Does the subtle hint of coffee make you more likely to buy a cup? Does the aroma of piña colada cause parents to linger in toy shops? Christopher White gets a sniff of the companies using scents to sell

Business troubleshooters, aka company doctors,will be heading back to school if Christine Elliott gets her way. As chief executive of the Institute for Turnaround, Elliott is leading a plan to teach new recruits key skills needed to guide a business through tough times.

The worse the economy gets, the more popular business degrees become. By Richard Northedge

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The UK economy seems to be in a period of very slow growth or possibly even stagnation. At the same time, the Government is repeatedly reminding us that smaller businesses will be the engines of growth and job creation in the recovery.

Where's she come from, then?

As Ireland's institutions crumbled, writers and artists kept their good name &ndash; and are now courted by the state.

Selecting the right business Masters course isn&rsquo;t as simple as you think, warns Helena Pozniak

Martin Thompson on why business schools are literally reshaping their classrooms

In the years since Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for her debut novel, The God of Small Things, she has become the anti-globalisation mascot in India and abroad with her strident opposition of the Indian state, free market economics, the war on terror, and much else. Her prose is vivid and sometimes poetic: witty wordplay interspersed with biting satire that riles India's middle class, the wealthy, and the elite.

The stories I have been told are of secret grief and hidden angst bursting out in an extraordinary way. But the silence is at last being broken, the unsayable said

MBAs in Islamic finance are a good investment in the current economic climate, says Widget Finn

Enjoy Nyenrode&rsquo;s anniversary celebrations by gaining a Masters scholarship, says Russ Thorne