2007 June: Business
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Peter Hannam, Number crunchers search for right formula, The Age, 2007 June 25 (among the many uncertainties left by the Prime Minister's task group on emissions trading is how companies will have to account for their carbon pollution)
Peter Hannam, Manufacturers count cost of carbon, The Age, 2007 June 25 (while much of the carbon kerfuffle has centred on emitters in the energy and mining sectors, it is manufacturers that may face the biggest adjustments)
James Kanter, Carbon trading: Where greed is green, IHT, 2007 June 20 (managing emissions is one of the fastest-growing segments in financial services, and companies are scrambling for talent)
Matthew Saltmarsh, European emissions trading scheme generates unexpected fallout, IHT, 2007 June 18 (propping up a struggling French chemicals company was not part of the idea when European policy makers established the world's first mandatory emissions trading plan)
John Vidal and David Adam, China passes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter, Guardian, 2007 June 20 (China overtakes US as world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, new figures show)
Terry Macalister, Offsetting chief warns of carbon cowboys, Guardian, 2007 June 18 (fast-growing but increasingly criticised industry at risk of being discredited unless it draws up a recognisable set of standards that customers can trust, one of the most senior figures in the sector warns)
Mathew Murphy, Carbon trading winners and losers, The Age, 2007 June 18 (transport, utilities, construction and households stand to lose the most from an emissions trading scheme)
Peter Hannam, Efficiency key to greenhouse cuts, The Age, 2007 June 18 (improving energy efficiency has the potential to deliver bigger cuts in greenhouse gas emissions than any other action)
Jack Pezzey and Frank Jotzo, Pre-election greenhouse grab is on, The Age, 2007 June 18 (emissions trading can create vast new riches, but for whom?)
Nick Davies, The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry, Guardian, 2007 June 16 (how greenhouse gas credits do little or nothing to combat global warming)
Liz Minchin, Carbon footprint of rich twice that of poor, The Age, 2007 June 16 (rich, well-educated Australians are contributing twice as much to climate change as average households, according to new analysis of consumption habits)
Climate change: Emissionary positions, Economist, 2007 June 16 (despite the president's change of heart, carbon policy remains contentious)
Role for coal 'continues to soar', BBC, 2007 June 12 (world energy use is becoming more carbon intensive - as the popularity of coal power continues, BP says)
Taskforce to cut 'cyber warming', BBC, 2007 June 10 (reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the production, operation and disposal of computers is to be the aim of a new government taskforce)
Mark Honigsbaum, Magazine: Is carbon offsetting the solution?, Observer, 2007 June 10 (we burn fossil fuel and plant trees to 'off set' our emissions; it sounds like a win-win situation; but is it?)
Lawnmowers: It all adds up, Economist, 2007 June 9 (green grows the garden, brown goes the world)
Airline carbon plan gets EU nod, BBC, 2007 June 8 (European Union transport ministers approve a plan to make airlines part of a carbon trading scheme aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions)
Keith Orchison, Carbon trade puts industries at risk, The Age, 2007 June 8 (big energy users are forgotten in the debate on a national emissions scheme)
Kenneth Davidson, Time running out for an honest climate debate, The Age, 2007 June 7 (a carbon tax would be the fast-acting answer to the damage we've done)
Julian O' Halloran, Carbon trade scheme 'is failing', BBC, 2007 June 5 (the EU's carbon trading plan has raised electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases)
Leon Gettler, Trading delay could spur power cuts, The Age, 2007 June 4 (Eastern Australia could face blackouts because of Federal Government's decision to hold off carbon trading until 2012)
Business and climate change: The final cut, Economist, 2007 June 2 (business can do it, with governments' help)
Nick Davies, Abuse and incompetence in fight against global warming, Guardian, 2007 June 2 (up to 20% of carbon savings in doubt as monitoring firms criticised by UN body)
