One out and the Special One in

Professor Adrian Bell discusses the business and football decisions made by Tottenham to replace their manager.

The sacking of Mauricio Pochettino by Tottenham attracted great media attention when Jose Mourinho was almost immediately announced as his replacement. Media and fans seemed to mostly agree that Pochettino had to go on the basis of this season’s results, with Tottenham placed 14th in the Premier League. The big spend on arguably the best football stadium in the UK had fans questioning whether this was to the detriment of the Club's talent acquisition strategy.

In Henley Business School's leading insights, Professor Adrian Bell discusses Jose Mourinho's leadership qualities as the new manager for Tottenham Hotspur.

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Professor Adrian Bell

Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research (Prosperity and Resilience)

Published	21 November 2019
Topics: Business News

How I became a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum – The origins and success story of the PRI

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We are delighted to present JAMES GIFFORD, who founded the PRI initiative which now has nearly 1,200 institutions from more than 50 countries as signatories, including many of the world’s largest pension funds, insurance companies, and investment managers. They manage combined assets of more than US $34 trillion. James Gifford was also named in 2010 by the World Economic Forum as one of 200 Young Global Leaders.

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A new book, edited by Professors Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks and Marcel Prokopczuk, seeks to present the quantitative techniques that are commonly employed in empirical finance research together with real world, state of the art research examples.

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ICMA Centre Research Wins Behavioural Finance Award

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Professor Chris Brooks and Mr Ivan Sangiorgi’s work on the link between age and the financial risk tolerance of retail investors in the UK has won the Behavioural Finance Working Group (BFWG)'s Best Quantitative Paper Award.