Executives should trust their gut instincts—but only when four tests are met.... More

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychologist Gary Klein debate the power and perils of intuition for senior executives in a recent edition of McKinsey Quarterly.... More

Sir Martin Sorrell, Randy Komisar, and Anne Mulcahy describe how they balance the importance of timely action with the need for thorough, unbiased decision processes in the latest edition of McKinsey Quarterly.... More

A major new study involving some 3,500 executives has highlighted the key skills that innovative and creative entrepreneurs need to develop.... More

Astute investment in people and innovation is key for Ireland in 2010. Liam Fennelly, President of the MBA Association looks at the year ahead for Business and Finance magazine ... ... More

In the latest issue of McKinsey Quarterly, Blair Sheppard, Dean of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, discusses how the expectations of MBA students are changing - and why the traditional MBA education needs to change as well. ... More

Boards should view the current crisis as an opportunity to review the way they function. A healthy self-assessment and some hard questions can go a long way toward improving a company's performance, say McKinsey's Andrew Campbell and Stuart Sinclair, in the latest McKinsey Quarterly. ... More

In times of change and challenge, focus, clarity and commitment to deliver are critical for managers. Paula Weir (MBA DCU) of the Work Flow Zone www.workflowzone.com has ten questions to keep Managers on track...... More

An organisations' ability to compete will depend increasingly upon their ability to innovate and the managerial competence to develop new knowledge and create maximum value in the marketplace with that knowledge, says Dr Denis Harrington, Head of the Business School at WIT, and co-author of Irish Management 2.0 (Blackhall Publishing.)... More

Many business leaders have chosen an MBA as a route to ascend the corporate ladder. This should remain the case in difficult economic times, writes Louise Hodgson in a recent issue of Business and Finance magazine.... More

Different sectors enter and emerge from downturns at different times. A look at past recessions suggests how some industries may fare, in this article from the latest issue of McKinsey Quarterly, Bin Jiang, Timothy M. Koller, and Zane D. Williams of McKinsey www.mckinsey.com ... More

The success of new book Irish Management 2.0 has raised the relevant question: in our current changed business environment management should we not seriously challenge the ways of thinking that worked in the past? The old management paradigm of planning, organising and control must be replaced by one of vision, values and empowerment.... More

Competent management in both public and private organisations is a key cornerstone of sustainable economic success and competitiveness. Yet often in public discourse the role of good quality management is overlooked when examining our recent national success.... More

One of the most influential thinkers of this generation and author of the Tipping Point and Blink, Malcolm Gladwell tackles the subject of success at a seminar at UCD this evening, and in his new book, Outliers.... More

I have heard from a lot of people in the past month. Many of them ask me about the job market for our MBAs, our endowment, our executive education business and about our alumni whose jobs are at risk.... More

As the debate on the shape of the new financial order continues, Jean Dermine Professor of Banking and Finance at INSEAD Business School, considers if capital adequacy and supranational supervision, such as the proposed Bretton Woods II, are enough?... More

When companies look for a manager, they should look for experience, right? Well, maybe not. INSEAD Business School professors Kishore Sengupta and Luk Van Wassenhove say their research has revealed what they call the ‘experience trap.' ... More

Leadership has nothing to do with titles. J. Frank Brown, the Dean of INSEAD, and author of "The Global Business Leader" has met a lot of CEOs in his two-and-a-half decades in business and many of them are little more than LINOs – Leaders In Name Only.... More

Depending how you looked at it, 1984 was either a great or lousy year to be Irish. In Washington the grandson of a south Tipperary peasant was celebrating his landslide re-election as United States President... Marc Coleman takes stock in his new book, extracted here......... More

Serial tech entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan's presentation was one of the highlights of the MBA Association conference in September. She will be the subject of the Channel 4 series The Secret Millionaire (Tuesday evenings, December.) Here, she considers the experiences of female entrepreneurs both sides of the Atlantic........ More

Global competitiveness expert, Stéphane Garelli, visited Dublin last spring to open the MBA Association of Ireland's "Excellence in International Markets" Competitiveness conference at UCD's O'Reilly Hall. Here, he outlines the challenges for countries, companies and individuals...... More

This year in Ireland, hundreds of people will invest time and money to attain a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) - the globally recognised qualification that's widely regarded as a rite of passage for top management. So what's the bottom line for Ireland's MBAs?... More