siemens

The company's corporate headquarters in Munich. The spin-off is part of a broader strategy to break up the conglomerate into smaller and more manageable businesses

Siemens to spin off struggling gas and power business

German conglomerate Siemens will split its core smart infrastructure and digital businesses from its traditional power arm in a bid to boost the latter’s profits

Joe Kaeser | Siemens

Joe Kaeser is unquestionably the CEO to rebuild Siemens. After 33 years at the company, he has finally reached the summit and is ready to make it his dominion

Peter Löscher | Siemens

Siemens recently sacked CEO lost his job despite steering the company away from the scandals of the past

Marco Tronchetti Provera

When the recession of the late 1980s impacted badly on Pirelli they needed someone who could make tough decisions, and despite the fact they did not know it yet, that man was Marco Tronchetti Provera

Mika Vehviläinen

Anybody taking on the job of running a government-owned airline these days can expect turbulence. But when it’s an airline in trouble like national flag-carrier Finnair, there’s always the risk of coming down in flames.

Klaus Kleinfeld

In 2008 the price of aluminium plummeted from over $3,000 per tonne to below $1,500 per tonne, causing the stock price of Alcoa – one of the largest aluminium producers in the world to head in the same the direction. The outlook was grim. But fortunately for Alcoa, the firm had just signed up a […]

Awards Supplement 2024

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