This Month
The ill-fitting nightclub top behind a multimillion-dollar business
When Annabel Hay’s fashion tape let her down on a nightclub dance floor, her wardrobe malfunction became a fast-growing company selling modesty-saving glue.
- Updated
- Amelia McGuire
- Opinion
- Rear Window
WiseTech’s Richard White is out. Now for his joy
Do you think the randy professor’s references hit a little differently now?
- Myriam Robin
Barrenjoey’s bankers are all about founder mode
Founder worship is rarely seen in investment banking. Except at Australia’s favourite finance start-up.
- Mark Di Stefano
November
This ex-big four partner has automated his LinkedIn posts
An AI-driven tool helps former big four consulting partner John Riccio take only about five minutes a week to create and schedule five LinkedIn posts.
- Edmund Tadros
‘Stealth sackings’ are the new workplace trend
As companies try to rein in costs and restrict initiatives that do not help profits, workers are wary of being quietly laid off for seemingly minor violations.
- Anjli Raval
AI now critical for job hunting success, recruiters say
It is becoming acceptable to use the technology to draft letters and CVs — but not to answer assessments.
- Bethan Staton
Airtree’s Craig Blair didn’t mean to defend ‘brilliant jerks’
This is capitalism for and by gods. Or by very naughty boys.
- Myriam Robin
Pratt announces move to the US
One of Australia’s richest men is a member of Donald Trump’s private Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, and has previously voiced admiration for the US president-elect.
- Primrose Riordan
October
LinkedIn still a safe place for WiseTech’s Richard White
How do you know the stories are true, asked Tech Council member and Airwallex founder Jack Zhang.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- Governance
Chris Ellison and Richard White should stand aside
MinRes and WiseTech have done the minimum necessary to buy time. The companies are offering crisis management, not good governance.
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- Helen Bird
Tech Council board picked Richard White over Robin Khuda
One must pity the Tech Council of Australia, newly tied to Richard White, who joined its board in late June.
- Myriam Robin
Reddit’s ‘LinkedIn Lunatics’ shames the platform’s creepiest posts
On the subreddit, 670,000 members lament the rise of “insufferable” content on the Microsoft-owned professional networking site.
- Alicia Tang
Blackwattle Partners says it’s too expensive to hire women
Pedestals are nothing if not slippery. Just ask Blackwattle Investment Partners.
- Myriam Robin
September
George Frazis becomes the Madonna of banking
“George” is the banking equivalent of a triple threat: he can handle it all!
- Myriam Robin
ASX’s ‘almost retired’ board candidate rides again
There’s nothing like a generational governance failure to convince a serial board candidate their chances of election are greater than Buckley’s.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- Ageing
What, me? Retire? Just because I’m 80?
Ageism is still rife in the workplace, assuming older employees can hang onto a job at all. This is a problem, as not all Boomers are wealthy.
- Updated
- Pilita Clark
Hyped unicorn Linktree is another ZIRP horror story
Accounts for the one-time tech darling make for eye-watering reading.
- Mark Di Stefano
August
Stiglitz gets The Australia Institute into Treasury
It’s remarkable how many doors suddenly open when one is the minder of an academic rock star.
- Myriam Robin
Uber targets car rentals after Carshare failure
Uber has blamed a blow-out in operational costs for the failure of its Carshare service, which will cease business from September 12.
- Paul Smith
Prominent lawyer’s haunting post before superyacht tragedy
The Clifford Chance legal partner was aboard tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s boat to celebrate their marathon courtroom victory when it sank off the coast of Sicily.
- Kate Beioley, Caroline Binham and Brooke Masters
