In the three years since Hurricane Sandy, Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly has managed to turn the struggling company around. Here's how he did it – without being hated by employees.
Research from One Poll recently revealed that several SME bosses rely on post-it notes as their only form of long-term planning. This, however, may not be a bad thing given that the pieces of sticky paper have strangely become the latest form of boosting innovation.
While 2014 saw all of Britain’s leading manufacturers have at least one female director on board, a recent EEF study urged firms to do more to tackle the industry’s outdated “dirty and unglamorous” image. As such, we asked four female manufacturers about the gender divide in the industry – and discovered how crucial it was to nurture talent from classroom to boardroom.
Following the breaking news of the TalkTalk cyber-attack, Kevin Foster, testing services manager at MTI Technology, explains how the company was hacked – and how SMEs can avoid falling prey to the same attack.
While employers are crying out for science recruits, several studies have pointed to the fact that graduates often pursue different careers after study due to a lack of desire to work in the field. According to Dan Sullivan, enthusiasm for science can be ingrained at a young age, and his company, Empiribox, aims to rally up some future scientists.
Companies in cities across the UK have begun to vie for top tech talent in order to build capabilities to innovate and cater to demand, according to the latest “Tech Cities Job Watch” report by Experis.
Social media platform Twitter announced it added just 4m new monthly users in its most recent quarter – which sent its stock tumbling. Determined to get the lines on the graph pointing skyward instead of near-flatlining, the company is rolling out a bunch of TV adverts – the first of which has been confusing to say the least.
Ideas Britain has officially launched “Innovation in Sport", a competition supported by Manchester City FC to uncover creative ideas that have the potential to forge "real innovation" in the world of sport.
As schools cry out for more teachers and those who are in the classroom see their workload increase, research by Censuswide found that 74.5 per cent of teachers believed students are more adept at using tech than they are. It’s to ease this burden that Aldo de Pape set up cloud-based learning platform TeachPitch.
Real Business asked investors and applicants from BBC's Dragons’ Den what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling – from applying to be on the show to standing in front of the Dragons.
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