By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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Dragon boats and running a firm: What business can learn from this unusual sport

May 13, 2016

A dragon boat team has to work in the same direction. If the paddles don’t hit the water at the same time, they knock each other, creating inefficiency. If you don’t reach far enough with the paddles, they don’t deliver enough power and the boat goes slower. If not deep enough, then you are wasting [...]
How new London mayor Sadiq Khan can solve London’s startup funding crisis

May 12, 2016

I would like to congratulate Sadiq Khan on becoming London’s new mayor and it is encouraging that he claims he will be “the most pro-business mayor London has ever had”. There is a booming startup scene in the capital which, if supported, will benefit our City for generations to come. But success is by no [...]
The storm is here: This is what you should expect to happen to P2P following the Lending Club catastrophe

May 11, 2016

It's been a rather dark few days for the alternative lending industry. On Monday, news broke that the chief executive of US giant Lending Club, Renauld Laplanche, had been forced to resign by his board. First, the platform disclosed that it sold near-prime loans to a bank (Bloomberg reported that it was Jefferies) which it knew [...]
How Benjamin Franklin and Martin McGuinness demonstrate why you should make love to your workplace enemies (not literally, of course)

May 10, 2016

In the world of work, we often have an enemy. It could be our boss who hates us and gives us more work than the laws of physics allow. It could be that colleague who blocks everything we do or even think of doing. It could be the finance director who slashes our budget out of [...]
A Decentralised Autonomous Organisation – “DAO” – has already raised a staggering $33m. What does that mean?

May 9, 2016

The first Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) fund has now raised over $33m, making it the second-largest crowdfunding project of all time. DAOs enable people to buy tokens in Ether, the cryptocurrency of Ethereum. Token-holders (who are a bit like shareholders) are then able to invest in smart-contract projects that run on the Ethereum blockchain – operating [...]
The blockchain payments app: How Circle plans to change the way we spend – and think about money

May 9, 2016

You don't pay to send someone an email – to send information from one place to another. And merchants typically pick up the cost of actually making the transaction when you buy something online. And the founders of Circle – the free, blockchain-enabled payments app – don’t think you should pay to send money, either. [...]
US Presidential Election: Clinton doesn’t just need to beat Trump – she needs to jettison Sanders’ poisonous socialism

May 6, 2016

The votes are in – literally. Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, after his strongest competitor Ted Cruz dropped out of the race after a crushing defeat in the Indiana primary. Democrat Bernie Sanders actually remains competitive with Hillary Clinton if you only look at the number of delegates each candidate has won in [...]
The ten interview questions that will guarantee you build your dream team

May 6, 2016

Making great hires is tough. And as a leader, you can spend hours interviewing those with potential in order to build your dream team. To give yourself the best chance of finding people who love what your organisation does and want to be part of its success, use searching interview questions which get to the heart [...]
The first 100 days: What the new mayor of London needs to do to hit the ground running

May 6, 2016

By the time today’s edition of City A.M. hits the streets, Londoners will have voted for their new mayor. With no overnight count, we are in a tantalising no-man’s land between the polling stations closing and the results being announced. By any measure the mayor’s in-tray is going to be full. From housing to transport, new [...]
Does blaming slower growth on the EU referendum just mask deeper problems with the UK economy?

May 6, 2016

James Sproule, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, says Yes. Economic data seem to suggest that UK businesses and consumers alike are holding back on long-term commitments as they are worried about the EU referendum. Quite possibly, but this is only part of the story. Economic slowdown is not just affecting the UK, it seems [...]

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