Emma Duncan, Business and climate change: Cleaning up, Economist, 2007 June 2 (business is getting down to cutting carbon, but needs more incentives to make much difference to climate change)
Business and climate change: Trading thin air, Economist, 2007 June 2 (the carbon market is working, but not bringing forth as much innovation as had been hoped)
Business and climate change: Everybody's green now, Economist, 2007 June 2 (how America's big companies got environmentalism)
Business and climate change: Dirty king coal, Economist, 2007 June 2 (scrubbing carbon from coal-fired power stations is possible but pricey)
Katharine Murphy, Carbon trading by 2012: taskforce, The Age, 2007 June 1 (Australia will begin carbon emissions trading by 2012 if Prime Minister John Howard accepts the advice of his hand-picked taskforce)
John Blau, Carbon Caps Coming For European Cars, IEEE Spectrum, 2007 June (a commission proposal is now on the table that calls for a legally binding limit of 130 grams per kilometer for the average new car fleet built from 2012 onward)
Leon Gettler, Modern ills: When affluence is not so much cure as cause, The Age, 2007 June 27 (rampant choice and aspiration may not equal wellbeing: a point policymakers should heed)
Chantal Rumble, Are you being served?, The Age, 2007 June 23 (lack of competition leaves shoppers let down as big two focus on price rather than customer service)
Dick Pountain and David Robins, Immoral support, Guardian, 2007 June 20 (what fuels violence among young people?; the 'Cool' ethic - a toxic blend of hyper-individualism, consumerism and resentment)
Leader, In praise of . . . PYO, Guardian, 2007 June 18 (PYO - or pick your own - farms are a magnificent counterblast to the supermarket habit of selling every last cherry wrapped in clingfilm)
Rebecca Urban, Supermarkets checkout poorly, The Age, 2007 June 15 (Australia's two biggest supermarket chains are hopelessly lagging behind their international peers when it comes to winning customer loyalty, according to research)
Eric Onstad, Big corporations try to tap a market they have ignored, IHT, 2007 June 4 (from South Africa to Brazil, companies like Danone and Unilever sell individual packets of yogurt and soap in rural villages and urban open-air markets; in the telecommunications sector, the biggest growth area is among the poor, who are snapping up cellphones)
Britain since the war: Shopping v politics, Economist, 2007 June 2 (A History of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr; politics was hijacked in the swinging sixties by shopping and the search for personal fulfilment, and never quite made it back)
Katie Allen, Police aid piracy watchdog over filesharing claims at Honeywell, Guardian, 2007 June 30 (UK record industry widens anti-piracy net to the corporate world with investigation into US company Honeywell)
Internet radio: Tuning out, Economist, 2007 June 30 (a battle over music royalties threatens a nascent industry)
Pete Wells, U.S. chef sues over intellectual property (the menu), IHT, 2007 June 27 (the suit, which seeks unspecified financial damages from McFarland and the restaurant itself, charges that Ed's Lobster Bar copies "each and every element" of Pearl Oyster Bar, including the white marble bar, the gray paint on the wainscoting, the chairs and bar stools with their wheat-straw backs, the packets of oyster crackers placed at each table setting and the dressing on the Caesar salad)
'Day of silence' for US web radio, BBC, 2007 June 26 (Web radio broadcasters go off air in protest at plans to hike royalty payments when music is played online)
Tim Shepherd-Smith, Staff 'guilt-free' over office theft, Guardian, 2007 June 26 (survey finds only one-in-50 thinks stealing software from work is something to feel ashamed of)
AP and smh.com.au, Sydney host cuts Perez Hilton, The Age, 2007 June 22 (Sydney web hosting company parts ways with the popular perezhilton.com celebrity gossip website after receiving a flood of copyright complaints)
Tim Anderson, Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite, Guardian, 2007 June 21 (Richard Hipp's database is used by some of the biggest names in IT, - but he has not made a penny from it)
Michael Liedtke, How the Frisbee got its name, IHT, 2007 June 17 (when Wham-O changed the name of the Pluto Platter to Frisbee 50 years ago Sunday, it flung a new word into the cultural ether that still conjures images of carefree fun in the park and breezy days at the beach)
