Revolutionary human resource management has once again seen Google named the world’s best employer. How, asks Elizabeth Matsangou, is the tech powerhouse so good at recruiting talent and nurturing ...

It’s been more than a century since the suffragette movement forced the world to pay attention to the voices of women and the cultural barriers blocking them. But fast-forward to the present day and ...

Steelworkers lined the streets of Brussels earlier this year to call on the European Commission to extend its support for EU steel and buffer the waves upon waves of cheap Chinese steel flooding the ...

With organisations to run and big orders to fill, it’s easy to see how some CEOs inadvertently sacrifice quality for quantity. By integrating a system of total quality management it’s possible to have ...

In recent years, two big names in the grocery business have been making gains at the expense of almost all rivals. German supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl have made a massive success of their low-cost ...

In the early 2000s, the world of photography changed forever. Though digital cameras had been widespread since the mid-1990s, the technology did not produce sufficiently high-quality results for ...

Perhaps we have finally reached that point – the moment of clarity in which we realise our relentless accumulation of things is not actually as satisfying as we once believed it to be. Ingrained in us ...

This was to be a momentous year for Volkswagen. Over 22 years after auto analyst Maryann Keller predicted the company would become market leader, the Wolfsburg-based manufacturer finally beat Toyota ...

Following the announcement that Nike co-founder Phil Knight is standing down as Chairman, Elizabeth Matsangou explores the legacy left behind by the marketing genius who created the world’s biggest ...

Paul Polman took the reins at Unilever during one of the most precarious periods in the company’s 150-year history. It was during the aftermath of the financial crisis that the Dutch businessman ...

Though the budget carrier revolution changed the face of travel, Ryanair’s dire reputation has shown that relying on low cost as the sole business and marketing model is no longer enough. Now the ...

Tax evasion, bribery, mismanagement and corruption are just a few of the unsavoury details that plagued the final years of a British institution. Rita Lobo investigates what went wrong for MG Rover, ...