What constitutes effective corporate strategy in a world of regulatory and technological uncertainty? It seems odd, given the premise of our course, to see an article in 2015 in Harvard Business Review suggesting that firms need an innovation strategy. One might … Continued
Like many of the other issues discussed over the course of TP1, it is important not to overstate the novelty of our current circumstance. The ability of the state (and non-state actors) to spy on citizens is hardly a historical … Continued
Every time a new president (or prime minister or CEO) assumes power he or she will receive many unsolicited memos from all quarters in an effort to try to influence them at an early stage. This is a classic example of … Continued
Concern over the dangers of multinationals is not new. Read anything on the subject by Ray Vernon (Sovereignty at Bay (1971) Storm over the Multinationals (1977), Beyond Globalism (1989), In the Hurricane’s Eye (1998)) or, more recently, Dani Rodrik (Has Globalization … Continued
Mariana Mazzucato has deservedly received extensive media coverage and plaudits (e.g., Martin Wolf in the FT or Richard Cooper in Foreign Affairs) for her important 2013 book The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths. If you have not read … Continued
For the past weeks, AT&T had been in advanced merger talks with Time Warner and today (Saturday), AT&T reached a deal for $86 billion. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Apple had been in discussions with … Continued
I use the example of the recent agreement to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to raise the question of why policy happens at one time and not another and how action is linked to evidence The evidence (the underlying science) has not … Continued
Apologies for the delay in getting the first blog uploaded. There seems to have been a bit of a snafu since various Cambridge Wordpress accounts had been attacked by hackers. Hopefully this is all sorted now. The danger of writing about the current … Continued
I was not particularly keen to bring up climate change again since we already waded through the gore that is national INDCs. I was inclined to offer a foray into LSE’s excellent series of retrospective evaluations that they conducted for … Continued
This week, we turn to the ubiquitous role that evidence plays in the decision making process. Quite obviously, societal decisions do not simply depend on the weight of the evidence and can turn on ideology, norms, beliefs, history and path dependence, … Continued