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Big Three, big problems
28th October, 2008
Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost in Detroit over the years as the auto industry collapsed.
Big Three, big problems
28th October, 2008
Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost in Detroit over the years as the auto industry collapsed.
A bitter pill to swallow
Katrina Manson28th October, 2008
The counterfeit drugs industry has a devastating effect on poor African countries. Katrina Manson reports from Sierra Leone on the investment initiatives helping to improve supplies of safe drugs
Shot in the arm for safety
Laura Staples28th October, 2008
UK entrepreneur Marc Koska is selling his unique auto-disable syringes around the world to make injections safer, says Laura Staples
The drug formula that didn’t work
Matthew Lynn28th October, 2008
Matthew Lynn says the mega-mergers that reshaped the global pharmaceutical industry over the past decade have delivered little of what they promised
Curing the world’s ills
Edie Lush28th October, 2008
Edie Lush says UK biotech and medical research is world-class, but that start-ups face a challenge to raise capital and must think global from the start
America on the road to perdition
James Doran28th October, 2008
James Doran drives from Wall Street to Detroit to discover how the American Dream turned into a nightmare
A parable of management folly
Matthew Lynn30th September, 2008
Matthew Lynn draws lessons from the disastrous strategies pursued by the Swiss giant that was once among the strongest and most respected financial institutions in Europe
Sun, wind and tide
Janice Warman2nd September, 2008
Janice Warman detects a sea change in attitudes to alternative power generation, and looks at the technologies that are attracting investors’ attention
Power from the Earth’s most common element
Nick Kochan2nd September, 2008
Nick Kochan says hydrogen fuel cells can generate clean energy for businesses and vehicles from a source that will never run out – but is the technology too good to be true?
Dedicated follower of e-fashion
Jane Lewis2nd September, 2008
What downturn? The upstart online fashion retailer Asos is raking it in as celebrity-mad customers snap up clothes as worn by Sienna, Kate, Posh and Agyness, says Jane Lewis
The Tigger approach
Ben Laurance2nd September, 2008
People on tighter budgets are more concerned about the quality and ethics of what they buy, because their money is more precious, Justin King, Sainsbury’s ebullient chief executive, tells Ben Laurance
Keeping up with the flying Scotsman
Nick Kochan1st July, 2008
Nick Kochan meets Jim French, chief executive of the growing British regional carrier that makes a virtue of fuel efficiency and passenger convenience
Selling the mystery of the Orient
Elliot Wilson1st July, 2008
Staying at a Mandarin Oriental hotel is more like joining a family than checking into a room, says Elliot Wilson. How does the chain sustain such astonishing loyalty among its clientele?
‘This year, nature wants to give us more’
Richard Orange3rd June, 2008
Richard Orange says current world shortages of grain, and consequent price spikes, will be alleviated by a bumper harvest in India – and perhaps elsewhere later in the year
View from the mountain
Andrew Kenny29th May, 2008
Graceful suburbs, violent slums: opulence, poverty, murder, a white exodus, a brave mayor… and signs of hope
Sin City hits a losing streak
James Doran29th May, 2008
James Doran says America’s economic downturn has even reached Las Vegas, where visitor numbers are sharply down and casinos are losing out to new competition – from Macau in China
Investors braced for losses as reporting season begins
13th February, 2008
THE City is bracing itself for the latest update on the sub-prime crisis and global economy as the banking sector’s annual reporting season gets underway.
Slugging it out online
David Crow5th May, 2008
David Crow predicts some certain winners: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the candidates’ web designers
Whatever happened to the Hindujas?
Elliot Wilson5th May, 2008
Elliot Wilson visits the inner sanctum of the secretive Indian billionaires whose global interests range from building trucks to owning banks and trading commodities
The art and science of overhauling BP
Martin Vander Weyer5th May, 2008
BP chief executive Tony Hayward inherited a portfolio which combines global potential with fundamental problems in the areas of operational efficiency and safety. In his first major interview since taking over from Lord Browne last year, Hayward talks frankly to Martin Vander Weyer about the challenges of changing the internal culture of an energy giant
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