Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer

Cookies on FT Sites

We use cookies and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to analyse how our Sites are used.

Accept cookies
Manage cookies
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign InmyFT
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Geert Wilders faces early setback in Dutch coalition talks
    • Argentina’s Javier Milei backs away from dollarisation as central bank pick rejects role
    • Israeli intelligence ‘dismissed’ detailed warning of Hamas raid
    • Hamas releases 24 hostages as Israel truce takes hold
    • Cathay Pacific offers cheap flights to help Hong Kong’s ‘patriots only’ vote
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    Most Read
    • Companies
      Sections
      • Companies Home
      • Energy
      • Financials
      • Health
      • Industrials
      • Media
      • Professional Services
      • Retail & Consumer
      • Tech Sector
      • Telecoms
      • Transport
      Most Read
      • KPMG extends pay freeze to 12,000 UK staff
      • Tesla strikes in Sweden are ‘insane’, says Elon Musk
      • How BP’s ‘Sun King’ court enabled the rise and fall of Bernard Looney
      • Jeff Zucker hits out at rival Telegraph bidders for ‘slinging mud’
      • Electric vehicle failures offer lessons for the next boom
    • Tech
    • Markets
      Sections
      • Markets Home
      • Alphaville
      • Markets Data
      • Cryptofinance
      • Capital Markets
      • Commodities
      • Currencies
      • Equities
      • Fund Management
      • Wealth Management
      • Trading
      • Moral Money
      • ETF Hub
      Most Read
      • Argentina’s Javier Milei backs away from dollarisation as central bank pick rejects role
      • News updates from November 24: Hamas releases hostages as Israel truce begins, Netherlands’ VVD party deals blow to Geert Wilders’ government hopes
      • How BP’s ‘Sun King’ court enabled the rise and fall of Bernard Looney
      • Investors dump dollar in bet that US rates have peaked
      • Montenegro court clears crypto chief Do Kwon for extradition
    • Climate
    • Opinion
      Sections
      • Opinion Home
      • Columnists
      • The FT View
      • Lex
      • Obituaries
      • Letters
      Most Read
      • OpenAI has just fused its corporate ‘kill switch’
      • Europe’s problem? It’s too attractive
      • Slaying the worklessness monster is a thankless but crucial task
      • Fear not — equity is far from cancelled
      • Crypto power struggle enters new stage with Binance settlement
    • Work & Careers
      Sections
      • Work & Careers Home
      • Business School Rankings
      • Business Education
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Recruitment
      • Business Books
      • Business Travel
      • Working It
      Most Read
      • Business Books: What to read this month
      • Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier: ‘The EU is not the same one the UK left’
      • Start-ups challenge culture of the Japanese salaryman
      • In search of chief executives who never grow ‘old’
      • The inescapable tyranny of the bad boss
    • Life & Arts
      Sections
      • Life & Arts Home
      • Arts
      • Books
      • Food & Drink
      • FT Magazine
      • House & Home
      • Style
      • Travel
      • FT Globetrotter
      Most Read
      • Tom Hanks: ‘I was a pretty lucky guy’
      • Napoleon and the mythmakers
      • Why the breakdown of the 9-to-5 job is making us lonelier
      • Leon Black’s downfall confounds the legacy of #MeToo on Wall Street
      • Could younger homebuyers turn Belgravia from staid to ‘buzzy’?
    • HTSI
    MenuSearch
    • Home
    • World
    • US
    • Companies
    • Tech
    • Markets
    • Climate
    • Opinion
    • Work & Careers
    • Life & Arts
    • HTSI
    Financial Times
    SubscribeSign In

    Andrew Hill

    Senior business writer

    Andrew Hill is senior business writer at the FT and consulting editor, FT Live. He is a former management editor, City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor. He is the author of ‘Leadership in the Headlines’ (2016), a collection of his columns, and ‘Ruskinland’ (2019), about the enduring influence of Victorian thinker John Ruskin. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.

