Prof Maja Korica
@drkorica.bsky.social
I research CEOs, boards, management, elites & society @IESEG.fr Paris, previously Warwick Business School & Said Oxford | On @thinkers50.com Radar. | Better organizations & work for everyone. | Let your life speak. | Views my own | she/her
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.
Phrenology has a deeply racist history & has been consistently debunked. Just because you can ask a research question doesn't mean you should.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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.
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.
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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?
September 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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!
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!
July 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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!
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.
Wish me luck.
June 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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.
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....
June 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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. 🤷♀️
April 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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/...
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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.
April 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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.
March 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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.
February 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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.
Something is up.
January 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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.
Something is up.
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.
December 11, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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.
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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...
November 22, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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.
November 22, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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:
November 6, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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.
November 6, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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.
This morning I am mostly thinking about the art exhibition on Palestine I recently saw at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, where artists showed everyday (in)humanity & imagined different realities. Like this one by Mohamed Abusal, born 1976 in Gaza, titled Un metro a Gaza.
November 16, 2023 at 7:52 AM
This morning I am mostly thinking about the art exhibition on Palestine I recently saw at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, where artists showed everyday (in)humanity & imagined different realities. Like this one by Mohamed Abusal, born 1976 in Gaza, titled Un metro a Gaza.
I’m sorry, does Rishi Sunak know he is the Prime Minister of a sovereign (not so small) country? Who on his team thought this was a good idea?
November 2, 2023 at 8:58 PM
I’m sorry, does Rishi Sunak know he is the Prime Minister of a sovereign (not so small) country? Who on his team thought this was a good idea?
I hate to laugh at children, but this just properly made me laugh & few things do these days. Zoolander levels of delusion & refinement.
November 2, 2023 at 11:43 AM
I hate to laugh at children, but this just properly made me laugh & few things do these days. Zoolander levels of delusion & refinement.
Truly, at this horrendous time of constantly awful news, grateful to Tate for making me laugh for the first time in days. (And yes I know this is dangerously effective graft and should not be laughed away, but also tragicomedy is a real thing). Sigh. #academicSky
October 19, 2023 at 9:11 AM
Truly, at this horrendous time of constantly awful news, grateful to Tate for making me laugh for the first time in days. (And yes I know this is dangerously effective graft and should not be laughed away, but also tragicomedy is a real thing). Sigh. #academicSky
On my way home, this song in my ears. Thinking of Gaza, of all the thousands upon thousands who cannot leave, who cannot return, who cannot take care of those they love, who suffer in isolation or from distance. I’m a child of war. I know how it perverts. There are no words for this terror.
October 15, 2023 at 8:04 AM
On my way home, this song in my ears. Thinking of Gaza, of all the thousands upon thousands who cannot leave, who cannot return, who cannot take care of those they love, who suffer in isolation or from distance. I’m a child of war. I know how it perverts. There are no words for this terror.
From my morning walk in #Paris today: a subtle dig at French police officers (who sometimes serve on horses and as a police force, put their heads in the sand about let’s say some things). Made me smile.
October 5, 2023 at 7:32 AM
From my morning walk in #Paris today: a subtle dig at French police officers (who sometimes serve on horses and as a police force, put their heads in the sand about let’s say some things). Made me smile.