If you know a Mandarin speaker with a US passport or green card and a good dollop of operations experience, give Spinnaker's Amy Travell a call. She has a lovely job for you in New York City.

TWICE a year Mercer sends a whole load of lucky people to the shops to find out how much things cost. 200 things to be precise, from a loaf of bread to a glass of moon juice. They also throw in the cost of accommodation and then benchmark 143 cities against the cost of those same things in New York which is given the base value of 100 in the index.

When a senior executive leaves and takes with him/her valuable information and contacts to help him in a new and competing business, there is no time to waste if the ex-employer wants to get a “springboard injunction” to prevent that executive and his new business unfairly taking advantage of that information and those contacts…

WHAT is the collective noun for purchasers? A budget of purchasers? A discount of purchasers?

It was in 1999 that I attended the Lloyd's List annual awards in the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. I was there to collect the Youth and Training Award from William O'Neil, the then head of IMO, for a presentation I had written on seafarer development with my employer Reederei “NORD” Klaus E. Oldendorff of Limassol, Cyprus, where I was the General Manager…

Pension experts last month said that final-salary pension schemes were “finished” after three big firms moved to reduce members' benefits…

Here's a novel way to measure your command of a particular language