September
Australia’s 10 most powerful business leaders in 2022
In a market as small as Australia, big is powerful. So it’s no surprise that the leaders of the largest companies again dominate the annual corporate power list.
- James Thomson
Australia’s five most powerful property people in 2022
Just when the property sector was finally learning to live with the virus, it was hit with a fresh wave of disruption.
- Nick Lenaghan
Australia’s most powerful consultants in 2022
The consulting firms were flying in 2021-22, a lack of qualified staff being the main constraint on growth. The big move this year is Accenture Australia asserting its presence by growing rapidly to be about the same size as PwC.
- Edmund Tadros and Hannah Wootton
Three women in the education Power List, but a man takes top spot
As the pandemic crisis eases, the sector has to face up to some big challenges and hopes are high that Jason Clare will deliver on the high expectations.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
This exec started out flipping burgers. Now he runs a $2b company
Tabcorp chief executive Adam Rytenskild never finished university, and now he is taking on some of the world’s most powerful wagering companies.
- Elouise Fowler
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Boards need skin in the game
Why do so many directors own so few shares in the companies they steward? Investor John Wylie says it means there is a poor alignment between boards and shareholders.
- Tony Boyd
- Opinion
- Sporting rules
Why lessons from America’s Cup win still matter
Australia II became the pride of the nation when skipper John Bertrand and his crew won the America’s Cup in 1983. Bertrand is still passing on the lessons that come from losing – and coming back to win.
- Jennifer Hewett
This expat’s first offshore role is running $18b insurer QBE
British-born Andrew Horton took the job in Australia because he feared he had ‘missed out on something’.
- Liam Walsh
Billionaires are on notice as Patagonia founder gives away the company
Yvon Chouinard lived out of his car and on cat food while he was building up the outdoor apparel giant. Now all future profits will go towards combatting climate change.
- David Gelles
What I learnt from running a $13b tech company
Xero chief Steve Vamos has six tips for success.
- Sally Patten
Meet the 27-year-old with degrees from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford
Online education company founder Jamie Beaton says getting into the top universities in the world has opened up enormous opportunities for him.
- Sally Patten
Why King Charles will have to rein it in now that he is on the throne
While Prince of Wales, he was active in promoting his causes with ministers and making his opinions known.
- Robert Shrimsley
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Queen’s banker: my lunch with Her Majesty
Brian Hartzer was privileged to sit next to Queen Elizabeth II at lunch in the dining room of Coutts & Co in London a decade ago. It gave him insights into her curiosity and love of Australia.
- Updated
- Tony Boyd
This bank boss failed to make the Arsenal team. The rest is history
In 1978, at the age of 16, Joseph Healy tried out for the soccer team. He is now CEO of Judo Bank.
- James Eyers
What this rising star learnt after a brutal career setback
Losing her seat in the election put a full stop on Terri Butler’s career for the first time in two decades. Here’s why she isn’t in a hurry to go back to work.
- Tess Bennett
Why this maths genius refuses to work for a hedge fund
Australian-born mathematics genius Terence Tao has been unmoved by offers to work in finance, preferring the freedom of academia.
- Tess Bennett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The 46 companies on CEW’s shame file
Respected Australian companies, many heavily reliant on women for their prosperity, are on a shame file that is a measure of how far we haven’t come on gender diversity in business.
- Tony Boyd
- Opinion
- BOSS
Lessons from this book will make you a better director
Directors’ intention is to protect themselves against accusations of failed governance when something inevitably goes wrong.
- Rod Sims
‘Going nowhere fast’: Women leading ASX companies
The proportion of key operational roles occupied by women at ASX200 companies rose just 3 percentage points to 15 per cent between 2017 and 2022.
- Sally Patten
10 long reads for the weekend
Australia’s five worst super funds revealed; Twiggy, Lew and Eddie all aboard Lindsay Fox’s $5m birthday cruise; and the employment perks that work (and the ones that don’t).