YouTube to test video ID software, BBC, 2007 June 12 (online video site YouTube is to test a new video fingerprinting technology to address copyright concerns)
John Naughton, Why an iTunes track record needs to finish with a coder, Observer, 2007 June 10 (from the moment the internet appeared in 1983, it was obvious to the meanest intelligence that it was a heaven-sent machine for delivering bits from one place to another)
Ian Jack, The 'edgy' 2012 logo has abolished Olympian grace and geography, Guardian, 2007 June 9 (brand names used to establish trust, but have become the enemy of all that is local and familiar)
Chantal Rumble, Naming rights give growers something to whine about, The Age, 2007 June 8 (fancy a glass of Australian port?; tough; soon there will be no such thing, at least not in name)
Owen Gibson, Elvis joins Premier League in legal showdown with YouTube, Guardian, 2007 June 7 (music group joins sporting bodies in suing website; League says many others will join copyright battle)
Leon Gettler, Faking it produces genuine economic problems, The Age, 2007 June 7 (according to an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study, international trade in counterfeit goods is worth $US200 billion a year)
Victoria Shannon, Does digital file sharing render copyright obsolete?, IHT, 2007 June 3 (the youth craze for making and posting digitized audio and video on the Internet - their own creations and those of others, without regard to ownership or payment - is driving a wedge between the traditional "commercial" economy and the upstart "sharing" market)
The opium economy: A world awash in heroin, Economist, 2007 June 30 (and much of it from one unruly region of Afghanistan)
Ross Gittins, Productivity data swings much ado about nothing, The Age, 2007 June 23 (the figures bounce around a lot, without those ups and downs proving much)
Buttonwood: Research in commotion, Economist, 2007 June 23 (it is getting harder for securities analysts to pay their way)
History's big bubbles: The boiling point, Economist, 2007 June 23 (how does China's bubble compare with previous financial manias?)
Inflation: Core principles, Economist, 2007 June 23 (bond investors are living in a world where nobody eats or drives)
Ross Gittins, IR modelling opens a can of worms, The Age, 2007 June 19 (economist jokes can reveal some of the absurdities of real-life economics)
David James, Why we simply can't afford to do many things properly, The Age, 2007 June 18 (housing affordability has rarely been worse; indeed, the nation's leaders are so concerned about it they are even considering issuing press releases)
Kenneth Davidson, Treasury spins $1.1bn loss into 'gain', The Age, 2007 June 18 (Treasury is still in denial over the fact that it lost $1.1 billion on currency derivative plays on the US dollar during the watch of the Howard Government; this loss calls into question the Government's claims to superior economic management)
Heather Stewart, He has an American dream, Observer, 2007 June 17 (economist Paul Krugman, scourge of the White House, is optimistic)
Ross Gittins, The bad news in such good times, The Age, 2007 June 9 (you wouldn't be a manager of the economy for quids; this week's sheaf of figures may be great news for the politicians, but for the economic managers, they're a worry)
Steve Burrell, Red tape flourishes in stifling atmosphere of hot air, The Age, 2007 June 5 (politicians talk a lot about boosting productivity, reforming the economy and making us all happier and richer; they compete to be "business friendly")
Climate change: Greenwash, Economist, 2007 June 23 (environmentalism is concealing any number of misguided policies)
Environmental policy (1): Arnie's uphill climb, Economist, 2007 June 23 (California's confident approach to climate change has inspired America and the world; but things do not look so good in the state itself)
Environmental policy (2): Soot and safflower, Economist, 2007 June 23 (can Montana's coal-loving governor be green too?)
Terry Macalister, Public fears 'greenwash' from industry, Guardian, 2007 June 18 (initiatives to counter climate change will probably have limited impact because nine out of 10 consumers are sceptical about the information from companies and governments, according to a survey)
Meg Carter, Green claims are a load of hot air, Guardian, 2007 June 18 (as concern about our environment grows, advertisers are jumping on the ethical bandwagon, but are they really committed to the cause?)
