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Your eyes away from home
Video security systems for monitoring your home when you are not there do not need to be a nightmare to set up, writes Paul Taylor, who tries out the Vue Personal Video Network. The remote camera system delivers on its promise to allow users to ‘see what you are missing’
An online shop window
Internet pioneer Vente Privee sells designer brands
The hidden victims of recession
Migrants are forced into the shadows in Dubai
Notes from inside
Martin Lukes’ word from the slammer
Demand at 30,000 feet
Airconomy finds a profitable niche
Related content and features
On work
Working longer can be good for us
Work can be stressful while you are doing it but it is preferable to not working. It gives us structure, status and money, writes Lucy Kellaway
On Management
Big lessons from Little Chef
What happens at the restaurant’s branches when the camera crew is not there? That is the question that matters, writes Stefan Stern
The entrepreneur
Actors on a corporate stage
In business, the key players are not robots but humans, impelled by emotions and irrational dreams of glory or revenge, writes Luke Johnson
Personal technology
Plaything with a purpose
A useful alternative to lugging around a laptop, the MPro120 may help pico-projectors shed their image as mere gimmicky gadgets, writes Paul Taylor
Judgment Call
Can you teach ethics to students?
Are business schools paying enough attention to ethical questions or are they a personal matter?
When to confront hostile critics
The chief executive of Novartis recently hit back aggressively at animal rights activists. What is the appropriate response?
Business Books
The dark arts of Nimby campaigns
In ‘Nimby Wars’, a look is taken at the local political shenanigans and Machiavellian manipulation that happen when corporations fight to win zoning and land use battles
Leadership prophet
In ‘The Essential Bennis’, Patricia Ward Biederman collects works by the prolific author and leadership theorist Warren Bennis, adviser to four US presidents
From mystery to innovation
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, argues in ‘The Design of Business’ that the key to success is ‘design thinking’
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
In a series of videos, Wharton faculty members give a global overview of the economic turmoil
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”
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