Year: 2015
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Add “to Volkswagen” to the business lexicon
As the Volkswagen emissions-testing-fiddling scandal rolls on – and is getting much worse for the beleaguered German firm – speculation grows that other car makers are also gaming the system. If the testing methods used in countries around the world…
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Google superlatives
Opening my Chrome browser this morning presented a new Google doodle highlighting Google’s 17th birthday. Many happy returns, Google! Google is a company that seems to have been here for almost ever, not just seventeen years. It’s part of the…
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Can a tarnished VW emerge successfully from #dieselgate?
The global #dieselgate crisis engulfing German car maker Volkswagen may well produce significant and disruptive change in the governance and regulation of the auto industry and publicly-listed companies in that industry (likelier in Germany than anywhere else, I’d say), although…