Juliette Jowit and Javier Espinoza, Wonder of nature under threat from illegal logging, Observer, 2007 June 17 (one of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles is under threat because environmental projects to protect the monarch butterfly are failing)
Peter Weekes, Feeling groovy—from fashion to PCs, recycling is in, The Age, 2007 June 17 (just as vintage clothing has become all the rage, businesses are cottoning on that it is often cheaper, as well as greener, to turn to used materials)
Richard Black, Sawfish protection acquires teeth, BBC, 2007 June 11 (nations agree to ban international trade in the one of the world's most spectacular fish)
Technology Quarterly: The truth about recycling, Economist, 2007 June 9 (as the importance of recycling becomes more apparent, questions about it linger; is it worth the effort?; how does it work?; is recycling waste just going into a landfill in China?)
Technology Quarterly: The trees have eyes, Economist, 2007 June 9 (an elaborate combination of technologies is being deployed to try to curb the illegal hunting of endangered species)
Sian Watkins, Memo humans: stop breeding like bunnies, The Age, 2007 June 8 (the environment is stuffed because there are so many of us)
Europe's seas face 'bleak future', BBC, 2007 June 7 (Europe's seas are in a "serious state of decline" as a result of coastal development, overfishing and pollution from agriculture)
Terry Macalister, Change is in the wind as business climate turns green, Guardian, 2007 June 6 (campaigners sceptical about companies' new-found enthusiasm for environment)
Liz Minchin, Insurance coverage being reviewed as coastal areas face higher risk of damage, The Age, 2007 June 4 (insurance policies being reviewed and withdrawn in some coastal areas of Australia because of climate change)
Paul Kelbie, European fashionistas fuel multi-million-pound trade in wildlife products, Observer, 2007 June 3 (a booming trade in wildlife products to satisfy consumer demand for exotic fashion items is threatening the survival of numerous wild plants, animals and ecosystems)
Conservation policy: Trading down, Economist, 2007 June 2 (protecting endangered species less could help save them)
The environment: Cleaning up, Economist, 2007 June 2 (how business is starting to tackle climate change, and how governments need to help)
Patrick Gray, Developing an eagle eye for fraud, The Age, 2007 June 26 (criminals are constantly changing their fraud techniques as financial institutions enhance their detection methods for suspicious transactions)
Flavia Krause-Jackson and Chiara Remondini, Comedian takes on corruption in Italy, IHT, 2007 June 25 (during his current tour, the big-bellied, bearded Beppo Grillo attacks institutions from the Bank of Italy to the Catholic Church, which he blames for some of the biggest financial and political scandals in Italy)
Danny Bradbury, Revoke the phishing licence, Guardian, 2007 June 21 (the effect of having your details stolen via a bogus website can be devastating; what the big players are doing to stamp out the problem)
Landon Thomas Jr and Michael de la Merced, U.S. regulators track insider trades worldwide, IHT, 2007 June 19 (far removed from the insider trading scandals of the 1980s, investors have become enthusiastic speculators on overseas markets; but, as they have taken on more risk, regulators claim that some are violating American securities laws, prompting the authorities to range far and wide to try and catch them)
Ed Pilkington, Gangs infect 10,000 websites to steal users' bank details, Guardian, 2007 June 20 ('Italian Job' is next stage in cyber identity crime; viruses planted on charity and tourism pages)
Oliver Morgan, Woolf's BAE ethics probe 'is a nonsense', Observer, 2007 June 17 (anti-corruption campaigners are dismissing defence company BAE Systems' appointment of Lord Woolf to head a committee examining its ethical conduct as a 'nonsense' and 'fanciful')
Jonathan Watts, Enslaved, burned and beaten: police free 450 from Chinese brick factories, Guardian, 2007 June 16 (children among captives forced to work for no pay; local officials accused of colluding with traffickers)
