Tata Steel: Perseverance & Excellence
Blame it on Ayn Rand. She – of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead fame – provided Sajid Savid with an ideological backbone. Secretary for...
The Power of Incremental Change and the Quest for Perfection
Toyota spends in excess of $10bn annually on automotive research and development. That pile of money buys the company incremental improvements in nearly all...
The big win
Business Vision’s Naomi Majid takes a look at successful corporate governance in South Africa to determine why it’s working, and if it can be...
The King and III
As Johannesburg’s Stock Exchange awaits the next incarnation of its ground-breaking code of corporate governance, Business Vision’s NAOMI MAJID examines the legacy of the...
The big fail
What will it take to fix the failures of corporate governance in Germany?
IN the wake of two world wars, Germany rose from its own...
SANGU DELLE (CEO Golden Palm Investments): Entrepreneurial capitalism with a conscience
LIKE many successful businessmen, Sangu Delle’s career as a relentless money spinner began in the school playground. Unlike his contemporaries, for whom a pop-up...
Jacob Dewitte (CEO Oklo): Taking things nuclear
JACOB Dewitte is a man unafraid of urging more and more nations to embrace nuclear technology. And as economies the world over begin to...
EESHA KHARE (Student): Young inventor changing the mobile world
MOBILE phone batteries last for a few hours and then slowly die. We all sigh a little, put them on charge, and wait a...
Daniel Hashim (Founder, Carbon Sponge Solutions): Small is beautiful
BOFFIN-turned-businessman Daniel Hashim is carving out a name for himself by getting nanotechnology out of the research laboratory and into the industrial marketplace.
Dr Hashim’s...
Électricité de France (EDF): Thinking Big and Outside the Box
Determined to become the world’s largest supplier of renewable energy, Électricité de France (EDF) in July took an 80% stake in Hong Kong-based wind...