Business

Interview: Martin Broughton

7th November, 2007

Judi Bevan meets CBI president Martin Broughton, who as chairman of British Airways and BAT has learnt to enjoy controversial industries and deal with external pressures

The strong pound

7th November, 2007

What's happened to the pound in your pocket.

An oxymoron: green private jets

7th November, 2007

Neil Collins says NetJets will struggle to persuade eco-warriors that its flying limo service is carbon-neutral

City life

7th November, 2007

Robert Beaumont talks to the Bishop of Liverpool about urban regeneration

Gazprom: the hidden hand

31st October, 2007

Energy is an issue where Europe really does need to act together

Investment: farming

31st October, 2007

Farming is a great investment, just not in this country

Chinese property

31st October, 2007

Property speculation in China

Any other business

31st October, 2007

Martin Vander Weyer on waiting for a train and his youthful radicalism

The death of the golden share

24th October, 2007

‘A triumph for the European Commission’ (as USA Today chose to describe it) is not something usually to be celebrated here. But yesterday’s finding by the European Court of Justice against Germany’s ‘VW law’ – protecting Volkswagen against takeover via a blocking minority vote held by the state – really does look like a blow for greater dynamism, industrial synergy, and efficient use of capital throughout Europe.

On Stephen Green, HSBC boss

24th October, 2007

Matthew Lynn says shareholder activist Eric Knight is right to castigate HSBC’s strategy, and that the bank’s deeply religious chairman Stephen Green now faces a battle to hang on to his job

Reagan at General Electric

24th October, 2007

George Trefgarne on the businessmen who shaped Ronald Reagan.

Interview: Jonathan Kestenbaum

24th October, 2007

Even being soaked by driving rain isn’t enough to dampen Jonathan Kestenbaum’s passion for innovation.

City life

24th October, 2007

Lucy Beresford on what is on the minds of Johnannesburg residents.

A day to remember

17th October, 2007

Martin Jacomb says the crisis that led to the first run on a British bank since 1866 should have been foreseen, but that apportioning blame is less important than learning lessons

Interview: Julian Metcalfe

17th October, 2007

Judi Bevan learns the distinctive philosophy of the Pret a Manger chain from its founder, Julian Metcalfe

Economics made easy

17th October, 2007

Any other business

17th October, 2007

Why can't British builders be more like the Poles?

17th October, 2007

Over the past 20 years or so, I have found myself almost continuously on the client side of building contracts, large and small, domestic, corporate and charitable, in four different countries: Britain, France, Hong Kong and Japan. It is an activity in which optimism is rarely justified by experience: builders the world over tend habitually to under-estimate the time required for any task, to have trouble with supply chains, to misread architects’ plans, and to fall off ladders and take time off to recover

When computers go crazy

10th October, 2007

Matthew Vincent says private investors in hedge funds will do better by picking those that rely on human judgment in turbulent markets rather than sophisticated software

Safe strategies

10th October, 2007

Ian Cowie says that even in uncertain times like these, there are profitable ways of investing your savings