“I bless this business deal.”
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No other nation has conjoined business success and piety quite like America has. Is Donald Trump’s election a strange perversion of this tradition?
Customer-facing roles may soon be taken over by cheaper, friendlier and more knowledgeable robotic retail assistants.
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Business Briefing: when robots and customers meet
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Customers might prefer digital robots who don't judge for now but physical robots with empathy may be the customer service workers of the future.
President-elect Trump’s twitter account has the power to devastate companies’ share prices.
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Tweet-shaming from politicians isn’t the best way to regulate companies – it hurts investments, shareholders and ultimately the economy.
CEOs who are more confident are less likely to sell their own stock in a company.
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If a company is led by an overconfident CEO, the firm is less likely to invest in corporate social responsibility measures like workforce diversity.
Shareholder activism is growing worldwide.
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Australia’s rules on how investors engage with companies, coupled with the clout of superannuation investor groups, means there’s potential for more shareholder activism.
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The last 20 years of failure to tackle boardroom excess should prompt a more radical approach.
They might seem innocuous, but tweets can have very real effects on company stock prices.
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Social media communication like Twitter can influence investor decisions in an unequal way and whether the company intends it or not, research finds.
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The benchmark scheme that protects cocoa farmers and local communities could be toppled as big players rethink their role.
The new head of the Business Council of Australia, Grant King, needs to change his tune to remain relevant.
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The new president of the Business Council of Australia Grant King will need to change his message on company tax and other issues to really remain relevant.
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Skyscrapers are the new cathedrals – but are we worshipping a false idol?
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A new crowdfunded show about the Cuban revolution prepares to shed new light on the leader.
This lady’s for turning.
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Theresa May has dropped her pledge to put workers on company boards. It’s a big concession to vested business interests.
Commonwealth Bank is just one of a few Australian businesses that have faced shareholder votes against executive pay.
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Two experts debate whether or not Australian executive pay should be benchmarked against that of US companies.
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We have got stuck in a rut. Every month we explain away changes in retail spending with a lazy look to the skies.
Not exactly a sustainability agenda.
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Trump has promised to abolish Obama’s Clean Power Plan and back out of the Paris climate accord. But business could become a key firewall that won’t let Obama’s sustainability legacy die.
Australian businesses should learn from the example of Brexit and wait to act.
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Australian businesses should wait and rethink long term strategies in response to Trump’s election in the US.
Policy uncertainty within government surrounding climate change complicates efforts by carbon-intensive companies to develop a long-term strategy.
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Managers from carbon intensive companies are holding off on long term emissions strategies because of uncertainty around regulations and policies, new research finds.
Research has found franchisees don’t to do their homework before signing up to see whether their business could be terminated “at will”.
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The law assumes franchisees do their financial and legal homework when it comes to signing up to a chain, but research shows franchisees are often overconfident and ignorant of the risks.
Transferrable skills include ribbon cutting.
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Donald Trump has never held public office, but executive and global leadership are wholly interlinked so business offers some important lessons for the president-elect.
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An industry in crisis needs a government that can deliver help where it’s needed.