Tread carefully when reporting operational losses

How a company’s announcement of its operational losses is reported by the media can affect the market value of the business, with a study showing more negative stories about such losses led to more dramatic declines in value. The study by researchers at the University of Plymouth Business School and Nottingham University Business School analyzed …

It’s a funny old game

Football’s elevation to the status of universal language never ceases to amaze. The beautiful game is nowadays a conversation-starter nonpareil almost anywhere in the world. Consider the experience of a friend who recently visited a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Keen to engage in a vaguely spiritual discussion, he asked a monk about the former abbots …