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What went wrong at The Body Shop – and what can we learn from it?

The Body Shop lost relevance with its core customers, while successive ownership and leadership changes confused the strategy

Patricia Cullen

Ella Mills: Turning adversity into a plant-based powerhouse

Mills founded Deliciously Ella when she was at rock bottom and, while she has had a lot of success, there have been difficulties along the way

Josh Dornbrack

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Go:Tech Awards 2024 shortlist revealed

The Go:Tech Awards 2024 recognise businesses and entrepreneurs leading the way in technology and innovation.

Quantum sensors: A booming market

For many years, quantum sensing was largely a scientific curiosity that few people could grasp. Now, it is primed to become a hotbed of commercialised innovation
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Take responsibility, even if it’s not your fault – it can change your life

Jake Humphrey explores why the balance between fault and responsibility is so vital for business leaders to understand

Jake Humphrey

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How to set strategy in an uncertain world

PureGym CEO Humphrey Cobbold offers advice on working on a strategy focused on influencing what you can control and being ready to react to what you can't

Humphrey Cobbold

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The first client is the hardest

Business Leader’s head of membership, Craig Wilmann, invites you to join his scale-up journey

Craig Wilmann

Understanding IP risks in the age of AI

Generative AI has become a transformative force in many industries, offering unprecedented opportunities for innovation and efficiency. However, along with those opportunities also comes risk. This article explores some of those risks, with a focus on UK IP laws. Subsistence and ownership of IP in AI-generated works A typical output of generative AI might be...
Brendon McCullum looks on during an England nets session at Lord's Cricket Ground

The power of a story: Redefining success in a data-driven world

Former England cricket selector Ed Smith looks at the power of a story and how it should be viewed in a modern business world.

Ed Smith

The purpose paradigm: Fact or fiction?

Niki Turner-Harding looks into the rise of purpose as a priority for the workforce and why it's going to be important in the future.

Niki Turner-Harding

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The sweet spot of confidence

Staying the Distance author Catherine Baker looks to sport for lessons in confidence that can help make you a better leader

Catherine Baker

Sir Martin Sorrell onstage at Cannes Lions 2022

Inside Sir Martin Sorrell’s world: Strategies for building empires

Sir Martin Sorrell is a titan of the advertising world. We met at S4 Capital for an exclusive interview, talking empire building and more.

Josh Dornbrack

Map of the United Kingdom made of money and torn in half

It’s time for a fresh approach to business support funding

Enterprise Nation founder Emma Jones analyses the golden opportunity to transform business support in the UK

Emma Jones

Simon Arora sitting at a table

Building B&M: Speed, strategy and success

We speak exclusively to long-time CEO Simon Arora about the strategy behind building B&M and how it nearly all ended after less than a year

Graham Ruddick

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How AI is reshaping content creation

Caspar Lee looks into the effect that artificial intelligence is having on the world of content creators and what the future holds

Caspar Lee

Rishi Sunak at the podium with Liz Truss and Boris Johnson's images to his left and right

Storm clouds over Number 10: The Sunak dilemma

With the 2 May local elections just around the corner, The Times' political editor Steven Swinford looks at the lay of the political land

Steven Swinford

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The infrastructure investment needed for gender equality

Infrastructure investment too often means large-scale construction projects when what women need is funding for affordable childcare, says Zara Nanu

Zara Nanu

Castore co-founders Phil and Tom Beahon (left) are pictured as The Rangers Store is officially reopened at Ibrox Stadium

Want to unleash your potential? Get a mentor

Tom Beahon, the co-founder and chief executive of Castore, discusses the importance of mentorship in his entrepreneurial journey.

Tom Beahon

The Chancellor Of The Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing Street on March 6, 2024

Spring Budget 2024: What it means for business

There wasn't much new in the budget but measures on national insurance, child benefits and tax rises were broadly welcomed

Graham Ruddick

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Retirement homes: The UK’s fastest growing non-tech sector

Retirement homes are big business as an aging population increases demand, but regulatory reform is needed to ensure quality of care

Alice Cumming

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The truth about software patents

I’ve been a patent attorney working in what’s often called “computer-implemented inventions” for around 20 years. Throughout that time, I’ve had many people tell me that you couldn’t get patents for software. Well, I’m able to tell you otherwise: it is possible to get patent protection for software inventions. The situation is a bit more...
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A look inside vinyl’s resurgence

Vinyl sales have been rising fast and new technology, including on-demand manufacturing, suggest its growth still has some way to go

James Cook

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Menopause: Is your workplace leading or lagging?

Menopause is rising up the workplace agenda, but there is still much more for businesses to do to ensure women feel supported

Patricia Cullen

Rachel Reeves and Jeremy Hunt, along with the chancellor's red briefcase

What to expect from the 2024 Spring Budget

Cuts to national insurance and income tax, removal of non-domiciled tax rules and changes to lifetime ISAs are all expected in the budget later today

James Cook