Business
Spinning it out at Thermo Electron
A mixture of American entrepreneurialism and Greek family values has given rise to a fashionable business model: the company as incubator. Does it work?
Incentive schemes
Jam today
RU486
Abort, Retry, Sell?
Scotch whisky
Splitting the brand
Airlines
Freedom in the air
The deregulation of Europe’s skies this month will make the air-travel industry a little less insular. But the current fashion for fragile marketing alliances is no substitute for proper global carriers
Kroll Associates
Undercover
Conglomerates on trial
Conglomerates have taken a battering from management theorists. But is there something to be said for them after all?
The anti-management guru
Scott Adams has made a business out of bashing business. Why does the hand he bites love to feed him?
Prospecting in Indonesia