Entrepreneurship
Keeping it in the family
Source: Randel S Carlock, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD
Reviewed: 06-Dec-07
News Corp's takeover of Dow Jones is a major deal. But it has raised serious issues for the two battling families involved: the Murdochs and the Bancrofts
Great expectations
Words by: Emilie Filou, World Business
Published: 31-Oct-07
From around the globe, 35 women with something special to offer the planet: wealth creation that's not at others' expense.
IT entrepreneur keeps foot on peddle
Source: Financial Times
Reviewed: 26-Sep-07
Yorkshire IT entrepreneur Peter Wilkinson is happiest doing what he does best - building IT businesses from scratch. He is less happy when he has to deal with financiers from the City of London, which he describes as "farting around down there wasting my bloody time..."
The right kind of optimism
Source: Business Strategy Review
Reviewed: 14-Sep-07
Optimism in business is a double edged sword. On the one hand it generates high levels of activity, motivation and persistence; but on the other hand it discourages us from looking too deeply at our assumptions in case we don't like what we find.
Anita Roddick: business revolutionary
Source: The Independent
Reviewed: 13-Sep-07
Anita Roddick, who died this week, helped start a revolution in the supply chain by emphasising the standards of suppliers from all over the world. She helped reinvent the idea of ethical business and apply it to the global economy.
Search engine street fighter
Source: Fast Company
Reviewed: 22-Aug-07
Jason Calacanis, the founder of dotcom newsletter Silicon Alley Reporter and technology site Engadget, is now turning his sights on no less than Google.
