Topic: Financial Times Ltd.

BUSINESS IMPROVING BUSINESS THROUGH SYSTEMIC CHANGE. COMMENTS ON THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT. | Comment

Monoline Explained

BY Mark Dalton
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM

The Financial Times put together an interactive web page about the Monoline insurers. You can watch and listen here As an aside, one of the great things about News Corp's purchase of Dow Jones, is that the FT is now online for ...READ»

INNOVATION | 1 comment

Leaders Thrive on Information

BY Kate Sweetman
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Nov 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM

Leaders need to be both broad and deep, and it helps if they can figure out what is coming. Where do they look for the right sorts of information?READ»

BRANDING | 1 comment

China Declares War Against Foreign Luxury

BY Adam Hanft
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 3:01 PM

The upscale districts of Shanghai and Beijing sparkle with high-decibel status, from Armani to Prada to Burberry. The newly-minted Chinese upper class doesn't seem to mind this. But based on a report in this weekend's Financial ...READ»

GUEST HOST: JOHN THACKARA | 4 comments

Market Research Panopticon

Relevancy Score: 100
Thu May 26, 2005 at 4:36 PM

A full-page story in the Financial Times (March 1, page 9) waxed lyrical about 'reality tv for the boardroom' and went on to describe the use of video footage to 'reduce the growing distance between the corporate elite and ...READ»

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Coffee Potlatch

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 92
Tue Mar 27, 2007 at 9:14 PM

Where you work, do you have a shared coffee pot for the entire office? Do you have one of those newfangled single-cup brewing machines? Or do people stop off somewhere on their way to work -- and after lunch? In today's Financial ...READ»

TEAMWORK | 2 comments

Meetings Matter

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 92
Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 1:23 PM

Over at the Nub, contributor Jon comments on a Financial Times article about the value of meetings. While there are many meetings worth participating in, many agree that most meetings don't work. To continue today's informal theme ...READ»

PHILANTHROPY | Comment

Smart Giving: Look Who's on the Board

BY Alice Korngold
Relevancy Score: 92
Sun Oct 11, 2009 at 1:35 PM

Whether you're an individual, company or foundation, making a significant contribution, you can get a good idea of an organization's vitality and prospects for success by taking a look at who's on the board. As the editor and ...READ»

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | 1 comment

The Turnaround, UK Style

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 91
Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 4:54 AM

We learned a lot in the New Economy, and while many businesses flailed and failed, some of the former Net Economy stalwarts are making a rebound -- particularly in England. Today's Financial Times reports on several notable ...READ»

INNOVATION | 1 comment

Innovation: Increase Your Virtual Productivity

BY Robert Buckman
Relevancy Score: 91
Mon Mar 5, 2007 at 7:00 PM

For all of you that trade in traffic jams and road rage for the serene virtual commute along the Internet superhighway every morning, here's a new take on air travel that I think you'll find compelling ... Listen as commentator Lucy ...READ»

ETHICS | Comment

"Everybody Else Is Doing It"

Relevancy Score: 90
Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 1:16 PM

Those may be the five most dangerous words in business, wrote Warren Buffet in a September 27 memo to his top managers at Berkshire Hathaway. According to an article today in The Financial Times, the billionaire investment guru is ...READ»

KYOTO BOX | Comment

Climate Change Competition Finalists Compete for HP-Sponsored Prize

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 85
Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM

Update: John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today. You can read more about it here. The Financial Times and sustainable development charity Forum for the Future announced the ...READ»

GLOBAL BUSINESS | 2 comments

Burberry and the Next Big Brands to Come From the East

BY Anne C. Lee
Relevancy Score: 84
Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM

The plaid giant's significant expansion in Singapore signals the winning strategy for becoming a global brand: Woo Asian customers first.READ»

KYOTO BOX | 8 comments

$5 Solar Powered Kyoto Box Wins HP Climate Change Challenge

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 83
Thu Apr 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM

John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today thanks to an ultra-cheap and simple design with the potential to provide cooked food and clean water to billions. The $5 solar-powered ...READ»

CUSTOMER SERVICE | Comment

Help Me Understand! III

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 76
Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 1:27 PM

I think Seth should enter the next mobile phone-throwing competition in Finland. According to the Financial Times, "Qualification for the event consisted not of heats but explaining why they were unhappy enough with their mobile ...READ»

CALLER ID | 2 comments

Robo.to Bundles Your Outgoing Calls With Video and More—Should We Worry?

