Dr Kevin D. Tennent
Reader in Management at the #University of York and general business history expert. Research interests include corporate governance, sport, transport and teaching and learning using history. Opinions expressed are mine, not the University's.
- USS - apparently not doing quite as badly as we might think giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
- Find out about Alex Gillett and I's new book about the British influence on the Olympic movement in this week's @uoysbs.bsky.social spotlight research blog! #bizhis #mgthis #sporthistory #mbh blogs.york.ac.uk/sbs-spotligh...
- Get into the new Pacer v Sprinter second generation DMU war...and find out why Pacers were rubbish into the bargain.
- Some good discussion of High Streets up on the Granuiad site - but what is missing from the discussion remains how much worse the problem of visible decline is in the UK compared to other European countries (or indeed Asia or Australia). www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
- Something is going right for towns which have played to their strengths to foster economic growth such as Wakefield, Barnsley and Doncaster. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Strategic. www.visualcapitalist.com/how-greenlan...
- Exciting new(ish) map from Railmaponline - year by year timeline of the North East from 1825 to the present. #mgthis #bizhis #mbh www.railmaponline.com/north-east-t...
- Reposted by Dr Kevin D. TennentSome perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
- Neat piece about a new book on crisp packets and their strategic significance #bishis #mgthis #mbh www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
- Two examples of needless and unthinking AI misuse in the public realm in one day. How long before we see an AI misuse in public life that causes a disaster that costs lives?
- Every year this is not done is money out of our econony, and every year the compound of the lost potential grows higher. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Potential good news if true, now put the committment in and get on with it.
- This paper on political campaign spending is available on open access until the 21st Jan doi.org/10.1017/S002... and shows a strong correlation between candidate spending and votes that has increased since the 1880s.
- One of the facets of this is that in Europe it seems to be just a British issue - retail stores, corporate and independent, seem to be well maintained and thriving in just about every other country. The management of British retailers should be made to visit Spain to see how to do it properly.
- Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Merry Christmas all!
- A good article about why the new GBR brand is just so, so bad. It doesn't even follow Network Rail's own 'Wayfinder' guidelines.
- I've always thought a botched England tour would make an excellent comedy film, sort of like a combination between Mike Bassett and Spinal Tap. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
- Good little article about why archives still matter and should continue to matter.
- Day night matches, shorter matches, points only for a win, teams all play each other or not....just a reminder that the County Championship has always been kicked around and experimented with, even when it was the only competition. Daily Mail, 7 Aug. 1931, p. 15.
- Unfortunate incident at Rockferry @rwldproject.bsky.social Daily Mail, 8 Dec. 1922, p. 10.
- Don't expect privacy if you check into a hotel in Hastings in 1895. "Hotel Arrivals." Hastings and St. Leonards Observer, 5 Jan. 1895, p. 7.
- Personally I think good design tends to abstract the symbolism into it rather than shouting it, so this is a fail.
- Congratulations to Dr Turner, this is extremely well merited.
- Devotion to a lost cause.
