I just got back from the Academy of Management meetings in Montreal. For non-business academics, this is the annual ‘trade association’ get together of approximately 10,000 business academics and administrators.

I attended for two reasons.  The first was that The Design of Business was one of the six finalists for the George R. Terry Book Award for the best business book published in the past two years.  It was an honor to be among the six finalists.  Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America by University of Michigan professor Gerry Davis won.  He sat next to me and was a terrific chap.  Congratulations to Gerry.

The other reason was to do a panel with Henry Mintzberg, Jeanne Liedtka and Nathan Shedroff on embracing messiness in business education.  Given my colleagues on the panel, it was loads of fun

I am deep into the manuscript of my next book, which is on the dangers of shareholder value maximization and stock-based compensation.  Five chapters down and one to go.  It is slated to be out spring-summer of next year.

All the best

Roger