One German business magazine treated its readers to a two-page tour of the 45-year-old's flat.
In a world where brainpower matters more and more, how does German business thrive?
German business sentiment rose to a seven-month high in January, the Ifo institute said on Friday.
The paper calls ceaselessly for greater transparency in share trading and more honest accounting by German business.
Numerous personalities from the German business community, the media, and the international sport and art scene, will participate.
But there has been plenty of skill, too, as our briefing on German business explains (see article).
On Europe, we note continuing signs of improvement, with German business optimism hitting its highest level in 15 years.
The Ifo Institute said its sentiment index of the German business climate fell to 100 in October from 101.4 in September.
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Co-determination, trade unions, supervisory boards and other inflexible features of German business life have already been put firmly on the sidelines.
On Friday, the German business-software company confirmed its full-year forecast, but business development in the first quarter fell short of analysts' expectations.
The aforementioned news overshadowed news that German business confidence increased in February.
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Last month, a group of German business leaders, including Veba's Mr Hartmann, began to draft a set of corporate standards for listed companies.
Second and in some ways more cheering, Kirch's difficulties - along with a number of other corporate crunches - indicate a sea-change in German business culture.
But the German business-confidence index in January was at its highest in over five years, whereas the French equivalent has been flat for three months in a row.
Labor hates the idea, German business won't fight for it, and Schroeder's attempt at tax simplification is even now being larded up like a bratwurst weeny at the margins.
Labor hates the idea, German business won't fight for it, and Schrder's attempt at tax simplification is even now being larded up like a bratwurst weeny at the margins.
Yet, at the same time, women represent a mere 6% of higher management in German business, 6% of top university professors, and less than 10% of senior civil-service jobs.
HTC's German business will not be affected by it.
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"If the British cannot support the trend towards more integration in Europe, we can nevertheless remain friends, but on a different basis, " the French former minister told the German business daily Handelsblatt.
European markets rose, with the Stoxx Europe 600 up 1.3% to recover most of the losses from the previous session, after data showed German business confidence increased much more than expected in February.
There was more weak European Union economic data released Friday, and it came from the strongest country in the EU. German business confidence showed a surprising drop in March after rising sharply in February.
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European markets were broadly higher, with the Stoxx Europe 600 up 1.3% to recover most of the losses from the previous session, after data showed German business confidence increased much more than expected in February.
The German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported over the weekend that Microdrones, a company based in the city of Siegen, Germany, has sold at least one of its flying surveillance robots to the search giant for testing.
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"The clearly political intent to fix a final and irreversible end-date for German nuclear energy with such unprecedented haste gives me increasing worry, " Hans-Peter Keitel, head of Germany's BDI business lobby, wrote in an open letter to German business leaders Monday.
Although German business looks robust, the country still suffers from many familiar ills (see our survey): an over-regulated labour market, an unreformed public sector (which staged its biggest strikes in 14 years this week), poor schools and universities, and an unresponsive health system.
For all its cosmopolitan ambitions, the governing elite of German business is still made up almost entirely of men in their 50s or 60s, mainly with an engineering background, whose formative experience was growing up in the post-1945 Wirtschaftswunder, where production was king and shareholders were all but invisible.
The German online business network was the first Web 2.0 company to go public in Europe in December of 2006.
Climbing to an early morning high of 1.2966 after an extremely positive German Ifo Business climate reading of 106.2, the euro has been getting pummeled ever since.
Rainer Gehnen, a Chinese business management consultant at the German-Chinese Business Association in Cologne, told the paper that China will remain strongly depended on the overall economic and financial developments in Europe and the United States.
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