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The team player at the top
When Europe’s biggest industrial group was hit by a massive bribery scandal, it hired an outsider to transform the company radically. Siemens chief executive Peter Löscher talks to the FT in The Monday Interview
The job: odour assessor
The most common odour is what we call ‘meaty onion’
The Careerist: Networking
How best to leverage your business connections
An online shop window
Internet pioneer Vente Privee sells designer brands
Notes from inside
Martin Lukes’ word from the slammer
Related content and features
On work
Don’t work with your spouse
To allow husbands and wives to co-work as well as co-habit has always struck me as a bad idea financially, socially, practically and emotionally, 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
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
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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