Carne Ross, We could pay a grave price for our addiction to arms deals, Guardian, 2007 June 9 (working at the Foreign Office I saw how exports took precedence over human rights; with the Saudis, this could backfire)
BAE and Saudi Arabia: The plot thickens, Economist, 2007 June 9 (a Saudi prince, some fighter jets and more allegations)
George Monbiot, Without principle, Guardian, 2007 June 8 (allegations about BAE's slush fund show the UK has no right to lecture anyone else on corruption)
AAP, Alarm sounds on cyber piracy as online banking rises, The Age, 2007 June 3 (rpidly expanding ranks of people banking online raises questions over whether consumers can deal with growing threat from cyber pirates)
Mark Russell, Scam, bam, thank you ma'am: get poor quick, The Age, 2007 June 3 (many Victorians losing millions from scam emails refuse to believe they are being ripped off)
Jill Treanor, Mortgage customers' details lost in the post, Guardian, 2007 June 1 (an estimated two-thirds of Bank of Scotland's mortgage customers could be vulnerable to fraud after a computer disk containing their details was lost)
Emma Thompson, Tesco has to play fair on wages for farmworkers, Guardian, 2007 June 28 (when Tesco meets tomorrow for its AGM, it will need to answer some tough questions about how it treats people in poor countries)
Ernest Rodeck, High price of the free trade fantasy, The Age, 2007 June 27 (we seem bent on proving that we are free traders, even if it sends us broke)
AP, Countries propose compromise in faltering global trade talks, IHT, 2007 June 25 (a group of Latin American and Asian members of the World Trade Organization proposed a "middle ground" Monday in talks to liberalize trade in manufactured goods, a sign that developing countries are breaking ranks with Brazil and India)
Latest world trade talks collapse, BBC, 2007 June 21 (talks in Germany to secure a breakthrough on establishing a new global trade deal have collapsed)
Tim Colebatch, OECD chews over globalisation issues, The Age, 2007 June 19 (it doesn't doubt that it is a good thing overall, but for the first time, the multinational think tank of Western governments has conceded that globalisation could make low-skilled workers in the West worse off—without adequate support)
Thomas Faunce, A dubious and secret influence on our public health policy, The Age, 2007 June 13 (a free trade group is influencing policy and what drugs will cost)
Steve Lohr, Engineering at SAP opens up to globalization - and the Web, IHT, 2007 June 8 (two transformations: the increasing globalization of the engineering work at the company, the continuing opening up of SAP's technology itself in response to the rise of the Internet and the growing popularity of Web-based computing)
William Pfaff, Restoring balance to a globalized world, IHT, 2007 June 4 (a truth only now acknowledged in the international economic debate is that globalization has done a great deal of damage since that fateful day when Bill Clinton, lacking a dramatic economic proposal to make in his first presidential campaign, listened to his Wall Street friends and decided to promise deregulation of the international economy)
James Wolfensohn, The four circles of a changing world, IHT, 2007 June 4 (world economic growth is posting a 30-year high, yet the consensus on globalization is splintering)
William Keegan, If you're not a fat cat or a footballer, new problems keep on popping up, Observer, 2007 June 3 (it is a truth almost universally acknowledged that the impact of globalisation has been of enormous benefit in helping the Bank of England and other central banks to be credited for keeping inflation low)
Peter Hannam, Manufacturers count cost of carbon, The Age, 2007 June 25 (while much of the carbon kerfuffle has centred on emitters in the energy and mining sectors, it is manufacturers that may face the biggest adjustments)
British manufacturing: In praise of shopkeepers and sellers, Economist, 2007 June 23 (in the contrasting stories of Tesco and ICI, Britain offers a lesson to the world)
Ashley Seager, Share of women in industry has dropped since 1907, Guardian, 2007 June 8 (more women worked in manufacturing 100 years ago than today)
