Elevate - for business leaders
Thursday, June 25, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: research,
Protect Your Wealth,
business news,
database,
banking collapse,
financial panic,
British Library,
money crisis,
newspapers
Want to put our current economic, business and taxation woes in context? Or might you just need some interesting business tales to tell over a client lunch? Then check out the British Library, which has put two million digitised pages from 19th-century newspapers online. For as little as £6.99 for a day pass, you can have an insightful trawl through the full texts of the business and financial news from as far back as 1800.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: links,
UK,
Digital Britain,
reaction,
comment,
broadband,
White Paper,
Lord Carter,
digital economy
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy
| Tags: business,
recession,
Alistair Darling,
recovery,
forecast,
CBI,
outlook,
Mervyn King,
Institute of Directors
In January business minister Baroness Vadera talked of ‘a few green shoots’ of recovery. This week chancellor Alistair Darling and Bank of England governor Mervyn King suggested a UK recovery as early as the end of 2009.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: business,
success,
TED,
productivity,
Richard St John,
Ted talks
It seems achieving success and doing well in business can be risky. According to marketer and success analyst
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
women,
income,
VIE,
Diary,
Entrepreneur's Diary
For the next 12 weeks, we’ll be following two entrepreneurs – one male, one female – as they go about their work, delving behind the scenes of CEO life and seeing how they deal with the challenges of steering a business through the recession. First up is our female entrepreneur, Ros Simmons, co-owner of direct sales company
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
my big decision,
elevate,
cultural diversity,
fons trompenaars
Ever looked back and thought, ‘That was the moment that changed my life’? In Grant Thornton’s new
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
statistics,
economy,
survey,
financial sector
Grant Thornton’s latest Entrepreneur Insight Survey was conducted at the beginning of the year and covered a period of severe financial crisis. The latest
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership,
Women in business
| Tags: boardroom,
women,
income,
international business report
A rise of only 1% from 2007 meant that just 66% of privately held businesses (PHBs) in the UK have women in the boardroom, according to the latest research from Grant Thornton.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Financing ,
Environment
| Tags: economy,
international,
financial crisis,
employment,
mexico,
political instability
Entrepreneurs in Mexico face political instability as well as economic problems. Hardly surprising, then, that they take care of today and let tomorrow look after itself. How to manage the crisis? Hector Perez provides some insights.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Financing
| Tags: acquisitions,
financial sector,
government investment
Research from Grant Thornton revealed that in the first quarter of 2009 only 422 UK firms were the targets of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions with a total value of £54.1 billion. At 53%, this is about half the number recorded in the first quarter of 2008, when 791 transactions worth £23.1 billion were announced. The latest figure is the lowest deal number recorded since Q4 1993, when UK business were the target of 404 M&A transactions with a total value of £7.1 billion.
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