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    Andrew Hill

    Senior business writer

    Andrew Hill is senior business writer at the FT and consulting editor, FT Live. He is a former management editor, City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor. He is the author of ‘Leadership in the Headlines’ (2016), a collection of his columns, and ‘Ruskinland’ (2019), about the enduring influence of Victorian thinker John Ruskin. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.

    Andrew was named Business Commentator of the Year at the 2016 Comment Awards and Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.

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    • Monday, 17 June, 2024
      The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
      Best summer books of 2024: Business

      Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads

    • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
      Work & Careers
      Silent lay-offs are rarely as quiet as bosses hope

      Attempts to control how staff communicate their own departures often cause more problems than they solve

      PwC’s office in London
    • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
      Special ReportWomen in Business
      ‘How I got here’: Southbank Centre’s Elaine Bedell on her career path

      The CEO of London’s prestigious arts complex on navigating the traditional sharp lines between ‘executive’ and ‘creative’

      A woman in a bright red suit sits confidently in an empty auditorium. She has short brown hair and a composed expression, with her hands resting on the armrest of the seat. The background shows rows of beige chairs
    • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
      Working It18 min listen
      Best of: How Scandinavia cracked the productivity puzzle

      Lessons from our most (and least) productive peers

    • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
      ObituaryStanley Goldstein
      Stanley Goldstein, retail magnate, 1934-2024

      The co-founder of the CVS pharmacy chain oversaw its expansion from a pair of stores into a business behemoth

      Close up of Stanley Goldsetin in shirt, tie and blazer and wearing glasses
    • Monday, 13 May, 2024
      ReviewBusiness books
      Business books: what to read this month

      Lessons from venture capital, problems with innovation, and the tips and tricks to learn something new

    • Monday, 22 April, 2024
      Corporate governance
      Dear board directors, please don’t shoot the proxy messenger

      Diligent advisers and engaged investors are vital for a well-functioning shareholder democracy

      The proper focus of board members’ ire about revolting shareholders ought to be asset owners and managers themselves
    • Monday, 22 April, 2024
      FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024
      Business Book of the Year Award 2024: winners pick their favourites

      A look back to celebrate the 20th edition of the Financial Times and Schroders award

      Covers of the books selected by past winners of the award
    • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
      ReviewBusiness books
      Business books: what to read this month

      Getting familiar with AI, motorsports history, and how to thrive under pressure

    • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
      Working It14 min listen
      What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

      A growing number of people travel much further, but less often

    • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
      Future of work
      Commuting is back — but not as we knew it

      Pandemic predictions that the daily journey to work would die off are greatly exaggerated, according to FT analysis

      Montage showing commuters on a train, a double-decker bus and chart bars
    • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
      ReviewBusiness books
      Business books: what to read this month

      The power of place, women starting start-ups and the good, bad and ugly of management

    • Monday, 4 March, 2024
      InterviewThe CEO
      How Makiko Ono became one of Japan’s few female CEOs

      The Suntory Beverage and Food executive reflects on her setbacks and successes

      Makiko Ono, seated with her hands on her lap, wears a blue blazer and trousers
    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
      ReviewBusiness books
      Business books: what to read this month

      Corporate morality, the magic of dishabituating and tackling the tyranny of being constantly on the clock

      Montage image of book covers
    • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
      Working It15 min listen
      Why ‘sh*t-fixers’ make the best managers

      Good bosses eliminate obstacles, but introduce friction where necessary

    • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
      Working It19 min listen
      The return-to-office debate is heating up

      Some major companies are tightening rules about where employees work

    • Monday, 5 February, 2024
      Work WatchArtificial intelligence
      Can AI make brainstorming less mind-numbing?

      Generative tech is improving work — but employees need to be as smart as their new assistants

    • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
      ReviewBusiness books
      Business books: what to read this month

      US manufacturing woes, having a good time at work and thinking strategically with or without numbers

    • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
      Management
      ‘I work in a frustration factory’: how to make workplaces run better

      Stanford professors Huggy Rao and Bob Sutton share tips to remove bad ‘friction’ in companies

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    • Friday, 19 January, 2024
      ReviewEconomics books
      Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them — a plea for radical change

      Colin Mayer advocates the power of business — but calls out what is wrong, and how profit could benefit people and the planet

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    • Friday, 12 January, 2024
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      The Stoke-run gambling empire has made Denise Coates one of the world’s best-paid bosses

      A montage of Denise Coates and the logo of Best365 in the background
    • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
      Working It21 min listen
      What will work look like in 2024?

      Artificial intelligence and a US election will shake up the office

    • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
      Behind the Money podcast31 min listen
      Author Amy Edmondson on ‘intelligent failure’

      Hear from the winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year

    • Friday, 15 December, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Apple workers deserve iDorms as good as the technology

      Great industrialists once sought to combine improved productivity with new model towns

    • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
      FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024
      FT book award winner Amy Edmondson: Fail fast, fail often-mantras are ‘sloppy’

      Her book ‘Right Kind of Wrong’ aims to reframe failure and promote intelligent risk taking

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