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.
Who Is Sara Blakely? Sara Blakely — born February 1971 — is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. Despite having no experience in fashion, retail, or business leadership, Sara Blakely founded the now famed shapewear company Spanx in 2000, having accidentally thought up the idea while attempting to look her best in a pair of white […]
Elon Musk is the billionaire entrepreneur and business magnate responsible for co-founding the cutting-edge companies PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX, amongst others. Over the years, he has been compared to the likes of Steve Jobs and Henry Ford, and even Iron Man, with actor Robert Downey Jr allegedly modelling his portrayal of Tony Stark off of […]
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.
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.
Who Is Elizabeth Holmes? American former businesswoman Elizabeth Holmes was the founder and CEO of the now-defunct health technology company Theranos, which Holmes established in 2003 at just 19 years old. In 2015, Forbes magazine broadcasted her as “the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire” in the US, while Inc. Magazine called her the “next Steve […]
A true veteran of the automotive industry, Torsten spent more than 13 years rising through a variety of positions at BMW Group. He took on roles in the Sales and Marketing Division, but became best-known for his impressive tenure as Director of the MINI brand between 2000 and 2003. He successfully relaunched MINI internationally as […]
Image by Alessio Jacona from Rome, Italy - Mark Zuckerberg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72121838 Frugality or thriftiness might not be words commonly associated with the ultra-wealthy, yet a small subset of the world’s richest people are well-known for their penny-pinching habits. Arguably, it is this characteristic that has enabled them such huge financial success in […]
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