Top HSBC executive on Westpac’s CEO succession radar
This international banking executive is certain to feature on the target list of Westpac’s board and the headhunting firm spearheading a search for its next CEO.
Leadership
Myer boss hires Boston Consulting to reimagine retail giant
Executive chairman Olivia Wirth has brought in Boston Consulting Group to examine and reimagine Myer’s approach to its customers, leaning on her admiration for overseas chains.
Family food empire built on love and ‘giving a duck’
Daniel Shoppee is the third generation of his family to preside over Australia’s largest duck producer and throughout the good and bad times there has been one important motto: ‘Don’t quit’.
Funding must never be a get-out-of-jail card: Wellcome Trust
The chief investment officer of one of the world’s largest philanthropic foundations says his strategy is simple: If someone ought to be in jail then they don’t get any investment.
Why more CEOs are taking the ice bath plunge
Australian CEOs and other corporate players are rapidly embracing the global ice bath trend, claiming it improves their fitness, mental health and decision making.
Insignia poaches ASIC regulator
ASX-listed wealth and superannuation player Insignia Financial has secured former ASIC commissioner Danielle Press to chair its retirement business.
Business world mourns death of finance stalwart
One of the most influential figures in Australian corporate and finance history, Rob Ferguson, has died after a long illness.
‘You can’t shrink an airline to profitability’: James Hogan unplugged
The former Etihad Airways chief reveals untold secrets of his reign in Abu Dhabi, frustration over the trashing of his legacy and why he won’t work in Australian aviation again.
The advice guiding rebuild for Woolies’ accidental CEO
Brad Banducci leaves as one of the supermarket’s longest-serving bosses. Can his legacy survive the hits of the past six months?
How BHP plans to keep its copper king crown
The bets on copper and potash show BHP is undergoing another of its landmark reinventions. Will it be enough?
Olympic movement veteran Kevan Gosper dies
The silver medallist and former Shell Australia chief, who was due to attend the Games in Paris later this month, has passed away peacefully at the age of 90.
The night a family jeweller was brought back from the brink
When insolvency documents were delayed by a printing glitch, Michelle Stanton decided Bevilles, the jewellery chain started by her grandparents in Melbourne in 1934, was worth fighting for. Last year she sold it for $45m.
Larry Kestelman: what it means to be an Australian
The businessman and National Basketball League owner wants to start a conversation about Australia’s values and identity, inspired by the 60th anniversary of The Australian.
Love of rugby league is no crime, it’s a passion
While rugby union and AFL have been the sport of top levels of business here, Gary Weiss has been working behind the scenes to build up the ‘working man’s game’ of rugby league.
‘Rod the God’: Carnegie nation’s first modern CEO
Sir Roderick Carnegie came to the top job at mining group CRA exactly as Australia began to change so dramatically in the 1970s and he both rode and helped mould that change.
The case for optimism on diversity and inclusion challenges
In the face of contemporary challenges, the growing backlash against diversity and inclusion is both unsettling and ironic.
Pressure all politicians to put us on ‘up path’: Gina Rinehart
Billionaire miner and investor Gina Rinehart wants Australians to keep their pressure up on politicians and says she uses only her influence to encourage policies which are clearly pro-Australia.
Apps, alumni and Gina: The plan for rowing’s financial success
Rowing Australia and its athletes have big support from Australia’s richest person. But the boss of the sport has a strategy to find additional funding after the Paris Olympics.
The professor and the F1 ace taking health tech to the world
Professor Mark Kendall, with backing from retired Aussie F1 great Mark Webber, is taking an Australian wearable technology business to the world in order to change the lives of millions.
Paul Keating ‘our most influential Australian’: Forrest
The mining billionaire wields plenty of influence in his own right, but says the former Labor prime minister has left the biggest mark on this country in the past 60 years. Watch the VIDEO.
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