Opinion
Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: Charity sector needs far more transparency
The charity sector appears to have made a solid recovery since the global financial crisis, which had a major impact on donations and investment returns.However, the Charities Register website, which is supposed to contain information on all 27,396 NZ registered charities, is poo...
Barrie Saunders: OPINION: TVNZ – RNZ merger another broadcasting train wreck?
Former broadcast journalist and TVNZ director between 2011 and 2017, Barrie Saunders, sees a foregone conclusion with unintended consequences in the proposed TVNZ-RNZ merger.The RNZ Concert programme train wreck is but a prelude to what is likely if the proposed RNZ-TVNZ merger g...
David Cohen: OPINION: Muddled orchestration in RNZ's Concert Radio pitch
Not many people bought the first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did went out and started a band. Or so the old line has it.Not that many people have been listening to Concert FM in recent times, either, but everyone who has seems to be making a beeline for the nearest...
Technology
Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: Hart hits the jackpot again while Watson flounders
It’s hard to believe but 20 years ago a major debate was whether Graeme Hart or Eric Watson would be New Zealand’s next business megastar.At the beginning of 2000, when Hart was 44 and Watson 40, they had both made their first $100 million and were in a mad rush to acquire furthe...
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