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In the 18 months since Lord Davies published his review into women on boards there has been encouraging progress. The number of women recruited to the boardrooms of the UK’s largest companies has increased and there has been a notable commitment by business to remove the obstacles preventing women making it to the boardroom.
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In the 18 months since Lord Davies published his review into women on boards there has been encouraging progress. The number of women recruited to the boardrooms of the UK’s largest companies has increased and there has been a notable commitment by business to remove the obstacles preventing women making it to the boardroom.
Apple has parted company with the executive responsible for the new mapping service that forced the group to apologise to iPhone users, according to reports.
A bias towards big companies within Britain’s business schools is “compromising growth” by ignoring the potential of mid-sized firms, a report has warned.
Controversial proposals giving employees tax free shares in the companies employing them in return for surrendering workplace rights are expected to be pushed through as part of a package of small business measures in next week’s autumn statement.
One of the UK’s leading lenders to small businesses attempted to identify struggling firms in order to profit from their subsequent collapse.
The CBI has welcomed the on independent reviewer Doug Richard’s recommendations for improving the apprenticeship system.
New Government figures suggest most people will stay in a pension scheme and start saving for their old age under automatic enrolment.
UK business could potentially benefit by £5bn a year if companies unblocked the talent pipeline for their 500,000 female middle managers a major new report suggests.
The latest BusinessIQ Insolvency Index from Experian, the global information services company, reveals an 8.7 per cent fall in the number of business insolvencies during October 2012, compared to the same month last year.
A new survey has provided an insight into the future of British entrepreneurship.
Why did people want to borrow so much? Why did the ratio of household debt to income soar to unprecedented heights in the pre-recession days?
While the Hewlett-Packard Co accounting scandal has produced several losers, it also produced one potentially very big winner: the whistleblower.
Former UBS banker Kweku Adoboli has been jailed for seven years and dubbed a trader who was “out of control”, having been found guilty of the biggest fraud in British history.
