Barney Macintyre
Climate Reporter at Tortoise
Business/climate reporter @tortoise. Writing the Boardroom Sensemaker. Email me: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Barney Macintyre
When the Cannes Lions international festival of creativity kicks off on Monday there will be a conspicuous absence among the annual jamboree of advertisers and marketeers. Mark Read, chief executive of WPP, announced he was stepping down last Monday, ending a 30-year career at the UK’s largest advertising group. The industry is at a crossroads, torn between the power of AI and the value of human creativity. Is advertising a tech business or a people business?
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Joe White |Barney Macintyre
Leading British companies are rewriting their yearly surveys in the wake of Donald Trump’s corporate crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion Five years after the murder of George Floyd sparked the Black Lives Matter protests and a rush among corporates to champion diversity, analysis of annual reports by The Observer reveals a sharp decline in mentions of the terms “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) by a majority of FTSE 100 companies.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Barney Macintyre
In a new twist to the ongoing court case, Sheikh Mansour has been linked to the collapsed company NMC Health On Wednesday, in a quiet corner of the Rolls Building judicial courts, the former chairman of EY UK and Ireland was spotted huddled with colleagues, taking a break from the trial next door. So what? Hywel Ball stood down last month and has no personal role in the case concerned, but he’s watching carefully.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Barney Macintyre
Karoli Hindriks has gone from teenage inventor to a global role helping businesses take on overseas employees Karoli Hindriks has always been a fan of the fluorescent. In 1999, aged 16, she started a student company that sold reflectors for pedestrians – fashionable accessories by day and lifesavers by night. Soon after, she took the advice of her father and created a patent, securing her the title of Estonia’s youngest-ever inventor.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Barney Macintyre
The Danish company pulling the plug on its giant windfarm project off the East Yorkshire coast sparks fears of a funeral wake for North Sea energy The choppy waters of the North Sea were never for the faint of heart. Last week came with warnings that taming its riches comes at a cost. First, Ørsted, the Danish energy company, has “discontinued” a large offshore wind project off the coast of East Yorkshire, citing “adverse macroeconomic developments”.
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NEOM, the $500bn megacity being built in Saudi Arabia, has yet to pay bonuses to staff this year, fuelling concerns MBS’s scheme faces a cash crunch and is going to be redrawn. Is this the end of the big boondoggle in the desert? Me for @ObserverUK https://t.co/aXEuMeisoC
RT @katie__riley: Most of us have been very quiet about the future of Tortoise over the past few months – largely, it should be said, out o…
RT @RebeccaHBM: Chuffed that someone like Mishal Husain enjoyed the podcast I worked on with @barneymac back in June. Last year the CBI wa…