Jane Sandhurst:
Being in-house accountant for a small company has given me the flexibility to start setting up my own business. I work three days a week, close to home, giving me two days a week to work on my business whilst keeping the benefit of a regular income. The informality which leads to this flexibility also has its price. Two months ago, my boss (the...
NY Wang:
This recession will probably be longer and be slower to recover than all the other recessions in the past 50 years. Despite widespread pessimism this is actually good news. This recession is especially painful for two reasons: it related to a financial crisis and it is synchronised across many different countries. The recovery of a financial...
Clare Wiley:
Let’s face it, there’s a lot of junk on the internet these days. User-generated content has all sorts of benefits and downsides, ranging from valuable intellectual commentary to irrelevant rants about Big Brother contestants. But from a journalistic standpoint, the proliferation of commentary via the internet can have infinite possibilities....
Jung:
Unlike many, back in 2008 my MBA classmate won an Associate job offer with the Investment Banking Division of an American bulge bracket bank. He accepted and started in their London office. After 4 months I expected him to be delighted to be still so gainfully employed. After all, jobs were (and are) so hard to find and other big banks were going...