How to get your firm to pay for your EMBA February 22, 2012 ALTHOUGH executive MBAs can offer tangible benefits to both employees and employers, they also impose large upfront costs. A course at Kellogg/Hong Kong UST Business School, the world’s leading programme, is highly-priced at $143,300 (£91,300). The London Business School (LBS) charges a more conservative £58,900. Many students ask their employers to meet this burden. But [...]
Benefits for all with a bring your own device policy February 22, 2012 AS THE proliferation of smartphones and consumer mobile devices increases at an exponential rate, they are rapidly changing the way that companies do business. Apple are reportedly on target to sell 8m iPads this quarter and have already sold 183m iPhones – when the iPhone 4S was launched, 1m were sold. INCREASING DEMANDS As certain [...]
EMPLOYEES’ DEVICES CAN WORK FOR YOU BUT PREPARE AHEAD February 22, 2012 HOW DOES THE REQUIREMENT FOR NETWORK SECURITY DIFFER IN A BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE WORKPLACE, THAN IN A WORKPLACE WITH FIXED DEVICES? In a workplace with fixed devices, security was simpler. You could secure entry to the corporate network via firewalls and intrusion protection. With an increasingly mobile workforce using a variety of devices, the [...]
Three Isa myths that must go bust February 22, 2012 IT IS surprising how many City folk – versed, as they often are, in the intricacies of structuring complex financial products – don’t know the basics of individual savings accounts (Isas). It isn’t uncommon to need to explain to bankers that the Isa allowance can be taken every year; that it isn’t a product in [...]
Terrier(ble) returns hound many funds February 22, 2012 Bestinvest throws a spaniel in the works – revealing once again the managers chasing their own tail INVESTING in stock markets has been challenging for investors, with so many ways to access various investments. Fund groups and brokers are also continuously promoting new fund launches, providing a wide array of choice, but this often means [...]
How to find the next crop of cyber security experts February 22, 2012 Hacking group Anonymous rose from obscurity last year to become a household name. Earlier this month it intercepted a phone call between the FBI and UK police discussing, ironically, the fight against cyber crime. The audacious hack was the latest in a string of high profile attacks targeting governments, police forces and corporations across the [...]
Catherine is tantalisingly close to being a great game February 22, 2012 Tantalus made a pretty bad mistake: he pissed off Zeus. To make amends, he chopped up his son Pelops, boiled him in a pot and served him as a sacrificial aperitif. Now, as you might have predicted, this only made things worse and Zeus, not the most forgiving of gods at the best of times, [...]
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS February 22, 2012 NOKIA TO UNVEIL CHEAPER LUMIA Nokia is poised to unveil a new, cheaper smartphone using Microsoft’s Windows Phone software at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next week. The struggling Finnish giant wants to target a wider market for its new range of smartphones, with its flagship Lumia 800 failing to make the desired [...]
Edinburgh Woollen Mill saves 6,000 Peacocks jobs February 22, 2012 British clothing retailer Edinburgh Woollen Mill is to acquire two thirds of discount clothing retailer Peacocks, in a deal which will see 6,000 jobs saved. Administrators KMPG said they had agreed the sale of 388 stores from Cardiff-headquartered Peacocks but another 224 stores would be closed immediately, leading to 3,100 redundancies. Peacocks called administrators in [...]
Banks fork out £1.9bn for insurance mis-selling February 22, 2012 Lenders paid out a record £441m in compensation for insurance mis-selling in December, taking payouts for 2011 to £1.9bn and raising the prospect of an even bigger bill this year. The financial regulator said payouts in December jumped 16 per cent from the previous record of £379m in November. Aside from September, there has been [...]