Steve Dow, Kicking the kickback habit, The Age, 2007 June 30 (fancy an international, all expenses paid business-class trip?; well, so do many doctors - courtesy of the drug companies; but that may all change as the pharmaceutical industry is forced to publicly reveal all such 'gifts')
Stephen Labaton, U.S. Supreme Court strikes down century-old antitrust rule, IHT, 2007 June 29 (striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that it was not automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on minimum retail prices)
Steve Dow and Carol Nader, Drug companies forced to reveal gifts to doctors, The Age, 2007 June 28 (drug companies will be forced to publicly reveal details of the hospitality they lavish on doctors—such as foreign travel and expensive dinners—in a bid to slow down the pharmaceutical "gravy train" for the nation's medical professionals)
Jill Stark, Alcohol ad regulators can't be trusted: experts, The Age, 2007 June 27 (health experts slam the alcohol industry's advertising code and demand it be stripped of self-regulatory powers after complaints about a beer advertisement were dismissed)
Helen Westerman, Review of toy offers with food, The Age, 2007 June 27 (the Australian Communications and Media Authority may consider banning television advertisements that use toys to market junk food to children)
Cameron Houston, Revealed: tobacco giant's secret new weapon in the age of smoking bans, The Age, 2007 June 27 (as strict indoor smoking bans come into force across Victoria this weekend, tobacco giant Philip Morris has secret plans to launch Australia's first hand-held electronic smoking device, which it claims will reduce second-hand smoke by more than 90 per cent)
Jill Stark, Spirits lure leads to rise in drinking, The Age, 2007 June 26 (rise in number of Australians drinking spirits blamed on growing availability of premixed "alcopops", popular with under-age binge drinkers)
Jenn Abelson, Gillette battles for Japanese hearts and chins, IHT, 2007 June 25 (the wet shaving market in Japan is valued at $310 million, but some analysts say it has the potential to grow significantly)
Deborah Gough, Show and sell: once upon a time in the marketplace, there was this brand wagon, The Age, 2007 June 24 (in the beginning there was a scooter, and then the wheels of commerce created something much, much more)
Matthew Wall, Coming soon: mobile phone hyperlinks for the real world, Guardian, 2007 June 21 (2D barcodes are helping the mobile web to take a giant leap forward)
Dan Skeen, Do I have your attention?, The Age, 2007 June 19 (technological advances are making eye-tracking an increasingly useful tool for advertisers who want to see what their customers see)
George Monbiot, Children's health is coming second to the profits of baby formula peddlers, Guardian, 2007 June 19 (in Britain, too, corporate muscle and government weakness means mothers are gulled into swapping the breast for the tin)
Mark Hawthorne, Lignite to lingerie? Macquarie's long bow, The Age, 2007 June 19 (the notion that "sex sells" is an old one; images of scantily clad women have been used to sell everything from ice-creams and beer to tabloid newspapers for decades)
Simon Marquis, On advertising: Why success is never that simple, Guardian, 2007 June 18 (has accountability forced advertising professionals to sacrifice creativity and inspiration for the sake of effectiveness?)
Anthony Lilley, New media: Want to cash in on every click? Then listen up, Guardian, 2007 June 18 (creating a great commercial website is one of the most difficult questions in the business)
Carmel Egan, Crackdown on children's ads, The Age, 2007 June 10 (giant food corporations are cancelling advertisements and radically changing the way they target youngsters to try to head off advertising as a major federal election issue)
Advertising: Got game, Economist, 2007 June 9 (inserting advertisements into video games holds much promise)
Graeme Philipson, All hung up with technology envy, The Age, 2007 June 5 (just when is the time right to draw the line with new products?)
