Metze Research

Welcome

This website is operated by Dr. Marcel Metze (56), an independent journalist, author and historian, based in The Netherlands.

Over the past three decades, he published more than a dozen investigative books and hundreds of articles, essays and columns about business, finance, major economic trends, and a wide range of management issues.


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Metze's Master Class

Talented, ambitious students and post-graduates may participate in our projects as interns or trainees, or work on projects of their own, and develop their skills in historical research, investigative reporting, and excellent writing, in a small group under Marcel Metze's personal guidance.
Application: continuously.

Job offers

None at the moment.



In Progress

'Royal Dutch Shell, behind the scenes'

An independent, non-commissioned, investigative biography of Royal Dutch Shell, scheduled to appear in December 2009.

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Uitspraak Geding Metze/Rijkswaterstaat

Vordering niet toegewezen.
Rechter kritiseert Rijkswaterstaat: 'poogt onwelgevallig boek niet te laten verschijnen'.

Hoofdpunten uitspraak, en commentaar Metze

Uitspraak p 1-5
Uitspraak p 6-10
Uitspraak p 11-15
Uitspraak p 16

Metze's Monthly
Selection of Reading

To be resumed in January 2010.

most recent issue
earlier issues


Recent articles

Opinie: Nout Wellink moet aftreden (Dutch)
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Management Essay 17: De Oude Orde is niet verslagen (Dutch)
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Management Essay 16: Het Florida Syndroom, hoe de bankiers feest vierden en de toezichthouders toekeken (Dutch.
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Management Essay 15: Opnieuw een eeuw stilstand, tenzij de elites in eigen land investeren (Dutch).
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Management Essay 14:
Dynamiek komt nu van links, niet van rechts
(Dutch)
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Management Essay 13:
Weg van de beurs
(Dutch)
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Management Essay 12:
Bulldog Investors
(Dutch)
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Lectures and Presentations

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Upcoming Projects

Farewell to a careless elite.
Essays, reports and interviews,
to be published in the fall of 2009 (Dutch)

McKinsey & Company, a corporate biography, to be published in 2010