With a current net worth of $105.6 billion (according to Forbes), Warren Buffett is one of the most successful and influential investors and business magnates in the world. The son of a US congressman, Buffett first bought stock when he was 11 years old and first filed taxes at 13. In 1956, he founded Buffett Partnership, which was renamed Berkshire Hathaway after the company bought a textile manufacturing firm with the same name. Today, Berkshire Hathaway is a multinational conglomerate holding company which owns and operates over 60 companies, including Helzberg Diamonds, battery manufacturer Duracell, insurer Geico and the Dairy Queen restaurant chain.
We introduce you to Wascosa – a Swiss company focussed on the hiring out and management of freight cars for rail traffic and a pioneer in the industry. Peter Balzer is the Chief Executive Officer of Wascosa and works closely with Philipp Müller, Chairman of the Board of Directors. Peter has been in charge of Wascosa's fortunes since 2014 and since then has helped the company to become the fourth largest wagon leasing company in Europe. He tells us all about it over the next few pages.
Following Nick Beighton stepping down as CEO of Asos, Doug Baird, founder and Chief Executive of New Street Consulting Group, looks at the challenge for CEO successors keen to take fresh eyes to a new role.
As life is slowly getting back to some form of normality and international travel is resuming, we’ve gathered the most anticipated luxury hotel openings for the next year. From a brand new Nobu Hotel in the heart of Marrakech to two new W Hotels in Europe and North America, the list promises to get you excited for new adventures in 2022.
A new global private aviation community has launched with the aim to redefine the world of private air travel through its new app and transparent business model.
TikTok celebrated its fifth birthday in September. Five years! And if you feel like this time has flown by impossibly fast - then you’re probably a TikTok user.
Many critics of social inequality highlight the fact that differences in income have grown in recent decades – a manager today earns much more relative to his employees than in the past. Dr Rainer Zitelmann dives into the ins and outs of the trend.
San Francisco is home to two of the great loves of my life: excellent wine and world-leading tech. As the founder of both an online wine store and a global tech platform, Napa and Silicon Valley speak to my passion for evolving and transforming human efficiency through tech advancement and a dry, medium-bodied Chardonnay.
That simple gesture, long seen as a standard of goodwill and psychological safety, is now creating a lot of head-scratching. It’s burned into American work culture, yet many people are uncomfortable literally reaching out in the way they used to. So, what’s office etiquette going to look like once the pandemic clears? In two hands, […]
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