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EY Germany: Champion in Professional Services
When a company with over 10,000 employees is soon celebrating its 100th birthday, it doesn’t really run the risk of being considered hip and unconventional. And if assurance services play a major role on top of that, well then the
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CFI.co Meets the EY Germany Management Team: Hubert Barth & Julie Linn Teigland
Hubert Barth Country Managing Partner EY Germany Hubert Barth (49) has over 25 years of experience in the professional services industry, mainly in accounting and transaction advisory services. He started his career after earning a degree in business administration at
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CFI.co Meets the Group CEO of KBC: Johan Thijs
KBC Group barrelled ahead in the wake of the financial crisis and hasn’t looked back since. What explains your remarkable success as a bank and a creator of shareholder value? There are a multitude of reasons. One of the main
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Blue Lagoon: An Otherworldly Experience
Originally founded to unlock the extraordinary benefits of geothermal seawater, Blue Lagoon integrates science, sustainability, nature, and design — creating experiences that take the mind and body to new dimensions of wellbeing. In April of 2018, the company will open
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British Airways: Best Premium Travel Experience Global
Unveiling a major investment drive to upgrade its long-haul business and premium economy class services, British Airways aims to reassert its transatlantic dominance and nibble away at the increasingly fierce competition. The changes will first be implemented on BA’s flagship
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The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) of UNCDF: Climate Change Impacts on Natural and Human Systems
“For women, the road was crucial. It was hard to deliver babies because of access: we had to go to the hospital by boat – it was risky. And also for the children, floods made it impossible for them to
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Book Review: Private Island – Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
A Balance Disturbed for All the Wrong Reasons It remains somewhat of a mystery how Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne manages the UK government’s financial affairs. Presiding over a buoyant economy, planning the biggest privatisation exercise ever, and mandating
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Preference Pass: Sunny Travel Savings Franchise
Avid world travelers may have experienced the hopelessness of arriving in a foreign land with little information and knowledge. At best the wary traveler ends up paying a premium for sub-par goods and services. By the time the ins and
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Fidel Castro: An Antagonist Remembered
The last Marxist-Leninist to hold a place on the world stage has left, signalling the end to an era that saw revolutionists taunt empires and topple autocratic regimes. A charismatic romantic to the very end, Fidel Castro died on November
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A Sojourn in Davos: Things Will Never Be the Same
Book Review – The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann For all its potential as a canvas for the display of human suffering, sick-lit never quite made it as a genre. In her 1926 essay On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf expressed
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