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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Mentoring meaningfully: BoAML’s Jennifer Boussuge on how to make your help really count

February 25, 2016

We're seeing more women than ever serving on the boards of Britain’s biggest companies. However, with only four years remaining to reach the government’s target (women must occupy a third of all board seats by 2020), companies must do much more to create robust conditions that help women fulfil their executive potential. There are many factors [...]
Equity crowdfunding: What motivates an investor?

February 25, 2016

How do retail investors really make decisions when investing through crowdfunding platforms? A new paper, released today by the London School of Economics, sheds some light. The focus is whether equity crowdfunding provides a robust alternative to financing entrepreneurship. To answer this, authors Saul Estrin and Susanna Khavul have looked at the rationality of investor behaviour, [...]
Donald Trump: After his Nevada victory, could he actually become President of the United States?

February 25, 2016

Brian Darling, a former senior communications director and counsel for senator Rand Paul, says Yes. Donald Trump can become President of the United States. His performances in the Republican primaries, in combination with Hillary Clinton’s unpopularity, are a recipe for a President Trump. Although he lost in Iowa, he has shown strength by winning New Hampshire, [...]
What game theory tells us about David Cameron’s EU deal

February 24, 2016

Game theory is the study of how rules and tactics affect outcomes, and it is pervasive in academic economics. The opening sentence of one of the economics courses at Cambridge pontificates: “Optimal decisions of economic agents depend on expectations of other agents’ actions”. Translated into English, this means that, for someone in a negotiating situation to [...]
EU referendum: Why protecting the pound is the jewel in the crown of Cameron’s deal

February 24, 2016

Following the Prime Minister’s EU renegotiation, the debate is already raging. Myriad topics, from sovereignty to benefits, are dominating the headlines. But what shouldn’t be lost in the detail – and should be celebrated – is David Cameron’s success in protecting the pound. This, alongside related hard-won measures, has far-reaching and positive consequences for Britain’s [...]
Memo from business to politicians: Don’t let the EU referendum paralyse real governing

February 24, 2016

So now it’s official. Britain’s politicians and opinion-formers will spend the next four months in hyper-drive, as they seek to convince the public of the case to leave or remain in the European Union. Many Westminster-watchers have already cleared the decks, reasoning that little else will get done while megaphone diplomacy, claims, and counter-claims dominate the [...]
Is there a future for UK oil and gas?

February 24, 2016

Alison Baker, head of UK oil and gas at PwC, says Yes. Times are tough. Over-supply in the market, lower for longer oil prices and the impending transition to a low carbon world, alongside cost management and working capital issues, are hitting the UK oil and gas industry hard. But it’s not the beginning of the [...]
Deliveroo co-founder Will Shu talks buffalo wings, concerned ex-colleagues and hedging bankers

February 22, 2016

By the time Will Shu, co-founder of Deliveroo, launched his company, he knew acutely what problem he was trying to solve. The former investment banker grew up in Connecticut, went to college in Chicago and then went straight to work for Morgan Stanley in New York. “This was 2001, and things were very different then. The [...]
Is the OECD right that fiscal stimulus is required to boost growth in the global economy?

February 19, 2016

Olivier Vardakoulias, an economist at the New Economics Foundation, says Yes. It is now well established that the idea of “contractionary expansion” – that cutting deficits during economic downturns enhances growth – is wrong. Recent IMF evidence suggests that additional public expenditure has a positive effect on growth, while public expenditure cuts undermine economic performance. Meanwhile, since 2008 western governments have mainly relied on monetary [...]
Your guide to being more charismatic: Lessons from a session with Mr Charisma

February 19, 2016

What is charisma? It’s difficult to put your finger on, but you know it when you see it. That’s the first message of Harley Street-based Richard Reid, aka Mr Charisma, who I recently had a session with. Reid defines charisma in the negative. It’s “not charm” – because that isn’t authentic. Someone who is charismatic [...]

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