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Scale-up businesses need to play a vital role in the ‘levelling up’ agenda, says Russell Miller. This government has of course pushed geographic inequalities to the top of its agenda and barely a day goes by without us hearing about its latest efforts to ‘level up’ the UK economy. Indeed later this year it will […]
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Gender segregation is embedded in food retail roles. Abbie Winton looks at how this can change. Supermarket shopping of old has, perhaps, changed forever with demand for online food retailing soaring during the pandemic, growing 25.5% in 2020 compared to the 8.5% previously anticipated. For most food retailers, trading online has long lacked appeal due to the
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Kara Ng and David Holman argue that the pandemic represents an opportunity to make positive changes in the workplace. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t been affected by the pandemic. For over a year many aspects of our lives have changed because of the uncertainty brought about by the virus. Our working lives
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The foundational economy needs to be central to Covid-19 recovery plans, say Mat Johnson and Eva Herman. For a brief window during the height of the pandemic it seemed as if politicians and the public were united in their gratitude and respect for the essential workers who risked their own safety to keep us protected,
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A year into the pandemic, Guillermo Pereira, Jonatan Pinkse and Frank Geels ask what the UK has achieved in terms of its much heralded green recovery. It is essential that our recovery from Covid-19 is a sustainable one that is beneficial for the UK’s productivity, competitiveness and environment. Indeed, our intentions in the immediate aftermath
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Damaris Albarran offers her tips on how to manage working relationships with ‘mediocre’ managers. Following the publication last month of the Good Finance Framework, a set of actions that can be taken by firms to allow women to progress in financial services, there was some discussion in the media about the ‘mediocre’ management that many
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The fact that so many high-tech start-ups end up being acquired by large multinational corporations has bothered me for a long time. What precisely is it that makes the growth of such start-ups so difficult? And why, despite the fact that they come up with novel inventions that change the world, do they so often
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