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		<title>FT column: Fixation on gender quotas is a distraction</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4b44abcc-53ee-11e1-bacb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1mDJTQGGl</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/ft-column-fixation-on-gender-quotas-is-a-distraction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gender fatigue is the secret lassitude that grips chief executives and directors when asked for the Nth time to discuss targets, quotas, audits and reports aimed at bringing more women into the boardroom.]]></description>
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		<title>Capello&#8217;s exit makes Hester look tough</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/capellos-exit-makes-hester-look-tough/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/capellos-exit-makes-hester-look-tough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A highly paid manager doing his duty for the nation resigns in a huff after his ultimate paymasters interfere with his right to manage. Fabio Capello, manager of the England football team, has done what Stephen Hester, chief executive of &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/capellos-exit-makes-hester-look-tough/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Capello&#8217;s exit makes Hester look tough"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>FT column: Don’t put venture capital at risk</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ed0e87a6-51c4-11e1-a30c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1lqZqxXJ9</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/ft-column-don%e2%80%99t-put-venture-capital-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gapper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who wouldn’t want to be a venture capitalist right now? Investment bankers may be reviled and private equity executives hammered but Silicon Valley’s billionaire elite can do no wrong.]]></description>
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		<title>Reckitt&#8217;s brave new world</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/reckitts-brave-new-world/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/reckitts-brave-new-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colgate-Palmolive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procter & Gamble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rakesh Kapoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reckitt Benckiser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unilever]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rakesh Kapoor has been in charge of Reckitt Benckiser for less than a  year but already he&#8217;s changed the world. Or, more accurately, he&#8217;s changed Reckitt&#8217;s view of the world, by merging its European and North American operations into one &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/reckitts-brave-new-world/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Reckitt&#8217;s brave new world"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>FT column: Big Pharma should learn from Hogwarts</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/ft-column-big%e2%80%89pharma-should-learn-from-hogwarts/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/ft-column-big%e2%80%89pharma-should-learn-from-hogwarts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharmaceuticals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Potter and Viagra have more in common than you may imagine. They came to market within a year of each other in the late-1990s; they enjoyed enormous success; and what was a boon for the companies that produced and &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/ft-column-big%e2%80%89pharma-should-learn-from-hogwarts/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"FT column: Big Pharma should learn from Hogwarts"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The unbearable vagueness of Zuckerberg</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/the-unbearable-vagueness-of-mark-zuckerberg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/the-unbearable-vagueness-of-mark-zuckerberg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gapper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, sets himself an admirable test in the company’s filing for an initial public offering – “that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/the-unbearable-vagueness-of-mark-zuckerberg/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"The unbearable vagueness of Zuckerberg"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Fred, title inflation and bad business baronets</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/fred-title-inflation-and-bad-business-baronets/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/fred-title-inflation-and-bad-business-baronets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Goodwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times story about the humiliation of Fred Goodwin describes Britain as &#8220;a land where essentially feudal titles still carry great prestige&#8221;. True-ish. But I have to say that the UK doesn&#8217;t do business honours like it used to. I&#8217;ve &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/02/fred-title-inflation-and-bad-business-baronets/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Fred, title inflation and bad business baronets"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Misguided pitchforks for &#8216;Mr Fred&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/01/misguided-pitchforks-for-mr-fred/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/01/misguided-pitchforks-for-mr-fred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Goodwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lloyds Banking Group]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Mackintosh, investment editor Arise, Mr Fred Goodwin. The banker who single-handedly brought down the British banking system has had his knighthood stripped away, and no one is sorry. Politicians, the public and the press are united in supporting &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/01/misguided-pitchforks-for-mr-fred/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Misguided pitchforks for &#8216;Mr Fred&#8217;"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>FT column: More than two reasons against dual heads</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ba94ef96-482c-11e1-b1b4-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1kzNXYiVU</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/01/ft-column-more-than-two-reasons-against-dual-heads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll say one thing for co-chief executives: two scapegoats are better than one. Since Research in Motion’s fortunes took a sharp turn for the worse last year, its dual-leadership structure has taken a beating. With the BlackBerry-maker’s decision last week &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/01/ft-column-more-than-two-reasons-against-dual-heads/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"FT column: More than two reasons against dual heads"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Three reasons why Stephen Hester is exceptional</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/01/three-reasons-why-stephen-hester-is-exceptional/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/01/three-reasons-why-stephen-hester-is-exceptional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[António Horta-Osório]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lloyds Banking Group]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Hester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Financial Investments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Politicians would like to think that Stephen Hester&#8217;s decision to give up his bonus marks the start of a mass renunciation of &#8220;excessive pay&#8221; by private sector bosses. It is certainly time the UK corporate and political world moved on &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog/2012/01/three-reasons-why-stephen-hester-is-exceptional/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Three reasons why Stephen Hester is exceptional"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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