Rupert Murdoch

Keeping it in the family

Source: Randel S Carlock, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy and Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD

Reviewed: 06-Dec-07

News Corp's takeover of Dow Jones is a major deal. But it has raised serious issues for the two battling families involved: the Murdochs and the Bancrofts

 
Eaga's John Clough

Partnership benefits

Source: John Clough, eaga

Reviewed: 12-Dec-07

A prime mover in bringing energy efficiency to poorer households, eaga sees its unusual partnership structure as an indispensable aid to achieving its goal, says John Clough, eaga's CEO

 
Julian Birkinshaw

Innovate or die

Source: Morice Mendoza, World Business editor

Reviewed: 12-Dec-07

From Ford and General Motors 100 years ago to Google today, management models can provide great competitive advantage. In the past, companies found scientific and organisational models, which enabled them to mass-produce products faster and more cheaply or to organise global businesses more efficiently.

 

Growing sustainably

Source: Matt Shepherd-Smith, TBWA/London

Reviewed: 06-Dec-07

Using its trademark alternative approach, ad agency TBWA is applying ‘disruptive ideas' to turn businesses and consumers on to greater environmental awareness

 

Never-ending cycle

Source: Michael Creamer, Cushman & Wakefield

Reviewed: 12-Dec-07

A CSR approach to managing the real estate of the workplace can make big improvements to a company's performance, says Michael Creamer, head of client solutions, EMEA, at Cushman & Wakefield

 
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Leading the way on climate friendly business

Source: Joe Gill

Reviewed: 02-Dec-07

The Dorchester Hotel played host to a group of companies pioneering the reduction of carbon emissions at a dinner for the World Business Green Business Awards, in association with INSEAD, on November 29. The event was sponsored by eaga.