01 Dec 2003
Lastminute.com, which Brent Hoberman co-founded in 1998, has come a long way from its humble beginnings as an online bucket shop. As well as being one of Europe's favourite travel and leisure websites, it is now that rare creature, a profitable consumer web business. A compulsive e-mailer, Hoberman...
01 Dec 2003
| by Kai Peters, chief executive of Ashridge business school
The latest book by Tom Peters is an iconoclastic, even nihilistic, rant, as its author is proud to proclaim. It's a blast, and highly provocative, declares Kai Peters.
01 Dec 2003
| by Vanessa Leeson, managing director of Parcelforce Worldwide
I usually have a novel or biography to read and a book to browse. I'm reading Yann Martel's Man Booker winner of 2002, Life of Pi, and also Meetings with Remarkable Trees. This gem by Thomas Pakenham has 60 awe-inspiring tree biographies - all great survivors and a reminder that all living things need...
01 Dec 2003
| by Dr Hermann Hauser, a director and co-founder of specialist VC firm Amadeus Capital Partners
Good on feelings, suspect on science is how Hermann Hauser sees these ideas.
01 Dec 2003
| by Carol Fisher, a partner at the Ingram Partnership
At last, a book to help us deal with this recurring nightmare. Carol Fisher reports.
01 Dec 2003
| by Keith James, chairman of law firm Eversheds
The choice for a bookworm is not easy. If I had to pick a novel it would be The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa - a wonderful account of a Sicilian aristocratic family in the 1860s facing political, economic and cultural change.
01 Dec 2003
| by Scott Payton and David Bowen
The man who founded Orange is trying another high-tech phone business. Is 3 one risk too many for Li Ka-shing? Scott Payton and David Bowen report.
01 Dec 2003
| by Anthony Thorncroft
The output of contemporary artists, shocking and titillating, makes a regular splash in the dailies, both broadsheet and tabloid. But beyond the prurient outrage or cool analysis is a well-oiled business machine, says Anthony Thorncroft.
01 Dec 2003
| by Alexander Garrett
Getting the right professional help is a powerful tool in growing your business, says Alexander Garrett.