Nixing middlemen and establishing owned sales and distribution promises greater rewards – but not without a fair bit of increased risk. Thankfully it’s not

Certain head injuries make people lose the ability to read facial cues. Research from AUT's Centre for eHealth is helping them get it back

As emerging markets continue to develop, so too do their need for the infrastructure, technology and know-how of the western world.

Penelope Whitson discovers the best way to put paid to all this dirty politics rubbish: bring back the typewriter

Agony Lance hands out his best Uncle Wiggs advice for early-stage companies. He has tips on hiring (your mates), growing (no big, hairy audacious

Our second largest export market, trade to the United States is expected to be worth over $6 billion in 2014. Those export dollars are

With two-way trade of just over $1 billion, India is NZ 18th largest trading partner. Yet it has an economy and population comparable to

Nelson-based Supreme Biotechnologies grows a unique type of micro-algae and turns it into dietary supplements. Now the company is growing as fast as its

After recent reports that Australian supermarkets were taking Kiwi products off their shelves, NZTE Australia and Pacific regional director Michelle Templer says there’s a

Taking the plunge and establishing full-blown operations overseas sounds like a big step. It is. But it’s not an impossible one.

Retiring Fonterra Brands boss Peter McClure has a few tips on how to tell a winner brand from a stinker

Where do ideas come from? An interesting question that, particularly for a columnist faced with a looming deadline and writer’s block.

“I won’t be a rock star,” said Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury. “I will be a legend.” A year after Sydney-based economist Paul Bloxham

Rapidly evolving internet technologies and business models, means a host of Kiwi businesses are finding they don’t need to leave the long white cloud

It seems you can’t walk through an airport bookshop these days without having your eyeballs assaulted by shelf after shelf of books promising all

The advent of summer means breaking out the eskie and packing cold beer for the beach. Maybe that’s why food companies are incorporating beer

When Darren Turner, general manager of reuseable takeaway coffee cup company Cuppacoffeecup decided to launch into the Australian market he had a couple

In any market, finding a good in-market partner is often item number one on the exporting to-do list. But beware: many New Zealand companies

Don’t bother striving for work/ life balance because it’s probably not going to happen, says Erin Reilly. Instead, integrate the two.

During her recent visit to New Zealand, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington reinforced her “Sleep your way to the top” mantra. Her argument is

The war of the flea was the first book I read on military doctrine, and even though I was only 13 or so at

Dear Fellow New Zealanders,

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the twenty-first century is the most talked-of tome on inequality since a similarly-named book by that German guy in the

The Best Design Awards unveil the brightest stars in Australasian design. Leigh Stockton picks some favourites from the winners’ list.

Wealth inequality has gone from a fringe concern to one of the defining issues of our time. It’s even become something that New Zealand

“The business enterprise has two – and only two – basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest

Drones have had a bad rap, with good reason. The first thing that comes to mind is their use as stealth weapons, armed with

"Managing your energy” could sound like advice straight from the pages of Crystals Monthly. But how about Harvard Business Review?