Apple COO Tim Cook (L) stepped up into Steve Jobs’ (R) big shoes.
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Now you see them, now you don’t: what’s behind the vanishing COO phenomenon?
Running in the family. The Murdochs.
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Succession planning at 21st Century Fox has a very familial feel to it.
Double act. Jain and Fitschen at a Deutsche press conference.
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Taking ultimate responsibility for your company’s actions hasn’t been a popular choice for bosses, but Jain and Fitscher have now set a strong example.
Sources close to the code.
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Software freebies can help businesses grow, innovate and attract staff – assuming they’ve worked out how to protect against the dangers.
Balancing act. JCB is unruffled by Brexit risks.
Dave Catchpole
A digger maker and a banking giant have livened up the EU referendum debate this week. And they have marked out for David Cameron some tricky politics as Britain’s future in Europe comes to a head.
Violators will be rewarded.
Michael Dorausch
An extraordinary decade of change has ensured there is now no clear blue water around any business sector.
Spotting the problem before it’s too late.
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A company’s culture is key to its success (and failure). Here are five examples of bad culture that can lethally infect businesses.
Leading from the front. VW management do battle.
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When Ferdinand Piech took on Martin Winterkorn, the VW Boardroom looked once again like the scene of a family drama… and it was left to the kids on the factory floor to settle things.
Chilling. The Kremlin in Moscow.
Pavel Kazachkov
Russia should be an exciting opportunity for global business, but the president’s “sistema” means the back room rules of the game are king.
Miliband appealed to spooked businesses with a warning about the EU.
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Opening his campaign, Miliband warned an EU referendum would be bad for business. But not holding one could have serious consequences too.
Meetings can devolve into lemming-like groupthink if not well led.
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Meetings can be a real drag, but they’re still essential for certain types of decision-making.
In the pink?
Eric Hossinger
For five years the Chancellor has sought to invigorate returns on investment for businesses, but the pay off is yet to materialise.
The United Nations building in New York.
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The UN has been mulling how to keep our biggest corporations in check for about 40 years. The fear is that the latest move by countries down the supply chain will fail to make any headway.
That’s Professor Corleone to you.
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With appetite for MBAs on the decline, should courses be redesigned with lessons from organised crime in mind?
Wrist reward. Apple arms itself against rivals.
Houang Stephane
Smartwatches will bombard us with data about our internal lives. We risk letting sleep patterns, calorie counts and bio-rhythms dominate our days.
How to stop bank CEOs rolling the dice.
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Behind all the hand-wringing over financial executive pay is a desire to moderate risk-taking. Financial markets may already have the answer to hand.
A square deal for the Square Mile.
Michael Garnett
Scandals at some of our biggest companies have highlighted a painful truth. The voluntaristic governance system put in place by City elites simply doesn’t work.
The ivory tower’s management gurus sometimes seem to have walled off their knowledge from the world.
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It’s important to reconnect management researchers with practitioners so their scholarly work is shared beyond academia.
Push and pull factors. How bankers lose direction.
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If we keep saying high finance is operating in a morality vacuum, we will miss the chance to understand and fix its problems.
How to cut out the middleman: employ the middleman.
Quinn Dombrowski
How the gurus of good governance made a powerful case, and put their industry at risk.