I will be heading to London tomorrow to attend the 2nd Sumantra Ghoshal Conference on Managerially Relevant Research at the London Business School (LBS). I’m really looking forward to attending again this year. Last year’s conference was interesting, …and London is always fun (the painful £1:$2 exchange rate notwithstanding).

But back to the conference. The purpose of the conference is to address one salient issue facing business schools today – specifically, the relevance of research produced by business scholars. The central question of interest is, “Does our research matter to practice?” (see On Managerial Relevance for my insights from last year’s conference). I will report back again this year.

In addition to any insights I may glean from the conference, I also plan to write next week about private equity, and how the folks from that industry have been passing their idle time in the absence of any meaningful dealmaking activity. Until then…

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