People have been talking about increasing women in leadership for decades, yet little progress has been made over the past 10 years.

Auckland business Douglas Pharmaceuticals, founded in 1967 by managing director Sir Graeme Douglas, is one of the fastest-growing pharmaceutical development and manufacturing companies in the Pacific area.

The struggle to enter the property market for the first time has been a hot topic, from property availability to lending criteria.

Let's start by acknowledging that New Zealand struggles to earn a First World living.

New Zealand fast food operator BurgerFuel has cut the ribbon on what it claims is the world's first gourmet burger drive-through.

This week, dozens of people from the international oil industry are in the capital for a conference.

We all know change is a constant in the business world and companies going through transformations have become more the norm.

Employment courts are looking at company redundancy decisions to check that newly created jobs are not the same as the ones being axed and that there is a solid business case for cutting staff numbers.

When people meet for the first time, the conversation often touches on what they do for a living. Responses to the question "what do you do?" can vary widely, from detailed narratives of work tasks to a one-word job title.

Continuing professional development is a must for anyone who wants to get ahead in a world where everything from plumbing to brain surgery is changing at a pace.

New Zealand has one of the highest job turnover rates but experts say this shows people are willing to take job risks in a recovering economy.

The kindest view you could have of the emissions trading scheme, what's left of it, is that it is a brutally pruned seedling barely surviving in frozen ground.

Many bigger companies have launched graduate programmes as a way to attract the best and brightest straight out of university and nurture them into the culture of the company.

The economy may have contracted in the June quarter, as the effects of the summer drought hit home, economists say.

President Francois Hollande denied he was returning France to the age of state interventionism as he launched 34 projects.

Self-employment can give people more control and a new challenge, say Tracy Rowsell and Craig Gower.

With business confidence at a three-year high and demand for construction workers soaring, there may never have been a better time to get into a trade.

Last year, 70% of the approximately 34,000 NZ employees whose organisations took part in Kenexa Best Workplaces 2012 agreed that their organisation is a fun place to work.