    Andrew was named Business Commentator of the Year at the 2016 Comment Awards and Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.

    Email Andrew Hill @andrewtghill  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

    Add to myFT Digest

    Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox

    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      The best books of the week
      How to embrace misfires, setbacks and flops

      Two books on sensible risk-taking urge innovators to learn from ‘intelligent failures’

    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Leadership
      In search of chief executives who never grow ‘old’

      Competence and capability are the best ways to assess leaders whatever their age

      Images of Janet Truncale and Andy Baldwin against a blue background with the yellow EY logo across it
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Best books of 2023 — Business

      Andrew Hill selects his must-read titles

    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Working It podcast18 min listen
      How Scandinavia cracked the productivity puzzle

      Lessons from our most (and least) productive peers

    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023
      Six titles make the 2023 shortlist

      Judges of the £30,000 prize pick six titles that capture the biggest personalities and themes of corporate life

      FT montage of this year’s book covers
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Corporate governance
      Boards tighten the rules on executives’ office romances

      BP boss Bernard Looney is not the first chief to be felled for failing adequately to disclose liaisons with staff

      Bernard Looney
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Flexible working
      Employers and staff seek truce on office working

      While some companies are tightening mandates on working from home, more are moving to flexible models

      Illustration of managers and home workers having a tug of war with a computer mouse cable
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      InterviewThe CEO
      Booking.com’s Glenn Fogel: ‘Every day we have to fight for customers’

      Online travel group boss on his AI-driven effort to take the friction out of holiday planning

      Glenn Fogel Booking Holdings’ chief executive
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023
      Business Book of the Year 2023 — the longlist

      Chosen titles explore themes including AI breakthroughs and the rise and fall of billionaires

      FT montage of the covers of this year’s longlisted entries
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023
      Schroders sponsors the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award

      Global asset manager follows Goldman Sachs and McKinsey as it signs three-year partnership

    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      Working It podcast17 min listen
      Best of: Why we love to hate the middle manager

      They’re often maligned. But is their role more important than ever?

    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      Why productivity is so weak at UK companies

      Longstanding problems of low investment and skills gaps exacerbated by overconfidence and lack of management time

    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      The Case for Good Jobs — why it pays to offer employees meaningful work

      Business leaders would do well to ditch conventional wisdom on cost-cutting and adopt Zeynep Ton’s manifesto instead

      The words ‘Empower, sustain, protect, adapt, partner’ written in marker pen on a window
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      UK labour productivity
      UK lags behind G7 peers on productivity due to ‘complacency’

      Stark gap between confidence of British companies and their capabilities, survey of business leaders finds

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Behavioural economics
      Harvard fraud claims fuel doubts over science of behaviour

      Field that includes ‘nudge’ theory has gained broad traction within businesses but some findings are contested

      Francesca Gino
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      Business education
      Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty

      Francesca Gino on administrative leave at Harvard Business School after allegations of fraudulent data use

      Francesca Gino is one of Harvard Business School’s best-known behavioural scientists
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Summer Books 2023
      Best summer books of 2023: Business

      Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads

    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023
      Deadline nears for FT’s annual book prize

      The search for 2023’s ‘most compelling and enjoyable’ business title is under way

      Chris Miller, who won last year’s FT Business Book of the Year Award for Chip War, his account of the global battle for semiconductor supremacy
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      Wonder Boy — the rapid rise and tragic fall of Tony Hsieh

      How the wunderkind behind shoe etailer Zappos set a goal of happiness rather than riches but ended his life in squalor and delusion

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Cyber Security
      ‘Attackers only have to get it right once’: how cyber security burst into the boardroom

      Senior executives are starting to realise that potential data breaches and other digital threats are strategic issues

      Montage of images of a CEO standing in a boardroom with his back to the camera looking at a background of light and data points
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      FT business books: what to read this month

      How to innovate without displacing industries and ways to supercharge your work life

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Corporate culture
      How to spot corporate rot

