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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Management theory is a default aspect of modern business, but this hasn’t always been the case. From structure to philosophy, contemporary organisations owe a lot to one man Peter Drucker, widely ...

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 ...

There are many people for whom owning an Andy Warhol painting, a vintage car or a thoroughbred racehorse would be a dream come true. But it’s a much smaller group of people who can usually afford this ...

Few countries have embraced the drive towards a cashless society with as much enthusiasm as Sweden – only one percent of Sweden’s GDP currently circulates in banknotes, making it one of the least cash ...

Progress must include everyone. This is the central tenet driving Jamaica’s Ministry of Tourism. The public sector body has developed a framework that will reposition tourism so that it generates ...

Employee monitoring is at an all-time high. But as more businesses adopt surveillance technology, questions around privacy rights are coming to the fore Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, companies ...

Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings have long dominated the credit rating market. Although Germany’s Scope is trying to break into the so-called Big Three, it is not proving easy The Big ...

In a recent survey, the global employment website Monster found that 20 percent of employees had left a job because of a workplace rivalry. Nonetheless, a growing body of evidence suggests adversaries ...