Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jeff Reuer, Distinguished Research Environment Professor at Warwick Business School and the Guggenheim Endowed Chair and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. Profess

The competency trap and how companies can avoid it

Apr 13th, 2021 30m 54s

Companies have been falling victim to the competency trap for many years, most notably Kodak, which failed to anticipate the switch to digital cameras in time and disappeared from our lives. Jerker Denrell, Professor of Behavioural Science, exp

The Visuals Strategy Framework – a tool to bring strategy to life

Mar 31st, 2021 25m 11s

Research by Sotirios Paroutis, Professor of Strategic Management, has found the much-derided PowerPoint is in fact a vital tool in the development of strategy, giving meaning and understanding to the abstract ideas contained in many company's v

Open strategy: why it is growing in popularity and how to do it

Mar 23rd, 2021 31m 33s

Strategy is moving out of the C-suite. More and more companies are involving not just their executives, but employees on the shopfloor and even stakeholders outside of the firm to devise their strategy. Christina Wawarta, Associate Fellow at Wa

How your company should fight back if it has been hit by disruptive innovation

Mar 18th, 2021 29m 6s

Over nine years Sotirios Paroutis and Luciano Oviedo were able to go behind the scenes at Cisco and see how the company reacted to the emergence of Amazon Web Services' cloud platform that disrupted its established business model. Cisco was abl

The four principles to build long-term survival for a company

Mar 8th, 2021 30m 19s

Christian Stadler, Professor of Strategic Management, has spent many years studying Europe's century-old firms. Listen to this podcast with Core Insights host Trevor Barnes to discover what he learned about building enduring success and the com

How to exploit luck to gain a competitive advantage

Mar 1st, 2021 29m 6s

Does luck play a part in business? According to Chengwei Liu's research it plays a huge part, with good luck largely underestimated by managers and bad luck overestimated. Listen to the Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioural Science te

Janus Strategy – the strategy that drove Apple to the top

Feb 22nd, 2021 35m 37s

Named after the Roman God Janus, who could survey two or more directions simultaneously, in this episode Loizos Heracleous explains how Janus Strategy is the route to success for today's top companies. The Professor of Strategy explains to Core

How to transform a corporation through mergers and acquisitions

Feb 16th, 2021 29m 3s

In 1999 Dow Chemical decided to embark on one of the most ambitious transformations in US corporate history. It decided to pivot from low-margin chemicals into high-margin speciality chemicals and embarked on the acquisition of 138 companies, e

Applying design thinking to your company’s strategy

Feb 8th, 2021 29m 22s

Design thinking has become the de facto way to innovate for successful companies these days, but it is now moving further up the organisational hierarchy. Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Pietro Micheli, Professor of Business Performan

How to incorporate strategic agility in your business

Feb 1st, 2021 32m 34s

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy, about agility. Once the manifesto for software designers, agile has worked its way to the top of organisations as companies look to cope with an increasingly c

How to make sure your organisation is ready for the recession

Aug 5th, 2020 31m 5s

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes interviews Hossam Zeitoun, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science & Strategy, on his latest research on which firms are able to withstand a recession. Dr Zeitoun analysed nearly 1,000 workplaces before and a

How the pandemic has shown the new normal needs rights for whistleblowers

Jul 13th, 2020 25m 47s

Marianna Fotaki, Professor of Business Ethics, talks to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes about the importance of whistleblowers for organisations and society during the pandemic and in the new normal after it. She argues that instead of fearing

Governments should be up front about the trade-offs made in relaxing lockdown

Jul 6th, 2020 33m

Graham Loomes, Professor of Behavioural Science, reveals the trade-offs Governments are making between people's health and their livelihoods and argues they should be made transparent as leaders relax lockdown measures to get their economies mo

Is repurposing drugs our only hope in tackling Coronavirus?

Jun 29th, 2020 26m 37s

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Ayfer Ali, Assistant Professor of Strategy, on how repurposing already existing drugs provides our best route to treating Coronavirus. Dr Ali reveals how a drugs repurposing strategy can unearth dozens

The types of leadership needed in a crisis like this pandemic

Jun 15th, 2020 32m 59s

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Keith Grint, Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick and one of the leading figures on leadership in academia. He talks about the different facets of leadership that are needed during a crisis f

How to lead a virtual team

Jun 8th, 2020 26m 50s

The lockdown across much of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic has meant many people having to work from home, but how do you lead a team over the internet? Davide Nicolini, Professor of Organisation Studies and Director of the Knowledge &

How to re-invent your business and emerge from lockdown in better shape

May 29th, 2020 34m 4s

In this 'Leading through COVID-19' episode Pietro Micheli, Professor of Business Performance and Innovation, talks through how Design Thinking can help companies find new markets and products, even re-invent their business to cope with the econ

How does the Coronavirus tracing app work?

May 18th, 2020 29m 10s

Eivor Oborn, Professor of Healthcare Management, discusses the various coronavirus tracing apps that are being trialled with Core Insights host Trevor Barnes. Professor Oborn explains the disadvantages and advantages of the UK's NHSX app curren

What will the energy industry look like after the pandemic?

May 11th, 2020 29m 59s

With host Trevor Barnes this Core Insights episode sees Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, examine the impact of the global pandemic on the energy industry. Demand for oil has stalled in the economic lockdown with the US experiencing

What firms will survive the pandemic?

Apr 29th, 2020 31m 34s

John Colley is Professor of Practice in Strategy, a former MD of a FTSE 100 company and has held non-executive director roles on a number of Private Equity boards. Here, Professor Colley talks to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes on what busines

The guiding principles for leading organisations in a crisis

Apr 24th, 2020 29m 27s

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Dimitrios Spyridonidis, Associate Professor of Leadership and Innovation, about what leaders should do when their organisation is plunged into a crisis, and for many companies there has been no bigger c

The biases that afflict leaders in the Coronavirus crisis

Apr 21st, 2020 28m 43s

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science, author of award-winning book The Mind is Flat and star of BBC Radio 4's The Human Zoo, about the biases and heuristics that leaders suffer in a time of cri

How to exit the lockdown and save the economy

Apr 15th, 2020 25m 39s

Warwick Business School's Core Insights series is concentrating its academic expertise on how organisations and societies can navigate the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. In this episode host Trevor Barnes talks to Nick Powdthavee, Professor of B

Four lessons for marketing during the Coronavirus crisis

Apr 9th, 2020 32m 10s

In Warwick Business School's special Core Insights podcast series on how organisations can survive the Coronavirus crisis, host Trevor Barnes interviews Hugh Wilson, Professor of Marketing, on how brands should market during the pandemic. Profe

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