Resources
Principal content
Sound solution for music fans
Olive’s digital home audio system marries the convenience of the electronic format with playback of audiophile quality. It can also stream tracks, writes Paul Taylor
The last word: end of the Century
The Japanese limousine is losing its cachet
The counterculture club
Vice Magazine and its multimedia business empire
Eye over air, land and sea
The story behind the founding of Weathernews
Where the internet lives
Mega data centres are the new home of technology services
Related content and features
On work
Managerial bone-heads return

The bear market in bull may be over but the bear market in courage is not. Fear and paranoia are even more a part of corporate life, writes Lucy Kellaway
On Management
Open your mind to innovation

Only complacent leaders believe their way of doing things cannot be improved, an attitude that can lead many astray, writes Stefan Stern
The entrepreneur
Ways to kill a business

Luke Johnson puts together his own top 10 ‘not-to-do’ list for entrepreneurs. Among them? Take on too much debt and get sick.
Personal technology
The Droid joins the battle

Motorola’s new smartphone is the best Android handset so far, with a big touchscreen and slide-out keyboard that make it is a serious challenger, writes Paul Taylor
Judgment Call
How do you pull off a U-turn?
When is a company justified in changing its mind, and how should the process be managed?
Can you teach ethics to students?
Are business schools paying enough attention to ethical questions or are they a personal matter?
Business Books
How Wall St tore itself apart
Aggressive financial reporter Charlie Gasparino, author of ‘The Sellout’, was as close as anyone to the Street’s big, wayward figures before they met their downfall
Three idealists awaiting wisdom
In ‘Googled’, the search group’s founders come across as fallible humans who, if they do make the world a better place, will have done so by happy accident
The dark arts of Nimby campaigns
‘Nimby Wars’ takes a look at the local political shenanigans and Machiavellian manipulation that happen when corporations fight to win zoning and land use battles
FT Business School on video
What makes a good leader?

Deborah Ancona, faculty director of the leadership centre at MIT Sloan, on the importance of leadership
Moving up/Moving out
Insead’s Herminia Ibarra explains how to assume a leadership role - or switch careers entirely
Managing in a downturn
India: the base of the pyramid
Five professors from the Indian School of Business examine issues in emerging markets
Managerial psychology

Nick Epley of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business applies psychological research to work
Defending the Chicago school
Economist Prof Gary Becker on why markets work well and how governments usually “mess things up”






