Hints and tips:
...“The PIF has quality people; they’re doing good analysis, then [they] get told ‘to get on a plane, you are going there and sign a deal’,” says an international banker....
...Robin Carey, head of the School of Business at the University of Central Lancashire: The current UK economy is very fragile....
...Generosity of spirit is tricky to maintain when the landlord weighs up each week whether their space would be more profitable as a handbag boutique, a bureau de change or a laser dermatology clinic....
...“There is red tape that could be cut away,” says Mr Belchambers. “There are bits around the edges, particularly for firms that are not doing a lot of EU business.”...
...Ms Bowie of the ISS says high spending on personal use of corporate jets is a “red flag” — a warning sign that executives are treating a public company as if it were a family-owned enterprise, or that the...
...Few captured the mood as well as Martin Ford in The Rise of the Robots, the winner of the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, which painted a bleak picture of the upheavals that would come as...
...As things turned out, she became one of France’s first successful female business leaders in a male-dominated world, selling her Veuve Clicquot champagne in international markets and pioneering a technique...
...It says a new “gigafactory” in Nevada will probably bring down battery pricing by around 30 per cent....
...A ferociously ambitious, sharp-suited policy wonk, Emanuel’s mayoral style gels with the spirit of the age. Having nearly chosen a career as a ballet dancer, he is also a man of surprises....
...National chains – such as Wagamama and PizzaExpress, as well as fancy burger chain Byron – are doing better than their independent peers, which are struggling to deal with rising costs....
...: On the corporation tax cut: “The direction of travel on corporation tax is welcome and sends a clear message that the UK is open for business....
...He plans to grab some of the business and talent dislodged from the deal-doing divisions of universal banks as they contract....
...Around Digby, hundreds of Australian wine lovers and wine experts were doing much the same thing, as part of the 24th Cullen Wines International Chardonnay Tasting, a regular gathering where vintages from...
...But the current situation hadn’t been considered a big problem as long as international oil companies listed in the US and western Europe had access to global supplies....
...It spelled out the business community’s fears about the costs of international sanctions and isolation....
...He met me at San Francisco International Airport in a circa 1979 robin’s-egg-blue Mercedes....
...He then outlines a pretty thorough business case....
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