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Gamekeeper turned poacher
As head of the FSA, the UK watchdog, John Tiner overhauled insurance regulation; now he is now working to reshape the industry as chief executive of Resolution, the financial services investment company
The job: ‘Agent Million’
The person who tells people they have won £1m
The last word: end of the Century
The Japanese limousine is losing its cachet
The counterculture club
Vice Magazine and its multimedia business empire
Related content and features
On work
Too much information in the office
Staff are responding to overload by not digesting anything. No one reads e-mails any more – except from the boss, 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
Sound solution for music fans
Olive’s digital home audio system marries the convenience of the electronic format with quality playback. It can also stream tracks, 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
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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