Diesel denim empire got off to an Aussie start
Renzo Rosso hasn't forgotten a favour that put Diesel on the fashion map.
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Effects test: Malcolm Turnbull comes to blows with big business over competition reform
Elizabeth Knight The Goliaths of big business have sustained a damaging loss against the small business Davids thanks to the Turnbull government's decision to beef up competition laws.
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ASX boss Elmer Funke Kupper needs to set the record straight
Elizabeth Knight Explosive allegations of a $200,000 payment to the family of the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen by Tabcorp in 2010 during the reign of the now head of ASX, Elmer Funke Kupper, need to be cleared up...
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Telstra boss Andy Penn - daredevil to hero
Elizabeth Knight Telstra boss Andy Penn has been transformed from risk taker to hero by taking his chips off the table.
Risk Room
How thinking big saved surf innovator Hayden Cox
Elizabeth Knight With his back to the wall during the GFC, surf innovator Hayden Cox had a radical survival plan that worked.
SurfStitch chief has gone rogue
Elizabeth Knight The sports retailer's less than buoyoant share price of late presented opportunities for predators. But the board seems to have been caught by surprise it was their own CEO.
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Fortescue Metals trades look like something fishy
Elizabeth Knight A share price surge this big requires some explaining.
BHP and Fortescue Metals making big plays in the sharemarket casino
Elizabeth Knight There is good reason for investors to curb their exuberance about yet another extension to the rally in iron ore prices.
Nurse Amanda McClelland finds reward in danger hotspots
Elizabeth Knight Amanda has been held at gunpoint, accused of spying and tackled Ebola in jungle hospitals. But she won't call herself a risk-taker.
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Who is trying to skewer changes to negative gearing?
Elizabeth Knight Calling for an all points bulletin to find the mystery person or group that commissioned the explosive new report hailing disastrous consequences from abandoning negative gearing on property.
Relaxation of ownership laws – too late to excite the media moguls
Elizabeth Knight If investors are waiting for some movement in response to proposed changes to media laws, they could be headed for disappointment.
How Slater & Gordon's lawyers lost $958 million
Elizabeth Knight In a long history of ill-judged and poorly executed corporate acquisitions, law firm Slater & Gordon's purchase of the professional services division of UK's Quindell is a standout.
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Who sank Dick Smith? The hunt is on
Elizabeth Knight Dick Smith enters a new chapter this week as the real search for culpability begins.
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Hot seat waiting for Woolworths chairman Gordon Cairns
Elizabeth Knight Woolworths chairman Gordon Cairns would dearly love to be able to deliver investors a new chief executive on Friday.
Risk Room
'You are going to ruin your life': the day Steve Waugh walked out
Elizabeth Knight Legendary Australian cricketer Steve Waugh's biggest risk wasn't taken on the pitch.
Telstra changes the guard with tough new chairman John Mullen
Elizabeth Knight Telstra's chairman-elect John Mullen is a master of timing.
Telstra moves the pieces around the board table with choice of John Mullen
Elizabeth Knight Telstra's chairman-elect John Mullen is a master of timing. In a career sense he is Johnny-on-the-spot - a man waiting for the axe to fall as his giant rail and port group Asciano is about to be...
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Qantas profit climbs steeply towards cruising altitude
Elizabeth Knight Much was expected from the nation's biggest airline, it didn't disappoint.
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Settlement soothes soft sounding shivers
Elizabeth Knight This case was large, public and embarrassing, now it's gone.
Sir Richard Branson: Why you should say yes
Elizabeth Knight It takes a true entrepreneur to turn down a cheque for $240 million.
NBN finally bites into Telstra's profit
Elizabeth Knight There's a pincer squeezing the telco giant.
