The Finance Minister stressed this country was a good place to do business.

Business needs to remember that the economy is nowhere near as bad as it was in 2008.

COMMENT: It's early days and the Government playing a long game on economic growth.

Will Prime Minister Winston Peters win the hearts of business leaders - or break them?

PM delivers post-Budget message to business.

Women and diversity was celebrated at Global Women's International Women's Day event.

Ross Taylor the CEO of Fletcher Building chats with Fran O’Sullivan.

PwC Herald Talk explains Internet of Things

Markets have proven resilient around the world even when election results are unexpected.

Is it time for a major campaign to sell New Zealand as an investment destination?

Top Maori businesses and business leaders are being encouraged to enter a prestigious annual award.

Mavis Mullins has risen to prominence from early roots in Paewai shearing firm.

NZ Herald Business Leader of the Year has pulled off one of the big deals of the decade and is a petrol retailer determined to fight climate change

Aviva group chief executive Mark Wilson talks the best values to bring to business.

We talk to Andy Routley on his personal achievements and challenges DB Breweries have to overcome.

It takes some guts to make the tough decisions, like downsizing the company.

The chief executive of Silver Fern Farms has steered the company through a capital-raising process that ultimately resulted in China's Shanghai Maling Aquarius taking a 50 per cent stake.

Spark chief executive Simon Moutter has taken on one of the biggest company transformations in New Zealand business, and if its latest company result is anything to go by, shareholders believe he is succeeding.

Ngarimu Alan Huiroa Blair of Ngati Whatua appears to have been predestined to be a leader.

Staying on the straight path in all aspects of life is the kind of advice people hear growing up.

Finalists for the 2015 CIO Awards have been named, with leaders from the ICT and business sectors being celebrated.

An excellent communicator albeit with a quietly confident manner, highly successful but without any arrogance, an affinity with those moving into quiet retirement but with a love of hard-rocking Shihad - Ryman Healthcare boss Simon Challies.

Spark Telecommunications company Spark under the strong leadership of Simon Moutter has this year reclaimed the top spot as the most valuable company on the NZX.

Ebos GroupTurnover at medical consumable and pharmaceutical products company Ebos Group has grown from around $8 million to $6 billion in the 27 years since Mark Waller became CEO.

Mike Bennetts proved he was prepared to take a punt getting rid of the century-old Shell brand and renaming it Z Energy in 2011.

While retail has been struggling, Briscoe Group has been bucking the trend, with the group expected to "easily exceed" its 2013 annual profit of....

Health software company Orion Health has come a long way since it was set up in 1993 by chief executive Ian McCrae with just four staff.

How would you like interest rates a quarter or half a percentage point higher than they are?

Today we count down to the announcement of the Herald Business Leader of the Year. Here are the first of this year’s nominees. The winner will be named on Saturday.