Business School Briefing: Enron lessons, next ranking, EMBA salaries

Superior afternoon from London. 20 years following the collapse of power team Enron, reminiscences of the scandal are fading. How would you remind executives to keep away from a repeat of earlier corporate mistakes. Also, the upcoming FT Organization Education position is upon us.

Created and edited by Wai Kwen Chan and Andrew Jack.

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FT enterprise publications

From the politicisation of the workplace to implementing approach in hard occasions, listed here are the leading titles for November and December.

FT European Organization Schools 2021 position

It’s that time of calendar year again and we are not conversing about Xmas. On December 6 Monday, we will expose the leading enterprise universities in Europe primarily based on their effectiveness in a variety of rankings. Seem out for this on rankings.ft.com/dwelling/regional-rankings and read our protection on ft.com/european-enterprise-universities. The initially story was printed this morning and appeared at what can enterprise universities instruct a spouse and children firm?

Be a part of us for the FT’s ‘Future of Organization Education: Spotlight on MBA’

We will be keeping a virtual celebration on Feb 23 Wednesday 2022 with FT Editorial and leading enterprise universities sharing insights about the FT MBA position, liable enterprise schooling, innovation and the foreseeable future of the MBA in a submit Covid-19 globe. Register for totally free on: https://businesseducation.reside.ft.com.

Organization college professor advisers sought

We are fascinated in listening to from enterprise universities and their professors eager to assist as advisers, figuring out pertinent FT articles that is helpful in their instructing and research and supporting locate methods to share it. Get in contact at [email protected].

Be a part of our Future of Get the job done reside celebration

The ultimate installment in the FT’s Future of Get the job done sequence will attribute a blend of interviews, panels and practical workshops to equip you with the skills and information to prosper in a new globe of work. Register now for this celebration — using place on December 1 from 9.30 to 14.30 GMT.

Andrew Hill’s management challenge

Enron submitted for bankruptcy twenty years in the past this 7 days. As I create in my column, today’s board directors will need to know about this scandal and many others, simply because, as the scandal fades in memory, the possibility that they repeat old errors will increase.

At the ten-calendar year anniversary of Enron’s collapse, I instructed directors should maintain a copy of the group’s hubristic last letter to shareholders on their desks, like Renaissance students held a skull to remind them of their mortality.

For my management challenge, propose at minimum a single way in which directors and executives may well be nudged to remember this and other corporate cautionary tales? An yearly “Enron day”? A basic calendar reminder? An on the net system in corporate failure? Deliver your tips to [email protected].

Previous 7 days I questioned for recommendations of a intricate product or service or company ripe for simplification. On Twitter, @PaddingtonCares arrived up with a worthy prospect: the regulation and issues course of action in social housing, which is “in dire will need of overhaul”. The tweet states: “It will take considerably as well lengthy to deliver outcomes, and is as well challenging for many to access.”

In more studying this 7 days, I hugely commend extracts from the 3 proposals that are by means of to the ultimate of the FT/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize this calendar year. The winner will be declared on December 1 (and you can sign up for the fun on the net), but in the meantime enjoy insights into cyber security, the foreseeable future of increased schooling, and the combat in opposition to weather transform, from, respectively, Manuel Hepfer, Ines Lee and Eileen Tipoe, and Melissa Zhang. The £15,000 prize will be on give again upcoming calendar year, so if you have good enterprise book tips and will however be less than 35 upcoming November, appear out for it.

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Every single calendar year, alumni from universities using section in the FT EMBA position expose their income progress. Present salaries display there is however a pay gap concerning male and feminine alumni, with adult males reporting, on typical, a foundation income of $twenty,000 a lot more than women, create Sam Stephens and Leo Cremonezi.

Feminine alumni, nonetheless, have a larger percentage income raise when compared to their male counterparts in spite of the considerable pay gap. More than the 3 years since finishing their research, feminine alumni salaries rose by 64 per cent, on typical, when compared with the degrees ahead of they begun their EMBA, whereas it is sixty one per cent for males. Feminine graduates from Asia-Pacific boast the biggest typical income raise of all alumni at seventy eight per cent.

Bar chart of Current wage increase of alumni salaries from before their EMBA  compared with now, split by gender and location showing Executive MBA female alumni have a higher percentage salary increase compared to their male counterparts

More investigation of the FT’s EMBA position can be uncovered listed here.

Get the job done and occupations roundup

  • We have all noticed colleagues who are bluffing, having not finished their homework. In this article are methods to location all those who are ‘winging it’ at work.

  • Following overcoming ageist setbacks in their occupations, two friends kickstarted instruction programmes with global ambitions. Discover out how to prosper as a mid-everyday living female in the creative industries.

In 2021, Jane Evans (left) and Carol Russell, printed a book named ‘Invisible to Invaluable: Unleashing the Electric power of Mid-Existence Women’

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Prime reads from enterprise universities in the earlier 7 days

Boris Johnson announces measures to include unfold of Omicron variant Uk acts as a lot more conditions detected in Europe and Asia-Pacific nations tighten travel restrictions. Also, stocks slide most in a calendar year on concern over the new coronavirus variant.

Line chart of Stoxx 600 showing European shares have fallen from record highs

Chinese hypersonic weapon fired a missile over South China Sea The Pentagon struggles to comprehend how Beijing mastered the know-how.

The Pentagon thinks China introduced the hypersonic glide vehicle on a Extended March rocket, noticed listed here at the Wenchang Room Center on China’s southern Hainan Island last calendar year © AFP through Getty Photos

Jamie Dimon apologises 2 times following indicating JPMorgan will outlast China’s Communist bash The Wall Road main suggests he should not have made the remarks pursuing a pay a visit to to Hong Kong.

Jamie Dimon at the French headquarters of JP Morgan lender in Paris, June 2021 © AP

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