ZICA ASSIS (Founder, Beliza Natural): A real rags to riches tale
AS a child in the seventies, Zica Assis and her family had nothing. They lived, like thousands of others in the run-down favelas of...
California dreaming with Google’s HR policy
IT IS said that you are more likely to win a place at Harvard or Yale than land a job with Google. The company’s...
Celestial origins to cerebral slogans, Nike’s been just doing it for...
The world’s largest supplier of athletic shoes and clothing owes its success to dedication, hard work… and the willingness to correct errors and oversights
Nike...
Book Review: Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: Six Ways the West Beat the...
In much the same way Marxists internationalists held on to the belief that the workers’ revolution would sweep the world before it, today’s neoconservatives...
Changes and optimism in the engine room of UK economy
SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) are in the news with optimistic projections for Britain’s export trade – despite Brexit – and BNP Paribas appointing...
UK firms on cliff edge as crisis continues, distress tracker reveals
MORE than a half-a-million UK businesses are facing a high risk of insolvency, and 250,000 may not survive another month without a change to...
The Year That Wasn’t (but really, really wanted to be)
Nearly all financial and commodity markets stumbled in 2018. Canada-based STUART DUNN, chairman of the Holdun Family Office, looks back at a year some...
Oh, my gourd: pumpkins, sweets and costumes make today a monster...
WANT to hear a scary story…? Well gather round the hearth, children, and consider these facts (well, internet facts, courtesy of the US National...
Gender agenda and balance in new age of Davos Man
WEF founder Klaus Schwab, troubled by contradictions, ensures a level playing field, as JOHN STARR reports
THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos,...
Nouriel Roubini: Emerging Markets after the Fed Hikes Rates
The prospect that the US Federal Reserve will start exiting zero policy rates later this year has fuelled growing fear of renewed volatility in...




