George Monbiot, Don't listen to what the rich world's leaders say - look at what they do, Guardian, 2007 June 5 (take the thousands of Filipino children who die every year courtesy of the formula milk corporates, backed by US lobbying)
Katie Allen, How-to films get ahead in web advertising, Guardian, 2007 June 4 (the head of market research company YouGov is branching out into internet television with a new product placement site called HowTo.tv launching today)
French newspapers: The rag trade, Economist, 2007 June 30 (Bernard Arnault tries to sell one publication and buy another)
Julia Werdigier, Britain's 'feral beast' - the press - bites back at Blair, IHT, 2007 June 18 (most British commentators said that Blair's attack, which came during one of his last speeches before leaving office this month, was nothing short of hypocrisy)
Patrick Wintour, Blair: media is feral beast obsessed with impact, Guardian, 2007 June 13 (newspapers should be subject to new external regulation, says PM)
Peter Preston, If the net is killing newspapers, why are they doing so well?, Observer, 2007 June 10 (perhaps it isn't demonic digitalisation that's bringing us down; perhaps it's just us - and what we produce)
Chris Berg, Media faces an unsentimental future, The Age, 2007 June 8 (private equity and technical innovation will change the way things are done in Australia)
Tom Plate, Online era leads us to newspapers, not away from them, The Age, 2007 June 7 (as long as issues are complex, quality journalism will still be needed)
Catherine Deveny, Porn, sex, drugs. There, made you read it!, The Age, 2007 June 6 (newspapers and their websites are dumbing down to attract readers who are turned off by the serious, dull and worthy)
The media industry: Place your bets, Economist, 2007 June 2 (a start-up hopes a stockmarket for media content will uncover new talent)
Alexandra Topping, TV kidney donor show revealed as hoax to provoke debate on organ shortages, Guardian, 2007 June 2 (programme's terminally ill patient was an actor; Dutch stunt praised by media commentators)
Face value: The outsourcerer, Economist, 2007 June 23 (if you want to see where Indian outsourcing is going, keep an eye on Krishnan Ganesh)
Offshore boost for finance sector, BBC, 2007 June 22 (the shifting of UK financial services jobs to developing countries such as India and China has saved the sector about £1.5bn a year)
David Barboza and Louise Story, Recall hints at the downside of RC2's outsourcing strategy, IHT, 2007 June 19 (many people - parents in particular - took note last week, when RC2 issued a recall of 1.5 million Thomas the Tank Engine wooden trains and other railroad components that were contaminated with paint containing lead)
Wiley Miller, Non Sequitur, 2007 July 20
Bloomberg, Outsourcing is moving beyond the back office, IHT, 2007 June 14 (outsourcing, when you apply the model of core competence to business processes, is all about companies parceling out activities that they aren't best equipped to undertake)
John Baschab and Jon Piot, Setting IT Strategic Priorities, Datamation, 2007 June 7 (through our work at Technisource in outsourcing IT departments we have identified the common actions and priorities that differentiate the most successful operations)
Emma Thompson, Tesco has to play fair on wages for farmworkers, Guardian, 2007 June 28 (when Tesco meets tomorrow for its AGM, it will need to answer some tough questions about how it treats people in poor countries)
Polly Toynbee, Brown can't talk like he does and ignore this debauchery, Guardian, 2007 June 26 (the Babylonian excesses of the rich have to be tackled fast if we are to stop our society being wrenched apart)
Nassim Khadem, More bosses fail to pay super dues, The Age, 2007 June 25 (a growing number of workers are owed or will never be paid their superannuation entitlements from employers, Tax Office figures reveal)
Management in Europe: Pay slips, Economist, 2007 June 23 (how to defuse the politics of executive pay)
Henry Porter, There's money out there, but little sign of responsibility, Observer, 2007 June 17 (the super-rich are back, and would rather buy private planes than recognise their debt to society)
Leader, It's time to end tax breaks for the super-rich, Observer, 2007 June 17 (some of the richest businessmen in Britain pay less tax than the people who clean their offices)
Oliver Morgan, Firms 'should be forced to reveal pay gap', Observer, 2007 June 17 (the government should legislate to force all public companies into disclosing the pay gap between directors and their employees, according to leading corporate governance activist PIRC)
