Many critics of social inequality highlight the fact that differences in income have grown in recent decades – a manager today earns much more relative to his employees than in the past. Dr Rainer Zitelmann dives into the ins and outs of the trend.
San Francisco is home to two of the great loves of my life: excellent wine and world-leading tech. As the founder of both an online wine store and a global tech platform, Napa and Silicon Valley speak to my passion for evolving and transforming human efficiency through tech advancement and a dry, medium-bodied Chardonnay.
Who Is Elizabeth Holmes? American former businesswoman Elizabeth Holmes was the founder and CEO of the now-defunct health technology company Theranos, which Holmes established in 2003 at just 19 years old. In 2015, Forbes magazine broadcasted her as “the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire” in the US, while Inc. Magazine called her the “next Steve […]
A true veteran of the automotive industry, Torsten spent more than 13 years rising through a variety of positions at BMW Group. He took on roles in the Sales and Marketing Division, but became best-known for his impressive tenure as Director of the MINI brand between 2000 and 2003. He successfully relaunched MINI internationally as […]
Image by Alessio Jacona from Rome, Italy - Mark Zuckerberg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72121838 Frugality or thriftiness might not be words commonly associated with the ultra-wealthy, yet a small subset of the world’s richest people are well-known for their penny-pinching habits. Arguably, it is this characteristic that has enabled them such huge financial success in […]
Chris, I believe that you and Josie have just been involved in a project on this topic in collaboration with London Business School. How did that come about? Chris: Josie and I both run independent executive coaching practices and have worked very well together on coaching briefs like this in the past. I was invited […]
Or perhaps the CEO of a huge internationally renowned company, a mega-successful investor or the heir of an ultra-wealthy family. In recent years, however, there have been more and more examples of celebrities reaching billionaire status through a business they started as a consequence of their career in entertainment. These are people who don’t wear […]
If there are three words I have to choose to describe The Nautilus Maldives, they would be unscripted, spontaneous and liberating. It’s so much more than the next ultra-luxe Maldivian resort – it’s a place designed to remind you of and celebrate the freedom we often forget we have; the freedom to wake up without […]
For our September Brands on a Mission feature, we introduce you to Sprout World – a Danish company dedicated to developing sustainable and plantable tools. We hear all about it from its founder Michael Stausholm over the next few pages.
In the UK, the probate genealogy industry is not held in the same respect as it is by the country's European neighbours in France and Germany, where the verification of estates by professional firms where someone has died without leaving a will is considered vital. And yet we step back from placing probate genealogy firms fairly and squarely within the estate administration process, writes Danny Curran, founder and CEO of Finders International.
Image by Rajasekharan Parameswaran - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87188999 Robyn Rihanna Fenty, now known mononymously as Rihanna, was born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, in a three-bedroom bungalow. Her childhood was defined by pain, abuse, drug use, poverty, and illness. But, with all odds stacked against her, Rihanna went on […]
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