Andrew Hill



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Full name: Andrew Hill

Area of interest: Financial, business, corporate

Journals/Organisation: Financial Times

Email: [mailto:andrew.hill@ft.com andrew.hill@ft.com]

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Website: http://www.ft.com/management/andrew-hill

Blog: http://blogs.ft.com/businessblog

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Networks: http://twitter.com/andrewtghill | https://twitter.com/ftbusinessblog



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Education: Trinity College, Cambridge: English

Career: Joined FT as UK companies reporter, 1988, has been Brussels correspondent, Milan correspondent, Foreign News Editor and Deputy Foreign Editor; FT New York Bureau Chief, 1999/2003, US Business Editor and member of the paper's US editorial board; previously comment & analysis editor, responsible for opionion and features and became assistant editor, August 2003. Lombard editor until end 2010

Current position/role: Financial Times - Associate Editor and management editor


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Viewpoints/Insight: Investigated Enron's collapse as well as other US corporate scandals; had a major role in co-ordinating coverage/writing about US 9/11 attacks

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Articles: 2012

 * The BBC and bad public sector management - High pay at public bodies stinks – they have taken the worst practices of the private sector - 21st December
 * Year-end reporting: a tyranny of targets - Companies must not let the pressure of quarterly figures lead them into malpractice - 18th December


 * Flexiworkers are heroes, not slackers - The test will be in winter, when the homeworker’s heating switches off - 4th August
 * Perils of declaring your next revolution - The temptation to reveal a prototype early is rising - 1st August
 * Forced ranking is a relic of an HR tool - Disadvantages of appraisal system far outweigh the benefits, writes Andrew Hill - 17th July
 * Corporate culture: Lofty aspirations - It may not be possible to change the behaviour of scandal-hit sectors - 16th July
 * A gold medal for management - Putting on an Olympic Games requires skills that can be also useful for executives - 12th July
 * Time to get past the stigma of offshoring - Knee-jerk reactions to outsourcing illustrate an irrational fear of a useful tool - 10th July
 * The buck stops both at chairs and chiefs - Two elements of Marcus Agius’s statement of resignation as Barclays chairman strike me as strange - 2nd July 2012
 * The List: Five prizes for changing the world - From spacecraft and cannery to finding the secret of eternal life, awards can be as unusual as the achievements - 30th June
 * Customers can work magic on your staff - Closer engagement improves systems and motivates staff - 26th June
 * Reputation depends on depth of relations - How did the bosses of the England and Wales Cricket Board fall for Allen Stanford? - 19th June
 * Riding the wave to a new type of model - The crisis has given impetus to a corporate form that businesses can use to enshrine social goals alongside profit - 12th June
 * Five steps to career appraisal perfection - The percption of reviews hampers the process - 5th June
 * Autonomy is an odd fit for big business - Takeover challenge is to allow independence - 29th May
 * Recipe for the secret sauce of Facebook - Smooth internal co-ordination is key to unblocking management plumbing] - 22nd May
 * A set-to as old as the Old Testament - BrewDog v Diageo: a PR battle in the old tradition - 15th May
 * Look into the future before it is too late - Crucial to embed an awareness of long-term risks and opportunities - 8th May
 * How to conform to creative deviance - Staff working in direct breach of managerial edicts sometimes achieve great imaginative leaps - 1st May
 * Citizenship matters but adaptability is key - Nationality is still a proxy for cultural fitness, and not just for jobs that set it as a condition - 24th April
 * A bit of selfishness is all to the social good - The caricature of global capitalism puts sandalled do-gooders and corporate suits at opposite ends of the spectrum - 10th April
 * A victim of its own success - Most businesses have a breeze running through them," says one person closely involved with Eastman Kodak for the past quarter-century, “but here, it was a monster hurricane” - 5th April
 * Snapshot of a humbled giant - When, one sunny weekend in July 2007, Eastman Kodak demolished Buildings 9 and 23... - 3rd April
 * We should stop trying to change the world - Given the essentially mundane nature of most jobs, few workers will ever live up to mission statements that urge them to “change the world” - 27th March
 * A family feud is not always a bad thing - Even if you have only half-heard of Gina Rinehart, you will know that she is a force to be reckoned with - 20th March
 * Experience trumps exams for strategists - Italians like to wear their qualifications where everyone can see them - 13th March
 * Big Pharma should learn from Hogwarts - Harry Potter and Viagra have more in common than you may imagine - 7th February
 * Bonuses of contention - The corporate pay culture is the focus of unprecedented fire - 4th February
 * More than two reasons against dual heads - I’ll say one thing for co-chief executives: two scapegoats are better than one - 30th January



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