May 23, 2012

Choose the English that helps you win

As the language spreads, people will speak and write it in different ways

May 16, 2012

Tobacco companies versus the plain truth

The state has the right to regulate smoking

May 9, 2012

Fleet-footed groups can outrun the critics

Nike provides a timeline of how companies attempt to build a decent reputation

May 2, 2012

Employers of the aged find law a grey area

Supreme Court rulings have darkened the picture

Apr 25, 2012

Car culture is taking a back seat

If the fall in driving endures, the implications will be far-reaching

Apr 18, 2012

Let’s end the ‘we will stop giving’ chit-chat

Verses on the great Givers-Back (with apologies to the late Dr Seuss)

Apr 11, 2012

Damien Hirst’s four faces of commerce

Not many traders have so exquisitely called the top of the market

Apr 4, 2012

Only the brave tell the world their woes

Public probes bring pressure to remedy failings

Mar 28, 2012

Penny has yet to drop for English speakers

Colloquial terms should be avoided in conversation

Mar 14, 2012

Watches that defy the ravages of time

Lessons from the world of luxury timepieces

Mar 7, 2012

Commerce and the arts need a truer love

The case for business sponsorship should not be hard to make

Feb 29, 2012

Executives speak a language of their own

The secret to aiming higher than Globish

Feb 22, 2012

Lessons from the hard streets of Athens

Economic crisis provides the starkest evidence of where power lies

Feb 15, 2012

Groups right to say ‘we do’ to gay wedlock

Companies should take pride in being bolder than presidential candidates

Feb 8, 2012

The upside of beating Britain to death

Where does the country’s favourite pastime of national self-denigration come from?

Feb 1, 2012

Don’t jump aboard the anti-Dow bandwagon

The chemicals group is not the principal villain of the Bhopal affair

Jan 25, 2012

People are right to be angry over pensions

Companies ought to negotiate a solution over closures of their final-salary schemes

Jan 18, 2012

Employers need help with the mentally ill

Managers often struggle to deal effectively with struggling staff because they don’t understand it

Jan 11, 2012

What they don’t teach you at Lady Gaga U.

Predicting public taste remains hazardous as ever

Jan 4, 2012

The value of mentors who have been there

Lessons for business from a programme fighting Aids in Africa

About Michael

Michael Skapinker Michael Skapinker's column on Business and Society appears on Thursdays. An assistant editor and editor of the FT’s special reports, he was born in South Africa and educated at Witwatersrand and Cambridge universities. He began his journalistic career in Greece and joined the FT in London in 1986.

He received the Work Foundation Members’ Award for his contribution to the understanding of working life and was named Columnist of the Year at the 2008 WorkWorld Media Awards.

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