Garth Fryer, director of WAE, a leading London-based global service design consultancy, talks about the difficulties of setting up an internal startup company
Do you remember it was just three years ago that the FSA was minded to make VCTS unregulated collective investment schemes Many of us rode forth to do battle. My contribution was to go and see them in their lair at North Colonnade with a fellow VCT director.
Originating from America, mediations are a relatively new concept in England and have only been in practice since the 1990s, but they can have a positive outcome and prevent angry legal battles.
Recently Robert De Niro portrayed a man in his 70s beginning an internship in The Intern. In a case of art imitating life, a number of apprenticeship schemes for over 50s, including one with Barclays, have also been announced.
As the other contestants gasped in theatrical surprise as Scott Saunders stood briefly out of the crowd by quitting The Apprentice, succeeding only the rather better known Katie Hopkins, it didn't entirely hide his shortcomings.
The pig-iron chancellor has effectively told 3,000 business advisors: "Get your coat – you're fired" after his decision to wind down the Business Growth Service.
While the share of female employment in large firms has increased dramatically, this hasn't been reflected in the make-up of executive boards.
I’m not sure if the chancellor is a British Bake Off fan, or can whip a mean carrot cake in the kitchen, but when it comes to the economy he used all the ingredients at his disposal to create an Autumn Statement cake that will taste incredibly sweet for so many people.
George Osborne's Autumn Statement on 25 November once again focussed on the ‘march of the makers’, but what about the nation’s creators working in the £76.9bn creative economy
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