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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Why Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has a business case for T-shirts

November 10, 2014

His Q&A last week revealed some unlikely lessons for leaders. Facebook staff are treated every Friday to a Q&A session with founder Mark Zuckerberg. And last week, that privilege was extended to Facebook users, with a small crowd gathering to volley questions at Zuckerberg and his leadership team. Holding court for just over an [...]
RateSetter founders Peter Behrens and Rhydian Lewis talk banks, Australia and dwarves

November 9, 2014

Ask the founders of a business if they’ve got a good setback story, and they’ll usually give you something fairly typecast. Not in the case of RateSetter. “Pete the painter,” answers Peter Behrens firmly, looking over to co-founder Rhydian Lewis. It seems completely off piste, but it actually shows that rumbling the status quo, [...]
Lessons from the mentoring experts Credit Suisse

November 9, 2014

Personal enrichment and increased job satisfaction are often given as reasons for being both a mentor and mentee. But being either can also have a measurable impact on your career. A 2006 comparative study by research firm Gartner found that both parties are 20 per cent more likely to get a pay rise than colleagues [...]
Active versus passive funds: The great investment debate

November 4, 2014

Index trackers may be in fashion, but are they worth it? Investment legend Warren Buffett told shareholders back in March that he’ll recommend that, when he dies, his widow should put 90 per cent of her money in a fund that tracks the S&P 500 index. “I believe the long-term results from this policy [...]
Michael O’Leary: Ryanair CEO’s four lessons for business leaders

November 3, 2014

Ryanair’s boss proves that plain speaking needn’t hold you back. Ryanair, the no frills budget airline, known for its hard-headed attitude to customer service, raised its profit forecast yesterday, after its half-year profits rose by a third. The news followed a profit warning a year ago, when guidance was slashed. Consistently low fares and [...]
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel talks quarter-life crises and how to tackle the state

November 2, 2014

It's not every day that you get to speak to Silicon Valley royalty. And Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, first outside investor in Facebook, fund manager, and leader of multiple firms, is a dynasty heavyweight. Having just published his new book, Zero to One, he’s keen to talk about some of his latest ideas. [...]
Steven Pinker: How to banish business jargon

October 28, 2014

The cognitive scientist tells Harriet Green why buzzwords just don’t cut the mustard. Business jargon is annoying: “we need to find the synergy here”; “do you feel empowered to do that?” It’s also utterly mystifying. What is a core competency? And how far can you feasibly stretch leverage? Guilty users we may be, but [...]
Don’t laugh: Posh Spice is a model for entrepreneurs

October 27, 2014

The former pop star followed her passion and ignored the critics A FEW eyebrows might have been raised yesterday by the news that Victoria Beckham has headed a list of the UK’s top entrepreneurs of 2014. The accolade – from business magazine Management Today – has been awarded based on her estimated wealth (£210m), increasing [...]
Outside the box: SpaceWays founder David Fuchs talks unwanted cars, Mexico and sexiness

October 26, 2014

Budding entrepreneurs will frequently tell you that it’s heartfelt passion driving them to set up a business. But the substance of many highly-successful companies isn’t all that exciting – think chipmakers, paper shredders, kebab boxes. “It’s not that I always dreamt of owning a storage business. Nobody does that. It’s not sexy to go [...]
City Moves for 24 October 2014 | Who’s switching jobs

October 23, 2014

Johnson & Johnson The health and beauty products maker has appointed Yana Ignatova as head of marketing for northern Europe. Prior to joining the firm, Ignatova spent 17 years at Proctor & Gamble, where she held a senior marketing position. Aviva Investors Charlie Diebel has been appointed head of rates strategy by the asset management [...]

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