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

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?

Boom and gloom in Germany

Restructuring in German business is beginning to pay off

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

Losing the Midas touch