Category Archives: Business Today

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Matthias Hunkeler, Prime Your State

January 29, 2018Douglas MacKevett

Matthias Hunkeler is an entrepreneur and founder of Prime Your State, a Los-Angeles-based company devoted to giving people the tools they need to regulate their personal energy and improve their performance. In today’s interview, we talk about his journey … read more

Tawnya Means, Online Learning

December 19, 2017Douglas MacKevett

“Learning is about lighting that fire”, says Dr Tawnya Means, an educational specialist who has years of experience in online teaching and learning. In this interview, she talks about how online learning can add to the educational experience by increasing … read more

Jan-Erik Baars, Leading Design

November 18, 2017Douglas MacKevett

Jan-Erik has design in his blood. From his early days, he was drawn to graphic design and did sketches of favorite cartoons. This passion led him to study industrial design in Germany and landed him an internship at Philips Design.… read more

Kevin Kuhn, Jaywalker Digital

October 30, 2017Douglas MacKevett

Kevin Kuhn is a graduate of the Master’s Program in Online Business Management from the Lucerne School of Business and helped found Jaywalker Digital in 2015. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on trends in data science such … read more

Galyna Pidpruzhnykova, Exposure Hackathon

July 13, 2017Douglas MacKevett

In this interview, Florian Lussi talks to Galyna Pidpruzhnykova about Exposure Hackathon, an organization dedicated to making science accessible to lay audiences through film. In her own work, Galyna is a PhD student at the École polytechnique fédérale… read more

Thomas Ramseier, miniSchoggi

April 26, 2017Douglas MacKevett

In this interview, Thomas talks about his experience in the chocolate business in Switzerland. His start-up, miniSchoggi, is a great example of bootstrapping: In the beginning, Thomas and his partner Rebecca filled custom-made praline orders placed online by… read more

Anja Wicki, Comics Illustrator

March 28, 2017Douglas MacKevett

Anja Wicki is an illustrator whose main passion is comics – a current exhibition of hers can be seen at Fumetto here in Lucerne. In this interview, she talks about her current work the Meaning of Life, a… read more

Regula Meng, Sustainability Professional

February 22, 2017Douglas MacKevett

In today’s interview, Regula Meng, recent graduate of the London School of Economics, discusses the insights she has gained working in sustainability. With a MSc degree in Global Politics, she has covered a variety policy issues such as business… read more

Maria Sägesser, Grand Tour of Switzerland

January 26, 2017Douglas MacKevett

UPDATE March 08, 2017: Maria and the Grand Tour of Switzerland won the Marketing Trophy 2017 for the Grand Tour – read about it on the Swiss Marketing Forum (in German)! In this interview, Maria Sägesser, Director of Operations … read more

Nikolaj Staub, Cafe Tacuba

November 30, 2016Douglas MacKevett

Nikolaj Staub is co-founder of the specialty coffee start-up, Café Tacuba, in Lucerne. In today’s interview he talks about the origins of the company and the economics of the coffee industry. Traditionally, a bag of coffee may sell for around… read more

Nicolas Hirschi – Startup Fidesso

November 8, 2016Douglas MacKevett

Today we talk with Nicolas Hirschi, who is co-founder of Fidesso, an innovative start-up in the real estate industry. In this podcast, Nicolas explains the idea of his startup and shares a mindset on easily finding ideas for a… read more

Simon Marti on Holacracy

October 12, 2016Douglas MacKevett

Today’s interview is with Simon Marti, founder of @ctivAsyl and active promoter of holacracy. Never heard of it? This podcast will offer you insights into why separating “roles and souls”, as Brian Robertson puts it, just might be the way… read more

Mobile Motion Film Festival

September 26, 2016Douglas MacKevett

Interview with Andrea Holle, Founder and Director Andrea Holle is Founder and Director of the Mobile Motion Film Festival, or MoMo, in Zurich. This one-of-a-kind film event offers a platform which, as the website says, “provides a level playing field… read more

Multilinguality and/or English as lingua franca?

December 27, 2013rabplanalp

In an interesting recent article in Babilonia (02/2013) – written by Georges Lüdi, a professor emeritus of linguistics of Romance languages from the University of Basel – the author argues that the dominance of English in Swiss workplaces is, though… read more

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