      CBI scandal has prompted business leaders to re-examine their culture and treatment of staff

      Montage of images. A stressed woman in business suit sits at a desk holding her head in her hand while two people behind look like they are talking about her
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Instant InsightDominic Raab
      Having a ‘threshold’ for bullying is out of date

      Bosses don’t have to swear and shout to undermine or intimidate their staff

      Dominic Raab: while the hardcore school of management is enjoying a resurgence, the reality is that a fearful workforce is often an underperforming workforce
    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      InterviewLeadership
      Mohammed Alardhi: the fighter pilot on taking the controls at Investcorp

      Executive chair of the Bahrain-based investment manager has overseen a period of rapid expansion

      Mohammed Alardhi: ‘The pushing of the envelope — that’s still what I try to do’
    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      FT business books: what to read this month

      From learning to recognise the sources of ‘microstress’ to cultivating your networks for the long haul

      The book covers for Think Bigger, The Microstress Effect and Your Invisible Network
    Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

    Join us at an FT Live event

    Discover unmissable flagship events and members only communities to expand your thinking and elevate your career

    FT Live
    Business Book of the Year Award 2023
    The search for the best business book is underway
    Monday, 4 DecemberBracken House, Friday Street, London, UK
    FT Live
    FT Women in Business Summit Europe
    Uncovering the business benefits of inclusive leadership
    Tuesday, 11 June 2024London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, Grosvenor Square, London, UK
    Explore all events

    Useful links

    Support

    View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

    Legal & Privacy

    Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

    Services

    Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

    Tools

    PortfolioToday’s Newspaper (FT Digital Edition)Alerts HubBusiness School RankingsEnterprise ToolsNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

    Community & Events

    FT CommunityFT Live EventsFT ForumsFT Board DirectorBoard Director Programme

    More from the FT Group

    Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2023. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
    The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
    Financial Times

    International Edition

    Subscribe for full access
    • Switch to UK Edition

    Top sections

    • Home
    • World
      • Israel-Hamas war
      • Global Economy
      • UK
      • US
      • China
      • Africa
      • Asia Pacific
      • Emerging Markets
      • Europe
      • War in Ukraine
      • Americas
      • Middle East & North Africa
    • US
      • US Economy
      • US Companies
      • US Politics & Policy
    • Companies
      • Energy
      • Financials
      • Health
      • Industrials
      • Media
      • Professional Services
      • Retail & Consumer
      • Tech Sector
      • Telecoms
      • Transport
    • Tech
      • Artificial intelligence
      • Semiconductors
      • Cyber Security
      • Social Media
    • Markets
      • Alphaville
      • Markets Data
      • Cryptofinance
      • Capital Markets
      • Commodities
      • Currencies
      • Equities
      • Fund Management
      • Wealth Management
      • Trading
      • Moral Money
      • ETF Hub
    • Climate
    • Opinion
      • Columnists
      • The FT View
      • Lex
      • Obituaries
      • Letters
    • Work & Careers
      • Business School Rankings
      • Business Education
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Recruitment
      • Business Books
      • Business Travel
      • Working It
    • Life & Arts
      • Arts
      • Books
      • Food & Drink
      • FT Magazine
      • House & Home
      • Style
      • Travel
      • FT Globetrotter
    • Personal Finance
      • Property & Mortgages
      • Investments
      • Pensions
      • Tax
      • Banking & Savings
      • Advice & Comment
      • Next Act
    • HTSI
    • Special Reports

    FT recommends

    • Lex
    • Alphaville
    • Lunch with the FT
    • FT Globetrotter
    • #techAsia
    • Moral Money
    • Visual and data journalism
    • Newsletters
    • Video
    • Podcasts
    • News feed
    • FT Live Events
    • FT Forums
    • Board Director Programme
    • myFT
    • Portfolio
    • Today’s Newspaper (FT Digital Edition)
    • Crossword
    • Our Apps
    • Help Centre
    • Subscribe
    • Sign In