Leadership

Herbert Hainer

After dreaming of becoming a professional footballer, Hainer supplies soccer’s elite

Excursus on fitness – Josef Dabernig

Visitors to Excursus on Fitness at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna will be confronted by what artist and filmmaker Josef Dabernig is calling a ‘sport pinakothek’, a gallery of gymnastics – by Jo Caird

Boris FJ Collardi

Wealth management’s fastest rising star is now showing what he’s got at the helm of one of Zurich’s most established financial organisations

Guillaume Pepy

The man behind SNCF must sometimes feel as though he’s hurtling into problems at the speed of one of his TGVs. Selywn Parker discusses the track Pepy has decided to ride down

Dr Werner Vogels

As Amazon’s technical guru, Dr Werner Vogels is only too well aware that advanced technologies are only part of the formula for success

Jørgen Vig Knudstorp

After 72 years as a family run business, Lego brought in outsider Jørgen Vig Knudstorp to bring it back from the brink. Jane Bordenave examines how the new boy saved a Danish treasure

Werner Wenning

Werner Wenning’s appointment as CEO of German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer in 2001 was the culmination of a lifetime’s dedication to the company he joined at the age of 20

Stanislas de Quercize

How does someone become the president of one of the world’s most exclusive jewellery houses?

Severin Schwan

Rejuvenated Roche has revealed record sales in the teeth of a recession. Its young 42-year-old CEO Severin Schwan has also masterminded its $47m takeover of biotech star Genentech. Schwan is investing in science, not short-term sales. Will it work?

Norberto Ferretti’s learning curve

At the Genoa Boat show – the finale of last year’s big nautical exhibitions – as usual, the Ferretti boats attracted more than their fair share of attention among the hundreds of gleaming exhibits

Coaching in corporations

A recent study by the International Coach Federation has highlighted the extraordinary impact professional coaching can have on a company’s revenue

Jürgen Hambrecht

When Jürgen Hambrecht became chairman of BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, he took the helm of one of the world’s most important companies

Paul Polman

Polman quit the world’s biggest personal care company – P&G – when he didn’t get the top job. Now head of arch-rival Unilever, it’s pay-back time for this long-distance runner. But can Polman move fast enough to topple P&G?

Baudouin Prot

That BNP Paribas has emerged from the global banking crisis relatively unscathed is more by design than good fortune, and largely the design of one man

Vladimir Yakunin

The Russian Railways CEO has all the credentials that fits with Russia’s modern authoritarian corporate state. He’s a man the West needs to watch

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