Currency Management
Opinion: Why a strong currency can be good for business
Learning how to live with a strong currency
Chocolate milk madness: was it all planned or a happy accident?; dolleroes from algae (no, really) and NZ’s rockstar economy (yeah, right). Our first ever pink issue looks behind the Lewis Road Creamery frenzy, checks out the economic prognosis for 2015, and shows how escaping two civil wars taught an Auckland tech entrepreneur heaps about risk. Plus: Brand Aid; Nelson’s algae boom; and tips for a healthy workplace (including the benefits of doing nothing). Oh, and there’s an annoying talking trash can.
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Learning how to live with a strong currency
Investment
Investment wisdom from Idealog’s favourite agony uncle
It’s a no-brainer that happier, healthier, stress-free employees will take less time off work and be more productive. But what should an employer be doing about producing these paragons of wellness – and will it work?
Health/Wellbeing
Penelope Whitson examines her own inner sloth and discovers doing nothing is good for business.
Brand
Try doing a eulogy about your brand. You may discover a whole new life.
Cloud
Your business can be anywhere in the world – so why would your talent choose New Zealand?
Education
How and why we educate students today has a direct and fundamental bearing on the world they will create for the future. So let’s consider something: are we doing it right?
Profile
By the time he was nine, Danushka Abeysuriya and his family had experienced nick-oftime escapes from not one, but two, war zones. Not surprisingly, this gave him a non-traditional view on risk, and he founded his own game development company at the tender age of 24. Four years later the company has 20 staff and counts Microsoft, TVNZ, Samsung, Heineken and National Geographic among its clients.
Startups
Grimy worms upcycling organic waste into fertiliser seems to be the way of the future – at least it won the hearts (and pockets) of venture capitalists at a recent student entrepreneur competition.
Architecture
Idealog looks at how office design has affected this architectural firm's company culture.
Idealogic
Only three things in life are inevitable, dear Idealog readers: death, taxes, and magazines using tired old quotes
Feature
Chocolate milk madness. WTF?
Trade
NZ-India bilateral trade
Technology
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 product.
Where do ideas come from? An interesting question that, particularly for a columnist faced with a looming deadline and writer’s block.
Economy
“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 gave New Zealand’s economy its “rock star” status, Fiona Rotherham asks whether we truly have a rock star economy, whether legendary status is a possibility, or whether we’re going to start slipping down the charts in 2015
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 into all sorts of unexpected things. Here are a few we sampled:
Don’t bother striving for work/ life balance because it’s probably not going to happen, says Erin Reilly. Instead, integrate the two.