Not so many years ago, travelling abroad necessitated airport departure queues, jetlag and over-excited children threatening to do permanent damage to your eardrums. Then in 1994, the dream of hopping ...
Paul Polman took the reins at Unilever during one of the most precarious periods in the company’s 150-year history. It was during the aftermath of the financial crisis that the Dutch businessman ...
Revolutionary human resource management has once again seen Google named the world’s best employer. How, asks Elizabeth Matsangou, is the tech powerhouse so good at recruiting talent and nurturing ...
This year, one of Britain’s most controversial cultural institutions, the Saatchi Gallery, celebrates its 30th anniversary. Laura French looks at how the mastermind behind it has shaped advertising ...
Perhaps we have finally reached that point – the moment of clarity in which we realise our relentless accumulation of things is not actually as satisfying as we once believed it to be. Ingrained in us ...
With organisations to run and big orders to fill, it’s easy to see how some CEOs inadvertently sacrifice quality for quantity. By integrating a system of total quality management it’s possible to have ...
There is plenty of discussion as to whether the US or China will end up dominating the economy of the future. To become a part of the conversation, Europe will need to make up for its long-standing ...
The publication of the EU’s long-awaited draft corporate sustainability and due diligence directive in February 2022 marked an important milestone of the emergence of mandatory human rights due ...
In recent years, two big names in the grocery business have been making gains at the expense of almost all rivals. German supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl have made a massive success of their low-cost ...
Though the budget carrier revolution changed the face of travel, Ryanair’s dire reputation has shown that relying on low cost as the sole business and marketing model is no longer enough. Now the ...
After more than a century of male leadership, car manufacturing giant General Motors became embroiled in a scandal as it emerged a design flaw was putting its customers at risk. In 2014 – in the ...
Change may be difficult, but inertia can prove truly damaging, particularly from a business point of view. In the corporate world, standing still is the same as going backwards. However, once a market ...