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17.05.2012

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Bankruptcy... A Kodak Moment?

Filing for bankruptcy… a Kodak moment” joked someone in an elevator at one of Goldman Sachs offices, according to the twitter account @GSElevator. On Thursday 19 January, (ex) photographic giant ...
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  • Thursday January 26, 2012

About turns on the road to academia

In the age of privilege, when very few attended and graduated from university, achieving the degree of Doctor was a rare feat even amongst the educated. Doctors were revered in ...
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  • Thursday January 19, 2012

Brand Identity

Bloomberg BusinessWeek recently published an article by Larry Popelka titled “The Key to Success? Your Corporate Mission.”  It investigates the particular case of the Chevrolet Volt and it is perfectly ...
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  • Thursday January 19, 2012

Democracy and capitalism: an unhappy marriage?

When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on 15 September 2008, it marked the most dramatic collapse of an U.S. firm in history. In many ways, the name of the once ...
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  • Thursday January 19, 2012

The Paper days are over

Take the tube and read a newspaper. Most people there are doing the same, but their number is in rapid decline.  Between 2007 and 2009, newspaper circulation dropped by 25% ...
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  • Thursday December 8, 2011

Are you a Gangster?

Walking up towards the exit from the SAF lecture theatre I saw two people approach me who asked that exact question. “Are you a gangster?”  Unsurprisingly, it made a few ...
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  • Thursday December 8, 2011

Why is the UK economy sinking, too?

The Eurozone crisis has all the traits of a perfect story: a choral drama with a fuzzy and mistrusted antihero, pompous and obscure villains, few and powerless heroes, and many ...
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The UK should adopt the Euro

In last Wednesday’s Autumn Statement, George Osborne confirmed that the UK economy’s health was far worse than his office had expected. He blamed the ongoing Eurozone crisis of negatively affecting ...
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A Western tragedy

As a result of the so-called “Euro debt crisis” – whose solution seems to be too distant still to be clear – several of the euro club countries have been ...
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  • Thursday December 1, 2011

Autumn harvest?

On Tuesday, George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, updated Parliament on the current economic situation of our nation, and what the government plans to do about it. The Autumn Statement ...
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  • Thursday December 1, 2011