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

Great afternoon from London. 20 yrs right after the collapse of energy team Enron, reminiscences of the scandal are fading. How would you remind executives to prevent a repeat of previous company problems. Also, the upcoming FT Company Education and learning position is upon us.

Prepared and edited by Wai Kwen Chan and Andrew Jack.

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FT enterprise books

From the politicisation of the place of work to implementing system in difficult periods, below are the top rated titles for November and December.

FT European Company Colleges 2021 position

It is that time of calendar year all over again and we are not chatting about Christmas. On December six Monday, we will reveal the top rated enterprise educational institutions in Europe based mostly on their performance in several rankings. Appear out for this on rankings.ft.com/house/regional-rankings and study our coverage on ft.com/european-enterprise-educational institutions. The to start with story was posted this morning and appeared at what can enterprise educational institutions train a family members agency?

Sign up for us for the FT’s ‘Future of Company Education and learning: Highlight on MBA’

We will be holding a digital celebration on Feb 23 Wednesday 2022 with FT Editorial and top rated enterprise educational institutions sharing insights about the FT MBA position, responsible enterprise instruction, innovation and the long term of the MBA in a write-up Covid-19 earth. Sign-up for absolutely free on: https://businesseducation.dwell.ft.com.

Company faculty professor advisers sought

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Sign up for our Future of Work dwell celebration

The last installment in the FT’s Future of Work series will feature a combination of interviews, panels and functional workshops to equip you with the competencies and awareness to thrive in a new earth of operate. Register now for this celebration — taking place on December 1 from 9.30 to fourteen.30 GMT.

Andrew Hill’s administration problem

Enron submitted for bankruptcy 20 yrs in the past this week. As I write in my column, today’s board directors require to know about this scandal and other folks, because, as the scandal fades in memory, the chance that they repeat old problems raises.

At the 10-calendar year anniversary of Enron’s collapse, I instructed directors must continue to keep a duplicate of the group’s hubristic past letter to shareholders on their desks, like Renaissance scholars stored a skull to remind them of their mortality.

For my administration problem, propose at least just one way in which directors and executives may be nudged to remember this and other company cautionary tales? An yearly “Enron day”? A basic calendar reminder? An on the net course in company failure? Send out your concepts to [email protected].

Previous week I asked for recommendations of a complicated product or service or service ripe for simplification. On Twitter, @PaddingtonCares arrived up with a worthy applicant: the regulation and issues process in social housing, which is “in dire require of overhaul”. The tweet states: “It normally takes far as well very long to deliver outcomes, and is as well complicated for numerous to obtain.”

In further more looking at this week, I hugely commend extracts from the 3 proposals that are as a result of to the last of the FT/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize this calendar year. The winner will be introduced on December 1 (and you can be part of the enjoyable on the net), but in the meantime enjoy insights into cyber security, the long term of higher instruction, and the fight in opposition to local climate improve, from, respectively, Manuel Hepfer, Ines Lee and Eileen Tipoe, and Melissa Zhang. The £15,000 prize will be on offer you all over again upcoming calendar year, so if you have wonderful enterprise guide concepts and will however be below 35 upcoming November, glimpse out for it.

Knowledge line

Each individual calendar year, alumni from educational institutions taking aspect in the FT EMBA position reveal their income development. Present salaries demonstrate there is however a pay out hole among male and feminine alumni, with adult men reporting, on normal, a base income of $20,000 more than girls, write Sam Stephens and Leo Cremonezi.

Female alumni, nonetheless, have a larger sized proportion income raise when compared to their male counterparts despite the substantial pay out hole. About the 3 yrs because finishing their scientific studies, feminine alumni salaries rose by sixty four per cent, on normal, when compared with the stages ahead of they started their EMBA, while it is 61 per cent for males. Female graduates from Asia-Pacific boast the major normal 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 found below.

Work and careers roundup

  • We have all noticed colleagues who are bluffing, getting not done their research. Here are ways to place those who are ‘winging it’ at operate.

  • Immediately after conquering ageist setbacks in their careers, two good friends kickstarted coaching programmes with world-wide ambitions. Come across out how to thrive as a mid-life lady in the innovative industries.

In 2021, Jane Evans (still left) and Carol Russell, posted a guide identified as ‘Invisible to Invaluable: Unleashing the Energy of Mid-Daily life Women’

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Top rated reads from enterprise educational institutions in the previous week

Boris Johnson announces steps to comprise unfold of Omicron variant British isles functions as more cases detected in Europe and Asia-Pacific international locations tighten vacation constraints. Also, stocks slide most in a calendar year on problem more than the new coronavirus variant.

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

Chinese hypersonic weapon fired a missile more than South China Sea The Pentagon struggles to understand how Beijing mastered the technologies.

The Pentagon thinks China released the hypersonic glide motor vehicle on a Long March rocket, noticed below at the Wenchang House Middle on China’s southern Hainan Island past calendar year © AFP via Getty Pictures

Jamie Dimon apologises 2 times right after stating JPMorgan will outlast China’s Communist social gathering The Wall Avenue chief says he must not have created the remarks following a stop by to Hong Kong.

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

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