BY Zachary Wilson
Relevancy Score: 68
Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM

Remember that pivotal moment in the horror film When A Stranger Calls, when the babysitter gets the news that "The call is coming from inside the house?" It's a jaw-dropping revelation. If the new app Robo.to has anything to do ...READ»

APPLE TABLET | 8 comments

Why You'll Buy Apple's iTablet

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 68
Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 9:54 AM

The rumors surrounding Apple's tablet/netbook PC have worked up into a storm, far more than the drips and drops we've seen before. The various details suggest that it's really coming, it'll be great, and thus you will buy ...READ»

BOOK DISCUSSIONS | 3 comments

Books Worth a Look

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 65
Tue Sep 20, 2005 at 12:03 PM

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs have announced the finalists in this year's Book of the Year Award, which include: John Battelle, The Search Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, ...READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Pushing the European Envelope

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 64
Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 4:39 AM

Last night over dinner, Leonardo Previ and I discussed the state of Italian -- and broader European -- business, as well as the tendency to look to America for new ideas, practices, and processes. Many of the challenges we considered ...READ»

RE:CON WTF 2004 | Comment

Market Failure in the Media Sector

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 63
Sat Apr 3, 2004 at 10:52 AM

Eli Noam is a professor of economics and finance at the Columbia Business School, as well as director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). CITI is a research center that concentrates on strategy, management, and ...READ»

SUSTAINABLE INTELLIGENCE | 1 comment

The True Sustainability Potential of Cloud Computing: Smarter Design

BY Autodesk Sustainable Blogging Team
Relevancy Score: 62
Thu Oct 1, 2009 at 12:03 PM

To hear experts tell it, cloud computing is “the new dot-com,” the “biggest shift computing shift in two decades” or even technology era’s “Cambrian explosion.” But it's also a way to address the enormous need for energy ...READ»

FINANCIAL TIMES | Comment

Sex and the Boardroom

BY Alice Korngold
Relevancy Score: 58
Wed Jul 1, 2009 at 4:00 PM

“Sex and the Boardroom: Is power the ultimate aphrodisiac?” screams from the tip top of the front page of today’s Financial Times in bold letters, referring to a page 10 article by Luke Johnson entitled “The sex snare set ...READ»

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Advertisers in Issue 41

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 51
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:20 AM

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | 8 comments

Jack Welch, A Proponent of Conscious Capitalism?

BY Lewis Perkins
Relevancy Score: 50
Wed Mar 25, 2009 at 2:24 PM

Right now, denizens of young corporate leaders and entrepreneurs who are fighting the good fight –getting investors and their corporate leaders on board with new and more sustainable ways to view business – are perking up at the recent words from former GE Chairman and CEO, Jack Welch. If you have been reading my blog, you have followed my discussions of sustainability as a part of corporate consciousness for the past months. Today, I was pointed towards the latest word from Mr. Welch, publically stating that it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains. Wait, wasn’t it Welch who originally created the “shareholder value movement” in the early 80s? READ»

LEADERSHIP | 15 comments

The World's Most Respected Leaders: Do You Agree?

Relevancy Score: 49
Tue Nov 23, 2004 at 6:31 PM

The Financial Times and Pricewaterhouse Coopers has just published a list of the ten most respected business leaders today. And the envelope.... Bill Gates (Microsoft) Jack Welch (GE) Carlos Ghosn (Nissan) Warren Buffett ...READ»

AUTODESK | Comment

How the IT Sector Can Become a Legitimate Climate Solutions Provider

BY Autodesk Sustainable Blogging Team
Relevancy Score: 47
Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM

The IT industry has long enjoyed a reputation as a "clean" industry, representing significant GDP growth relative to its greenhouse gas footprint (for example, see "Earth Calling: The Environmental Impacts of the Mobile ...READ»

Topic: Financial Times Ltd.

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