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You wonder whichone's had more reincarnations - Before he became our Minister for Banking Blow-Ups, plain Paul Myners' varied career has included stints as a journo, NM Rothschild portfolio manager and chairman of Marks &...
The obsession with profit maximization is harmful. The defining purpose of business is to maximise owners' value over the long term... Elaine Sternberg1, Just Business: Business Ethics in Action (Little, Brown & Co., London,...
Marc Bolland and Archie Norman have been hailed as saviours of M&S and ITV – but how can we tell, asks Jeremy Warner. Archie Norman (ASDA, now ITV) Photo: Stephen Hird What makes a good business leader? Yet judging by the stock...
Published Date: 18 November 2009 HOLD fire on the recovery celebrations. Even when the UK emerges from recession as predicted at the end of the year, there is no guarantee Scotland will follow suit, though the latest report...
Published Date: 17 November 2009 FORMER Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir George Mathewson has voiced doubts about whether the bank will be run from Scotland in future. In an interview published today he suggests RBS chiefs...
Published Date: 16 November 2009 Queen star May is Grubb's Best Friend Former Lord Provost Eric Milligan used to like getting his picture taken with his famous guests like Nancy Sinatra and Nelson Mandela. However, the latest...
If the Wright brothers were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. This quip from Herb Kelleher is even more apt now than when the boss of Southwest Airlines said it some 15 years ago as the industry was...
If ever a banking deal came with the curse of the black spot, it was the takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro at the height of the last boom in 2007. Three European banks teamed up to launch a hostile £49 billion raid, the largest...
Sir Fred Goodwin was photographed in Edinburgh on Remembrance Sunday, breaking his cover for the first time in months Like cabbies the world over, Edinburgh taxi drivers like to point out the sights to visitors. After a...
Even the drunken youth who urinated on the war memorial and the couple who used their baby’s buggy to steal Poppy Appeal tins haven’t been able to prevent Gordon Brown from topping the Remembrance week villains’ league table.
