The Boardroom Blog
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
links,
media,
Ros Simmons,
business models,
CEO,
diary,
retail,
chief exec
Chief executives Alex Connock and Ros Simmons were both facing tough challenges in their business last summer. One was fighting a shifting media battlefield seeking new business models; the other was taking her retail company international. Every week, they blogged their thoughts and agendas here on the
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: Ian Wilson,
Aerospace,
military,
Defence,
Government
Given unprecedented fiscal pressures inherited by the new UK Government, there is an increasing recognition that the UK will have to reassess how it seeks to assert itself militarily. Given the poor condition of the country’s public finances, it is a widely-held view that the UK simply cannot afford to buy and support military assets to simultaneously project air, sea and land force capabilities on a global scale; nor can it expect to address several major conflicts while maintaining effective security at home.
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Friday, August 27, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Thought Leadership
| Tags: LSE,
AIM,
Umerah Akram,
David Grundy,
Lloyds Banking Group,
Gerry Beaney,
Andrew Wright,
Mike Stevenson,
Cobbetts,
Seminar
Grant Thornton Manchester is hosting a private dining experience to explore the opportunities, threats, challenges and debates surrounding AIM.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Research,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: innovation,
report,
survey,
strategy,
business models,
retail,
agenda
What questions should you be asking this year if you’re sitting on a retail board? Following on from our survey post last week
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Monday, June 21, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Corruption,
Governance,
Research,
Thought Leadership
Since the draft Bribery Bill was first published in 2008, it is not just the law that has changed but also attitudes to its enforcement.
There has been an unprecedented level of engagement ahead of the enactment of new legislation by the lead law enforcement agency.
However, despite this increased enforcement activity, our
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