In other news, thanks to a genAI search, I just discovered that the same person, a Dionna L. Mann, published all of these books aimed at kids/young adults. From The Genius of Facebook/Tesla to Potty Party. I don't know if I should be impressed or frightned.

A magisterial takedown of "viewpoint diversity". No notes. Full article here: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Google's philosophy re AI and US government contracts seems to be 'other people are doing it, so we should too'. Brilliant. No notes.

How can the field of organization studies help us understand how genocides happen and how corporations become implicated in human rights and other violations? This introduction to a special online issue in Journal of Business Ethics details the answer. See here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Gaza is the world’s first AI enabled genocide”. Powerful discussion of Project Nimbus and the profiling/ranking of every Palestinian in Gaza by AI systems followed by kill orders. Google and Amazon’s role in building and sustaining this is clear. Right now at ChangeNow in Paris.

In last US election, wealthiest 100 Americans’ donations went 80% to Trump’s Republicans. Reading Tim Wu on Curse of Bigness and German monopoly industrialists propping up Hitler at a crucial time and really wishing US billionaires were less self-interested and more fearful of history.

Tech abuse is good business and it shouldn't be. We need urgent regulation now. Laura Bates says it all here. Gift link to article: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Please join for @ieseg.fr International Women's Day event that *actually* digs deep, this time re impact of AI on women's careers/families, but also on societies. Feat Dr Hertog @oii.ox.ac.uk & Dr Koning @harvard.edu. March 9 1-2 pm CET, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/iwd-2026-u... All welcome!

This is appalling beyond words. Beyond even Trump's usual awfulness. This is just cruelty on capitalist steroids.

A genuinely clever, well-written, engaging whodunit. Highly recommend.

I don't care about games/films, but all social media videos created with AI should be labelled as such. Otherwise, we risk full loss of trust in our eyes, our societies and fundamentally ourselves. No way back from that. Thanks for the story, @sarahoconnorft.ft.com.

I urgently need fellow business school profs to get a grip and stop doing research that so blatantly makes us look even worse than we already appear. Phrenology has a deeply racist history & has been consistently debunked. Just because you can ask a research question doesn't mean you should.

Hard to disagree. Incidentally, I posted about Musk over on LI ("Your daily reminder that if you are still speaking/teaching about Elon Musk as simply a 'genius entrepreneur', it's high time to inform yourself and stop."). This was comment by someone who used to be in my field. Facilitating indeed.

Does this help?

First solo book contract signed! Elites, Business and Society coming your way sometime late next year (God willing, given least of all I have another book to deliver in the same period 😶‍🌫️). Attempt to do a truly cross-disciplinary intro to business elites in less than 40k words. Wish me luck!

Over on LinkedIn, trying to explain (to a deafening silence) why 'women should just get on the #genAI bandwagon before it's too late' is NOT it. Wish me luck.

New paper now out! On managerial mood work or how managers use emotional prompts to manipulate group moods & help coordination happen in time-pressured settings. Based on obsevations of backstages of Paris fashion shows. Full paper available, feedback welcome: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Ordering a book to pick up in store and leaving the bookshop with four more. 🤷‍♀️

Finally wrote about why all this talk about AI augmentation in context of uni teaching is more akin to Greeks bearing gifts than any kind of bright future for universities/our societies. Here's the link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Bravo, @transportforlondon.bsky.social.

One of the best small joys of my teaching life is my decision to add to the end of my course syllabi a request for students to send me a photo of an otter or wombat of their choice for a small extra credit. Teaching next week and my inbox is full of random delights like this. Strongly recommend.

Super pleased to be organizing this event on women's careers in era of social backlash, given Trump's anti-inclusion executive orders, corporate "sunsetting" (Accenture's term) of diversity goals & regressions in young men's support for greater equity fuelled by manosphere podcasters, among others.

This is the official Sony Pictures account on TikTok sharing a scene from the Social Network in which Zuckerberg is being yelled at, with the caption "all of us this week". Something is up.

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Yes, I have to teach 'traditional' strategy. But I also have the freedom to invite colleagues to recreate the Battle of Waterloo for my students & get them to geek out about importance of soil conditions, timings and availability of key staff. On some days, this job is a genuine joy.

Remember this article? I read it and decided to offer extra credit toward participation for my MSc students to read a related book & talk to me about it. In the end, 16 out of my 48 students did. That's 16 more than read a book for any other class this term. We CAN do sth about trends like these.

The US is an utter hellish nightmare, example 1,343,572. Full story here: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Taught my MBA students yesterday. Discussed how to enable collective action in emergencies, learning from Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Chilean mining rescue. Then as specific local businesses they prepared responses to recent Valencia floods. Business schools and mgmt education can be better.

Also see this on role of education:

Can we please not share this around without attribution or context (I keep seeing it on LI, now here too). It is based on exit polls, not actual voting. It was published by the NY Times. Other analyses, e.g. by FT (also based on exit polls), show movement to right pretty much across the board.