The toll of being the face of the Jewish cause
The pressure of a family legal dynasty, four children and leading the Zionist Federation was nothing compared to what came for Jeremy Leibler when he became the voice of Australian Jews after October 7.
Leadership
Joyce’s $16m bonus up in the air
Qantas has hired a high-profile consultant to examine whether the former chief executive deserves to receive his $16m in bonuses.
Best and worst stocks owned by Aussie billionaires
Medical, technology and some mining stocks are hot; Media, retail and gambling are not. These are the winning and losing investments for the Richest 250 so far in 2024.
The ‘invincible’ property CEO who found the calm after the storm
Today he is CEO of Frasers Property Industrial but Reini Otter’s cancer diagnosis after years of stress led him to make big changes for himself, and now warehouse workers and truckies alike.
New Qantas chair queries business support for voice
Corporate Australia’s support for the indigenous voice campaign ‘backfired’, with businesses seen by the public as ‘high and mighty’, according to incoming Qantas chair John Mullen.
Musk’s relationships with women blur boundaries
The billionaire founder had sex with an employee and a former intern at SpaceX and asked a woman at his company to have his babies, former employees say.
Legal danger to directors of taking the eye off AI
Directors face commercial, reputational and regulatory damage if they don’t have enough oversight of their company’s handling of artificial intelligence, says the AICD.
Virgin CEO race now down to two names
The contest has come down to one internal and one external candidate, after four other Virgin nominees have been told they are no longer in contention.
Waislitz predicts surge of M&A in micro and small cap space
Agitating for board and strategy changes at two companies in his micro and small portfolio while pushing for a merger of another has billionaire Alex Waislitz predicting a wave of takeover activity.
Kicking goals for diplomacy with China
MA Financial’s Richard Colless was in his element as he hosted the second annual Duanwu lunch at the Steve Waugh Room at the Sydney Cricket Ground before the Swans’ AFL game against Geelong.
Sacking pushed jobs queen to build a business empire
Sarina Russo says the experience of being fired from her job as a secretary drove her to start what became Australia’s largest private provider of employment services.
The lawyer who helped take Aussie banks to China
Lawyer and China expert David Olsson conceeds relations between Beijing and Canberra are tough but he still sees potential for Australian companies to doing business with China.
Trump’s taunts sparked Kitchen’s KPMG tilt
It was disparaging comments made by Donald Trump about women during the 2016 election campaign that prompted Alison Kitchen to throw her hat in the ring to chair KPMG.
Fund chief has eyes firmly on the future
Greg Combet said he did not come to the role of chairman of the $223bn Future Fund with any preconceived ideas of what it should do.
Feted Besen’s clarion call to save arts sector
Daniel Besen has called on all levels of government and wealthy benefactors to do more to back the arts sector, warning that community-based organisations are in danger of failing.
‘That’s his dream’: daughter moves from dining empire to deal making
Holly Lucas could have cashed in forever on her famous father’s restaurant empire name but has chosen to branch out with friend Alice Wells to start a new venture instead.
How can companies live beyond 100 years?
Longevity in organisations is rarer than you think. Here are some of the habits of healthy old companies.
‘Deer in headlights’: Snarky text over new Myer CEO
Tensions are still running high over the appointment of retail outsider Olivia Wirth to the Myer role. ‘If it was Olivia being announced to run Virgin I would get it, but she is not a retailer.’
The drug dealer’s den that forged a billion-dollar biotech
Alan Taylor’s youth, spent around a Redfern block now notorious for one of Sydney’s most brutal drug-related murders, shaped his career trajectory from banker to successful biotech leader.
‘More than books’: the business of running Victoria’s State Library
Freshly reappointed president Christine Christian has navigated protests and free speech controversies, while retaining lofty global rankings and business partnerships.
‘He’s very dogged’: Terry Snow calls time on Canberra Airport
After paying $65m in 1998 to lease Canberra Airport from the government, one of Australia’s richest men rolled up his sleeves to transform it from tin shed to international gateway.
The animal lover, her dad and the $150m dream
It was the week that changed Tzena Naarden’s life forever. After working with dad Ray to build a pet food business, private equity came knocking. Here’s how it played out.
The need for energy investment is obvious and pressing
The federal government has missed a major opportunity to reinstate certainty for the offshore gas sector.
Real life experience behind $8m philanthropic move
The harrowing death of her husband is behind Melbourne company director Jane Hemstritch’s donation to set up a new pancreatic cancer research facility.
What’s next for the man who landed big pharma’s billions
Some of the biggest drug companies on the planet have paid a fortune for Professor Andrew Wilks patents, and he’s now raised $30m to bankroll fledgling biotechs.
Forget the fads and go for gold: Lamm
The co-founder of one of the nation’s most profitable fund managers, L1 Capital’s Rafi Lamm, has urged investors not to get ‘sucked in by current fads’ such as the explosion of AI.
The US tech titan chasing $1bn Down Under
ServiceNow chief Bill McDermott says Australia is one of the tech juggernaut’s biggest growth markets, as artificial intelligence transforms the way we do business.
WiseTech moves to take bigger slice of logistics pie
WiseTech founder Richard White says his company is taking a bigger piece of the logistics pie by moving into customs and compliance.
O’Kane’s Macquarie exit pay plummet
The millionaires factory grabbed headlines last year when Nick O’Kane took home $57m in the 2023 financial year but this year it was a fraction of that sum.
Why this exec hired workers no one else would
Randy Lewis redefined what it means to be a valued worker in the US and now he wants Australian businesses to follow his lead. It’s all thanks to the love and lessons from one very special son.
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