Management

30 Apr 2012

As Hong Kong entrepreneurs from the 1960s pass retirement age, their families are faced with the often difficult problems of succession. Liana Cafolla talks to both business experts and family...

Powering a positive family business unit

2 Mar 2013

"Why am I working 60-plus hours a week to grow this business while my siblings share equally in the dividends but don't have the responsibilities I have?"

This is a question that Johnston...

France backs Lauvergeon for “major” EADS role

29 Jan 2013

France has stepped up support for Anne Lauvergeon as the potential new chairwoman of EADS , injecting fresh uncertainty into efforts to free the European aerospace group’s top management from...

All the business world's a Cantonese opera stage

19 Jan 2013

Had it not been for a fire, Albert Au Siu-cheung might have ended up as a film star rather than an accountant.

Employers rein in after-hours e-mails to boost productivity

19 Nov 2012

Katey Klippel makes a point of keeping her smartphone in her bag when she returns home from a hard day at the management consulting firm where she works in Washington.

That way, she can...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Jet crew's etiquette manual embarrasses Abercrombie & Fitch CEO

The male actors and models who worked on Abercrombie & Fitch's Gulfstream jet had crystal-clear rules for serving CEO Michael Jeffries, right down to the sort of underpants to wear.

Family feud erupts at clothing firm Lacoste

A family feud at the top of the Lacoste clothing company is pitting father against daughter in a battle for management of the green crocodile brand.

'Generation Y' workers prize money and benefits in jobs, survey finds

As employees, Hong Kong's twenty-somethings are impatient, self-centred and likely to place the potential for monetary gain above all else when choosing a job, a survey by a management consultancy...

Changing the way we work

A glimpse into the future of how work is performed can be seen as an increasing number of businesses around the world start to use serviced-office solutions.

Letting women take all the risk

The recent spate of scandals in the banking industry has once again focused attention on the seriousness of risk management and the important role played by compliance managers in building a...

Time to give time off for new dads

The maxim that the market leads and the government facilitates has served Hong Kong well, but not always. It did not bring the five-day working week, which spread after the government took the...