What a day looks like
Autumn 2011: A day with the Chief Executive Officer of Indus Towers, the world’s largest tower company serving telecom operators. BS Shantharaju
Profile
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- Business
One person can make a difference
Web Exclusive: Few people decide to change the direction of their lives as completely as Dame Amelia Fawcett has. After helping to build the European office of an American investment bank into an international powerhouse, she took a midlife break that was an adventure in itself which helped her decide on a new career path. Fawcett talked with Stuart Crainer about her life journey and what she believes the future holds for her.
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Leaders Direct: The Leadership Gene
Web Exclusive: For an engineering company in a rapidly changing world, innovation is central, and in this interview with Richard Brass, Jürg Oleas talks about how to make innovating a habit, what makes a leader and how, when it comes to leadership, charisma just doesn’t count.
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What it takes: Richard Downs
Spring 2011:
Richard Downs is founder and chief executive of the ski, cruise and family holiday company, Iglu.com. He graduated from London Business School in 1998.
- Strategy
As much as I can
Web Exclusive:
Frank McCosker leads one of the most creative and influential teams in Microsoft — the team that serves the UN, the EU, the World Bank and other global public institutions with whom he has pioneered a new class of private-public partnership.
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Leading the way: Ursula Burns
Web Exclusive:
The ability to persevere in the face of what may seem impossible odds is the story of Ursula Burns, who began her career as an engineering intern at Xerox and rose to become CEO of the company in 2009.
Handy Essentials
Summer 2010:
Charles Handy, who has labelled himself a social philosopher, is arguably the first and most insightful commentator on the modern company's role in today's rapidly changing society. eBSR presents the distilled and essential Handy.
Where business and politics meet
Winter 2007:
Strategy is an essential ingredient of business success. In this interview, David Bach tells Tom Brown how he came to believe that nonmarket strategy is just as important for future corporate success.
Branching out
Summer 2007:
What happens when a company transforms its technological capabilities by entering a "new to the firm" niche?
Keeping score
Autumn 2006:
The dilemma of what to measure is as old as business itself. From Frederick Taylor's scientific management at the turn of the twentieth century to contemporary notions of shareholder value, managers have soughts reassurance and motivation in measurement.
Driving force: Sir Martin Sorrell
Summer 2006:
In a wide ranging interview with Des Dearlove, Sir Martin Sorrell talks of the importance of his MBA, his post-Blackberry reading habits, Bill Shankly, leadership and how he allocates his time.
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