Air travel: Fly me home, James, Economist, 2007 June 16 (travelling in an executive jet is just the ticket)
Andrew Clark, Lives of the super-rich, Guardian, 2007 June 12 (powerful, super-rich and flamboyant, they are revered as the new kings of Wall Street)
Deborah Hargreaves, Britain's top bosses are on another planet: planet greed, Guardian, 2007 June 11 (reward for performance is one thing; but today's executive pay, hundreds of times that of workers, is farcically overblown)
Ross Gittins, Let them eat cake—how the workers' pie keeps shrinking, The Age, 2007 June 2 (when you divide the pie of national income between the share going to wages and the share going to profits, you find the workers' share keeps shrinking and is the smallest it has been)
Private equity in the spotlight: Taxing minds, Economist, 2007 June 23 (why Britain's private-equity kings so readily agreed to a higher rate of tax)
Andrew Clark, There are the rich and the very rich. Now meet the private equity kings, Guardian, 2007 June 13 (controversial industry's huge salaries revealed; leading lights to make millions after flotation)
Nick Mathiason, 'Private equity stole our pensions', Observer, 2007 June 10 (how deals with private equity links are accused of leading to the downfall of pension schemes - and we talk to three pensioners who are facing a much poorer retirement)
Nicholas Ferguson, In defence of private equity, Guardian, 2007 June 7 (was my line of work really worthwhile, my kids demanded; I slept on it before answering)
Polly Toynbee, This wild west capitalism is born of servility to the City, Guardian, 2007 June 5 (the private equity sector, with its attendant risks to employees, pensioners and tax revenue, should be reined in and regulated)
Tim Dowling, This book is dedicated to ... who exactly?, Guardian, 2007 June 21 (you've written your novel and even got a publisher; then the hard work really starts: the fraught business of the dedication)
Carmel Egan, Uni sacks literary board, The Age, 2007 June 17 (the public stoush over influential literary magazine Meanjin has taken another dramatic turn, with Melbourne University Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis sacking the board)
Joanne Kaufman, A publishing quandary: Do excerpts help sales?, IHT, 2007 June 12 (although excerpts from high-profile books still routinely appear in magazines, some publishers have been having second thoughts about the strategy)
Celia McGee, Authors find new income as speakers, IHT, 2007 June 4 (in the last two years, several major publishing houses have set up speakers bureaus; HarperCollins was the first, in May 2005, followed by Random House, which set up a partnership with an existing company, the American Program Bureau, rather than build its own)
Ed Needham, I've had it with men, Guardian, 2007 June 4 (ten years ago, men's monthlies were making fortunes for publishers on both sides of the Atlantic; but the internet and trashy weeklies have destroyed all that: the party's over, and it's time to move on)
David Smith, Stars take classics to a digital generation, Observer, 2007 June 3 (readings of great literature will be available on a download rival to iTunes)
Frank Moorhouse, From quill to keyboard, The Age, 2007 June 3 (literary magazines are vital - but they must embrace new models to thrive)
Jason Steger, Literary editor mans barricade against takeover bid, The Age, 2007 June 2 (Ian Britain has poured his heart and soul into Meanjin, the Melbourne literary magazine he has edited for the past six years; he has wooed writers, nurtured talent and worked himself to the bone)
Carmel Egan, Fat cats seek to scrap sugar labelling, The Age, 2007 June 24 (labels identifying the sugar, fat and kilojoule content of grocery items will be scrapped if the State Government's leading business regulator gets its way)
Carne Ross, We could pay a grave price for our addiction to arms deals, Guardian, 2007 June 9 (working at the Foreign Office I saw how exports took precedence over human rights; with the Saudis, this could backfire)
Anne-Marie Strickland, Is truth a casualty when Government pulls its figures out?, The Age, 2007 June 4 (Australia's recent economic success owes much to the large numbers of women forced to work in underpaid, casual jobs that are exploitative in the extreme)
Business strategy: Shall we play a game?, Economist, 2007 June 2 (playing war games can give companies new perspectives on complex problems)