I am a child of Club Med, that notorious 1970s hotel resort chain created by Gilbert Trigano more than six decades ago. Club Med was built on the concept of all-inclusive vacations so appealing to Brits, but for me, apart from providing fond childhood memories, it symbolised the rare business...

Vienna November 2012, Palace Ferstel, in the grand settings of the Palace, memories of Menger, Hayek, Freud and Kohr laced with Elizabeth Of Austria presence are lingering. Mitteleuropa no more...or actually more than ever?
This is the gala dinner of the 4th Peter Drucker Forum, the Austrian- born writer,...

In this issue, I want to tell you about watches, but I wanted you to hear it from the horse's mouth - the collectors:

Singapore-based Melvyn Teillol-Foo, founder of PuristSPro, a reference website for watch lovers in Asia, collects with and for his wife and speaks fondly of the...

Once upon a time there was a young and driven boy called David.

David did not pursue an academic career and at the tender age of eighteen years old, he joined the fascinating and glittering life of hotel concierge for the rich and famous. Sliding through the velvety corridors...

We have said goodbye to lazy afternoons in London parks and drinking 2012 Pimms - a Jubilee and Olympic vintage!

Looking back, I realised something was weaving in all these alternative investment columns, from wine to impact investing or art, a sacrosanct concept repeated like an Andy Warhol diptych -...

What is interesting about culture? This was the opening question of Steve Crossan the Head of Google Cultural Institute to kick off the REMIX Summit.

Organized by CultureLabel, a pioneer company in cultural entrepreneurship, REMIX summit took place last Thursday, 27th of September 2012 at Bloomberg Headquarter...

I am starting to wonder, if I am turning into a serial networker? Or if I am embracing what I am preaching: to develop your innovation skills you have to push yourself out of your cognitive comfort zone?

September 27th crystallised this very question into my head.

It was just a month ago that the movers and shakers of the wine world got back from their very first taste of Bordeaux 2011. The results of the tasting were mixed and, with the financial crisis still roaring, the question of wine as an attractive alternative investment continues to...

This was the title of a fascinating talk given by Serge Borg at Club Eight on March 7, drawing on his 20-plus years of experience doing business in Africa. We had our very own private Indaba, held strategically in the heart of the city. In a very unorthodox...

Do you remember back when you were a young student, probably in biology class, and you learned the concept of the ecosystem? How you learned that all organisms living in a particular area interact with each other to ultimately create a sustainable and mutually beneficial environment?

Stéphane Distinguin --

Are we on the verge of an innovation revolution in Paris?

Forget London, Hong Kong and the BRIC countries, the innovative awakening of the European Union is subtly happening in the old heart of Europe. Before you start smiling, there is no national pride in play whatsoever - I...

Reading Dear Lucy's uncertain answer to a distressed mother asking "How do I help my job seeking daughter?" in the 9 November Financial Times, I could not help but think: entrepreneurship is the future. You might all already have figured this out!

Just open any newspapers this week,...

While the economic world and media are focused on the European mayhem, no one is looking at an oozing-with-confidence Asia.

While everyone is agonising and - it has to be said - speculating over the burning question of the future of the European Union, the resolution to Greece's debt crisis...