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In the early evening of 22 April a dozen women, all members of the group ‘Changing the Diversity of Scottish Boards’ met, where else, but in the board room of a leading investment company in Edinburgh. We were there to listen to one woman’s story …

 
 
 
 
 
Scotland is not short of enterprising women… with more than 60,000 female-led businesses, it has proportionately more women in business than many other parts of the UK. These businesses are generating more than £5 billion for Scotland’s economy, and women are starting businesses in every …

The Coalition government seem to be going backwards in regards to the women’s enterprise agenda as they try to force a mainstream business support and services strategy.
The Women’s Business Council and the IPPR review led by the Deputy Prime Minister, that looked at lending discrimination …

The History Channel is currently showing a drama-documentary series called ‘The men who built America’ featuring none other than our founder, Andrew Carnegie alongside a number of well-known nineteenth and twentieth century entrepreneurs, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, JP Morgan.
These men, so the strapline goes, are credited …

I am all for enterprise and success in business whether it is a man or woman in charge. For the last five years many businesses have struggled to grow, even survive. Any entrepreneur who builds a business during this recession, to me, has heroic qualities …

This time last year I was dipping my toes into the most parasitic region of the private sector in an act of desperation, and unsurprisingly, they very quickly got bitten off. Whilst I’m sure that there are a lot of principled and decent businesses out …