwhile, leavi…

Business education has undergone significant transformation in recent years and this is no different for MBAs delivered online. The application of advanced technology and a more tailored learning experience are reshaping the sector, but it is benefits such as flexibility, lower cost and a better work-life balance compared with a traditional MBA that are attracting students. For the second consecutive year, IE Business School in Spain came first in the Financial Times ranking of online MBAs. Fac…

As Facebook’s 30th employee, Noah Kagan was once sitting on 0.1 per cent of company stock worth about $1bn today. Then in 2006 he was fired. After eight months moping on a friend’s couch, Kagan realised he had been “liberated” by his failure. “It lit a fire under my ass to get going on my own,” he writes. In Million Dollar Weekend, Kagan now wants to light a fire under yours. Kagan went on to launch eight million-dollar businesses and the aim of his book is to share his methodology. But first,…

Jennifer Sundberg & Pippa Begg have spent a lot of time thinking about how boardrooms can function better. But as co-CEOs of Board Intelligence — an online portal where company directors can view, comment, and collaborate on important documents — they have realised that the decisions made at the top of a company are the minority of all of those taken in a typical workplace. As they say in their new book Collective Intelligence: “To be successful, businesses need to think well and act fast at ev…

Highlighting some of the schools that performed and progressed strongly in 2022