What virgins and carbon scrubbers have in common is Richard Branson.  Here are a select few articles about Richard Branson in the last week and what you can learn from them.

The case study is very interesting and you’ll learn alot about business.  The carbon scrubber’s article is a good step toward getting carbon dioxide out of the air.  Richard Branson is helping a lot sponsoring this $25 million contest.  Virgin Radio was sold and the new owners don’t get the name Virgin, just the radio station.  Branson’s brand name of Virgin is so special that it is never for sale, an important lesson.

And my much loved airlines Silverjet went out of business.  Nan and I flew on them last year to London.  They were fantastic.  Fantastic service, great boarding lounge and business class seating on the entire jet.  Traveling business class was divine.  Richard Branson thinks business-only airlines are not viable.  With Silverjet and a few others going out of business maybe Richard Branson is correct.  I hope not, we have tickets on another business-class only airline Le Avion to Paris in 20 days.

Richard Branson : Virgin Group of Companies Case Study
By Antonio Jr Fabe
Business case study of the Virgin Group of Companies, which are being managed and owned by Richard Branson.

Carbon scrubber’ breakthrough
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
Last year Richard Branson and Al Gore offered $25 million for any invention that can remove ‘significant’ amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. …

Farewell Virgin Radio, hello…. what exactly?
guardian.co.uk - UK
Except not for much longer, after the national music station was bought by the Times of India Group and Richard Branson took his Virgin brand back. …

And another one gone: Silverjet ceases operations
… and oil prices continuing to rise, surely only die-hard risk takers will be willing to invest in a business-class-only airline right now. Is it time to say Sir Richard Branson called it right on business-only airlines?