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This website is operated by Marcel Metze (59), independent researcher, journalist, and author of books, articles and essays about corporate history, financial issues, economic trends, and a wide range of management matters.

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Metze/Groene Master Class

The next two classes will start in January and August 2012.

Application Closed for January class
Deadline for August class: June 1st

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Researcher for corporate biography.


On the Air

Metze/Groene Master Class Dossier Class 2011/2: Inside McKinsey

Dossier Class 2011/1
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Recently published books

The Haughty

Increasingly, managers are reciting the mantras of gurus and business schools. Once they were applauded as corporate statesmen. Now they are a haugthy class, driven by wealth, power and status. Will they eventually come to fall? In Dutch.

A Changing Tide

New Public Management: a case study of cultural and managerial change at the Agency for Public Works and Water Management, 'Rijkswaterstaat'. In Dutch.
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To be published in 2012

Running Royal Dutch Shell

A political biography of Royal Dutch Shell, scheduled for publication in 2012 (in Dutch).
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Metze's Monthly
Selection of Reading

To be resumed in January 2012.

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Recent articles

Analysis: Make things better again, Philips in 2011. What this company needs is the eagerness of Silicon Valley. In Dutch.
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New Facts: Still an Elite. How a new meritocratic, university trained elite replaced the old boys' network. In Dutch.
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Essay: How the Dutch Christian Democratic Party (CDA) became a failure. In Dutch.
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Management Essay 18: Why do top executives always want to make more money? In Dutch.
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Essay:
'Nina', investigative journalism and the construction of reality. In Dutch
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Management Essay 17: No one at the wheel, the deeper causes of the financial crisis. In Dutch.
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Lectures and Presentations

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In Progress

The Rich and Super-Rich, a book about money, power and status in The Netherlands.
A co-production with élite-researcher Jos van Hezewijk.