The curse of the “high end”   Nothing like a good old crisis to challenge our assumptions and change our perspectives. In the old days – say before the end of 2008 – it was said that no matter what the type of business, being at the high-end of...

Mergers and acquisitions, a pendulum swing Mergers and acquisitions, is yet another area being transformed by the current economic downturn. Hit hard by the credit squeeze, M&A activity is starting to show signs of life again, although...

Doing One's Homework These few words are very evocative of how off-putting it can sometimes appear to not only make decisions on a hunch but instead perform all the analysis that any given situation requires. It would seem that if circumstances...

If your company is not directly affected, you have surely read about it in the business pages of the media: to the pressure that raising raw material prices has been putting on companies’ profit and loss account over the last few years, another...

  As the world economy once again seems to be headed for a difficult patch, decision makers and investors face significant uncertainty. The choices they must make touch upon the economic, the strategic, and sometimes the ethical, as some recent...