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3 weeks ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Jacques Steenkamp |Victoria Carter |Rebecca Howard |Rebecca Stevenson
Brooke van Velden attended St Cuthbert’s College and then studied economics and international trade at the University of Auckland, graduating with degrees in arts and commerce. Formerly a Green Party supporter, she worked at Parliament as a key part of Act Party leader David Seymour’s successful campaign to give New Zealanders the right to a dignified death through the End of Life Choice Act.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Victoria Carter |Rebecca Howard |Rebecca Stevenson |Riley Kennedy
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Professor John Fraser, who was dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences for 12 years until 2024 and has worked at the University of Auckland for 42 years. I was really disappointed when: I couldn’t stay in the US! I had become utterly enamoured with medical research in Boston, it was so exciting.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Oliver Lewis |Dileepa Fonseka |Victoria Carter
This article was originally published on May 15, 2024.Half the board members from a company controlling more than $5 billion of assets on behalf of the Christchurch City Council have abruptly resigned, citing a breakdown in the relationship with the council over its request to frontload dividends. Christchurch City Holdings (CCHL) announced the exodus on Wednesday night, the same day councillors met in secret to discuss governance-related issues, according to agenda documents.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Victoria Carter
Every fortnight, Victoria Carter spoke to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. Here are some excerpts.Diane Foreman, entrepreneur and businesswomanWhat do I know: I know how important resilience is. It’s taken me a long time to realise my journey is mine, and it’s the only one I can control. When the worst happens, it’s how you come back that matters and how much you respect yourself. Only you can make it better. Own your mistakes.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Tony Falkenstein, founder and chief executive of Just Life Group. He is an experienced entrepreneur and has received several business awards. He was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame and appointed as an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to business.I was really disappointed when a young man I hoped I could mentor didn’t help himself.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Nicola Taylor, co-founder of Tax Traders, a fintech that builds software tools for accountants, and of Taxi, which enables small businesses to borrow against their provisional tax. Simplicity recently took an 18% stake in their holding company.I was really disappointed when: Well, so many of us were disappointed when covid hit.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Victoria Carter |Victoria Young |Tamara Poi-Ngawhika
By James R. Hagerty As a prisoner in Nazi death camps during World War II, Lily Engelman vowed that – if she survived – she would one day bear witness to the systematic slaughter of Jews.After the war, she emigrated from Hungary to Israel, where she found sewing work in a mattress factory. She married another Hungarian-speaking Jew, Shmuel Ebert, who had fled Europe before the war. Despite her vow, however, she found herself rarely even mentioning the Holocaust.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Peter Gordon, ONZM, a chef, restaurateur, writer and food consultant looking for the next way to bring community, good food and food producers together. I was really disappointed when I was turned down for an apprenticeship with Air New Zealand in 1978. I wanted to be a chef.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Jim Boult, CNZM, businessman and former mayor of Queenstown.I was really disappointed: when I was mayor; we were struggling with much-needed infrastructure spend. We had 23,000 ratepayers and a permanent population of 40,000, and on a busy night, we might have 120,000 people in the district.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Jim Boult, CNZM, businessman and former mayor of Queenstown.I was really disappointed: when I was mayor; we were struggling with much-needed infrastructure spend. We had 23,000 ratepayers and a permanent population of 40,000, and on a busy night, we might have 120,000 people in the district.
