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 […]
Image by Jérémy Barande / Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57236208 The luxury goods billionaire held a 5.7% stake in Carrefour, which raised €724 million by selling shares on the market in an accelerated book-building process. The stake was sold off at €16 per share after Arnault first took a 9.8% holding at […]
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 […]
Tipalti polled over 300 CFOs and CEOs across the UK, uncovering the key complexity drivers for the finance department following the pandemic, as well as what the greatest shifts of focus have been for CFOs and highlights the bigger demands placed on them by the CEO and board. Tipalti’s findings shed further light on how […]
Image by TechCrunch - 509306865DH00014_TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88464732 Medical start-up Theranos was founded by Holmes in 2003 and reached a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014. The company claimed it would revolutionise the medical testing space with a new blood diagnostic technology that was capable of performing several tests on […]
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.
This month, we tell you about the amazing work done by the Blessings in a Backpack charity through speaking to its ex and current CEOs - Brooke Wiseman and Erin Kerr. Blessings in a Backpack is a non-profit organisation that offers access to weekend nutrition to kids who face food insecurity by providing them with a bag of child-friendly, satisfying, and healthy food.
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.
Of course, it’s clear to see there have been losers and winners as well as businesses somewhere in between, but the exact impacts and rates of recovery and change vary according to industry. Not every business has managed to fulfil the demands of customers. Some were caught by surprise and failed to scale in time. […]
In September last year, multinational tech company Nvidia struck a deal with Japan’s SoftBank Group to purchase UK-based chip designer Arm Holdings. However, the proposed deal has sparked much concern. In April, the UK government announced it would be examining the potential sale of Arm on national security grounds. In addition to Musk, e-commerce giant […]
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