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...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Here is a selection of the FT’s best journalism, handpicked by our editors. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Ben Hall, world news editor, picks: • Isis Inc: how oil fuels jihadi terrorists by...
...latest in a series of real estate-related companies to go public, writes Kate Allen....
...As a character in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall once observed: “A relationship is like a shark. It has to move forward or it dies.”...
...The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World, by Daniel Yergin, Allen Lane, RRP£30 Yergin is the world’s pre-eminent historian of the oil industry....
...That view was adopted in the 1980 case of Diamond v. Chahkabarty, which said that the patent laws protected “anything under the sun that is made by man,” including an oil-eating microorganism....
...Two other kids who are investigating the crime end up on the wrong side of a corrupt oil company. Fast, frenetic fun....
...Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation, and Others Don’t By Lynda Gratton FT/Prentice Hall £20, 232 pages FT bookshop price: £16 London Business School’s own hot property, Gratton...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, by Iain Carson and Vijay V Vaitheeswaran Published by Twelve/Hachette Book Group (US and UK) The book describes how Big Oil and the world’s carmarkers...
...What should regionally-based companies fear most: the local rival or the company in far-off China and India?...
...Only Norsk Hydro’s crisis management of a failed oil drilling introduces the everyday business world into these pages....
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