Marconi – Mayo
Successful businesses are more effective than their competitors in delivering goods and services that their customers want....
Argentina
Argentina, stumbling through yet another crisis, is the world’s most unsuccessful economy. There are many countries poorer. &nbs...
Numbers
On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me The One Minute Manager, by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. I thoug...
Enron – privatisation
Ask why? was the slogan of Enron’s high profile television advertising campaign against regulation. Regulators around the world a...
Nuclear power
The inquiry into Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was the longest and costliest ever. The previous records were held by an inquiry which rep...
Globalisation
Business leaders applaud it, protesters demonstrate against it, Thomas Friedman writes a column about it, and politicians tell us it is...
Railtrack regulation
The last regulatory review of Railtrack was based on the principles applied to all privatised monopoly utilities – gas transmissi...
Insurance
The insurance industry is well equipped to deal with natural disasters in the developed world: the hurricanes that regularly hit ...
Business biographies: Jack Welch
A friend has finally, at the age of 50, learned to swim. It took him that long to find a good swimming teacher.
Swimming teach...
Ownership rights
In 1997, the smog from Indonesia’s forest fires not only engulfed the country itself but also spread over large areas of South-East Asi...