July 27, 2004

This is the second of Ian F Grant’s series of articles recording Management magazine’s first 50 years of publication. He picks up on managing in the 1960s when the magazine found itself in the vanguard of thoughtful writing about work and society-changing issues, including the concept of social responsibility of business.

Massey University has just completed New Zealand’s most extensive governance research project ever undertaken. It has produced some surprising findings about directors, governance and board effectiveness. And database software company Oracle provided funding and other support for the project. Why?

US chief executives recently voted Lynda Gratton’s book Living Strategy: putting people at the heart of corporate purpose, one of their 20 most influential business titles.