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Emma Haslett
Web reporterEmma Haslett joined Management Today after three years geeking out at various business websites, plus an unfortunate stint at the health and fitness supplement of a national newspaper. As a committed exercise phobe, it quickly became clear things weren’t going to work out.
Emma’s proudest achievements include being awarded the public speaking prize in year 10 and being told by Boris Johnson that she had asked a ‘jolly good question’. One interviewee even went as far as to describe her interview technique as ‘gentle and tender’. At least, that’s what she thinks he was describing.
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Latest Articles From This Author
Decisions: Will Wynne, Arena flowers
- The co-founder of the online flower retailer gives his best and worst decisions in business.
Do women wear low-cut tops to get ahead?
- A study suggests women bare their cleavages to get ahead at work. We're a bit suspicious of that one...
Spain gets set to become the most austere of them all
- Ay caramba - the Spanish government's about to deliver its 'most austere' budget ever. Which will be closely watched by EU finance ministers...
Davis tells it like it is
- Quote of the day: 'They look at the front bench, they see them all very well dressed, well turned out, well fed, and perhaps feel that they're in a different world to them' - MP David Davis warns that the Conservative party risks looking out of touch. What, after David Cameron and George Osborne's 'pasty-gate' photocalls, you mean?
Halfords cashes in on petrol panic
- Stat of the day: 225% - the amount sales of jerry cans have increased at Halfords.
UK business' Basil Fawlty attitude is disappearing
- Stereotypes, begone: a survey suggests customer service is becoming increasingly important to UK businesses. Nil points to the French, though...
Orf with their heads: planning review disappoints Queen of Shops
- Mary Portas is apparently none too pleased that the government left one of her most radical recommendations out of its National Planning Framework.
E.On and Npower shelve UK nuclear plans
- The companies' joint venture has put plans to build two plants on hold after it failed to get funding. Meanwhile, queues are building up at petrol stations...
Ashton goes where no movie star has gone before
- Stat of the day: 500 - The number of people who have bought tickets for flights on the Virgin Galactic - making it (potentially) the most profitable enterprise the brand has ever attempted.
Cameron's pasty claims backfire
- Quote of the day: 'What we really need from Mr Cameron right now is not advertising but clarity and leadership' - After claims by David Cameron that he's a fan of pasties and that 'the last one I bought was from the West Cornwall Past Company. I seem to remember I was at Leeds station at the time' were disproved (the West Cornwall Pasty Company at Leeds closed in 2007), the company's CEO, Gavin Williams, gives the PM a stern rebuke.
Apple's iPad 3 troubles begin
- The company's been slapped on the wrist by Australia's consumer watchdog, which says it must stop claiming the iPad 3 is 4G.
Third of businesses 'not interested' in ex-public sector workers
- A survey suggests businesses don't think ex-public sector workers will be well enough equipped to work in business. Which doesn't bode well, does it?
Profits slide at Lloyd's of London after a catastrophic year
- The insurance market made a £516m loss last year, after earthquakes, tornadoes and floods conspired to create the most catastrophic year in its 324-year history.
20% of sole traders can't afford to create jobs
- A survey suggests businesses want to take on employees - it's just too expensive, and too complicated to do it.
OECD: the eurozone must make 'ambitious structural reforms'
- The European policy body has put itself on a collision course with just about everyone in the eurozone by suggesting it's time to raise the bailout fund.
Merkel rules out a Greek exit
- Quote of the day: 'We have taken the decision to be in a currency union. It would be catastrophic if we said, "We no longer want you"' - Angela Merkel made it clear on last night's Newsnight that she isn't entertaining the idea of Greece leaving the Eurozone. The German chancellor conceded that it might be a 'long and arduous road', but insisted eurozone leaders should be behind the country.
Cairns wins first Twibel trial
- Stat of the day: £90,000 - The amount won by former New Zealand cricket captain Chris Cairns in the first Twitter libel trial in the UK.
PG Tips wins Facebook battle of the brands
- The tea company is the most engaged brand in the UK when it comes to its Facebook followers. Not bad going.
Royal Mail to IPO by 2013?
- Sources have admitted the Government's hoping to float Royal Mail - or at least part of it - by the end of next year, in a move that could be worth £4bn.
Babcock dives head-first into £350m sub refit contract
- The engineering firm will upgrade HMS Vengeance, replacing its nuclear core - which should secure 2,000 jobs in Plymouth.










