Foreign affairs

Whether you fancy teaching English in Japan, IT consulting in Atlanta or transferring your current job to the firm’s office overseas, the right research and planning will help put the the world at your feet

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Interviews – Technology – Larry Levy

Software entrepreneur Larry Levy founded Protégé to help North American technology start-ups expand into Europe. Since 1996, Protégé has successfully launched 22 US companies in Europe, providing senior management for the initial growth phase before handing control back to the parent company in return for an equity stake. Levy began his business career selling fake

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Interviews – Technology – Guy Mallison

Guy Mallison, 26, is the commercial director of Rools.com, the e-commerce website aimed at teenagers co-founded with colleague Adam Hamdy. Having left university without knowing what he wanted to do Mallison tells us how he became a dotcom entrepreneur. He and Handy are charting the company’s progress in a weekly column in the Guardian newspaper

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Liar’s Poker

If someone had tried to sell me the true-life story of a ‘Big Swinging Dick’ I’d have nodded politely while I reached for the mace. If they’d then explained that this particular B.S.D. was a bond salesman on Wall Street, I’d have been far less scared but no more interested. Luckily a friend insisted I

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Steve Redgrave: Casting off

International rowing won’t be the same without Steve Redgrave – five-times Olympic gold medallist and national hero. But will Redgrave be the same without rowing? The commitment demanded by the sport is no less than a lifestyle – on the water seven days a week, 49 weeks a year. When that is gone, what remains?

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Where did it all go wrong? From military prodigy to exile and death in St Helena. But what a sparkling career you had in between. Perhaps you should have made the switch from fighting to banking while you had the chance, especially since you were good at maths.

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