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    Network Formation And The Structure Of The Commercial World Wide Web

    September 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT

    In this paper the authors attempt to model the commercial World Wide Web as a directed graph emerging as the equilibrium of a game in which utility maximizing Web sites purchase (adver-tising)...

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    A Passion For Education

    July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    If one build it, they will come - so the mantra goes - and that's exactly what Ng Gim Choo did with the EtonHouse group of schools. And serendipity, as it turned out, would play a key role. After...

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    How LG Electronics Reinvented Itself In The US

    June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    It took three attempts in four years for Korean electronics giant LG Electronics (LGE) to launch its brand in the US market in 2002. Five years later, it became the top seller of refrigerators and...

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    Sustainable Practices: Engaging Consumers And Suppliers

    June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is one firm that knows very well that its environmental and economic impact extends well beyond its factory gates. This starts with the ingredients it needs for its...

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    Global Airline Traffic Back To Pre-Recession Levels But Risks Remain

    June 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    IATA expects airlines to post global profits of $2.5 billion in 2010, a major improvement compared with IATA's previous forecast released in March of a $2.8 billion loss. Bisignani attributes this...

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    Doing It The Chinese Way: Disney's Strategy For A Lucrative Ride In China

    June 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    As trite as the phrase 'think global, act local' may be, it nevertheless encapsulates The Walt Disney Company's approach to making a success of its business in China. To that end, producing...

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    Building By Design: How China Develops The Developing World

    June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Chinese contractors and design firms have become major players internationally. In construction, one of the world's most important industries at over 10 per cent of global GDP, China accounts for...

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    Transition To The Future: Mining And Mineral Processing In China

    June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    China's mining and mineral processing sector has for years been one of the most significant markets for the world's technology leaders. Increasingly, however, the tables are turning. Innovations...

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    Upstart: China's Emergence In Technology And Innovation

    June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    It can easily appear as if China can make anything. Yet it makes goods not only at low cost, but now also of high quality, and this constitutes a particularly Chinese brand of innovation that...

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    China's quiet confidence

    June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    China's premier, Wen Jiabao, has said that 2010 will be a very difficult year for the country's economy, yet in Q1 its performance was remarkable. China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 11.9...

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    China's Media Come Of Age Amid State Controls

    June 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    China's media are no longer an instrument of the state, says Hu Shuli, a Chinese journalist."I don't think the media in China now are still an instrument of the state. I think the media today are...

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    Businesses Increasingly Face Water Risks

    May 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    The world will face a 40 per cent shortfall in water supplies by 2030. The good news is that if one are smart, one can meet the challenge successfully. But this can only happen through...

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    Just A Pretty Face(Book)? Social Media Tries To Come Of Age

    May 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Emails are old hat; SMSs passes. Tweeting, blogging, and posting on "walls" are no longer the domain of the under-30s. They have become a staple of the way most people in the world communicate...

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    Leadership Today: Less Charisma, More Consensus

    December 22, 2009, 12:00am PST

    When people think of words to describe good leadership, 'charisma' usually comes somewhere near the top of the list. After all, all the good ideas in the world won't get anywhere if speaker aren't...

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    The Leadership Circle

    December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Leaders get the best out of followers and followers get the best out of leaders," says Manfred Kets De Vries, Clinical Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD. The connection between leaders...

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    Can Leadership Withstand The Ravages Of The Crisis?

    December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST

    The sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers and the fall of AIG have not just shaken the financial community to its core, which has sent reverberations worldwide, its leaders have also come under fire....

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    Taking Leadership Research Global

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    The objective of the paper was to promote rigorous and relevant research on leadership-broadly defined as influencing people to contribute willingly to the good of the collective, as well as...

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    Middle Managers Linchpin To Dynamic Team Leadership

    August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Although research suggests there's no 'one size fits all' approach to leadership, a fixed or generic notion of leadership still gets taught at all levels, to be used at all times, for all...

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    Leadership: A Chinese Puzzle

    November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT

    China's economy is booming, but one of the major challenges facing the country will be leadership - or the lack of it - in political or business spheres. INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Asian...

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    Putting Leaders On The Couch

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    When Professor Manfred Kets de Vries coaches leadership teams, he effectively puts them on the couch - treating them not so much as rational actors but as emotional ones. A clinical professor of...

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    The Global Business Leader

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    Leadership has nothing to do with titles. J. Frank Brown, the Dean of INSEAD, has met a lot of CEOs in his two-and-a-half decades in business and many of them are little more than LINOs - Leaders...

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    Building Global Brands In Asia

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    Look closely at the top 100 Global Brands, according to Interbrand and BusinessWeek, and one will see many European and North American favorites that have given great products or services over...

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    Advertising On The Web: How Content Affects The Buying And Selling Of Ad Links

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    The internet has become an important medium for doing business internationally. The opportunities are enormous, yet there are still many practical questions that managers of commercial websites...

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    A New World Order: The Rise Of China And The Decline Of The West

    December 19, 2009, 12:00am PST

    Author think that part of the present crisis actually, the origins of it lie in the inability of the United States any longer to be able to sustain and underwrite the international economic system...

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    On Adam Smith, Gordon Gecko And Controls On Self-Interest

    September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Maybe it's due to technology, maybe the global economy or maybe the revelations about corporate behaviour as one company after another, melting down and asking for taxpayer aid, laid bare the...

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    Unveiling Latin America's Economic Success

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    A lot of attention has been focused on the remarkable economic success of China, India and other Asian countries. So much so that the rise of Latin American companies as major players on the...

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    Living With Uncertainty

    October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    The authorities in the US and Europe have the right policies in place to tackle the financial crisis, but it will take time to restore confidence in the markets, according to speakers at the World...

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    We Should Heed The Lessons Of The Collapse Of The ?Golden Age?: A Personal View

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    It seemed like it was never going to end - the rise of the economy, the increased prosperity, the bull stock market. Forbes magazine said it would be 'recognized as a golden age of American...

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    'Great Wall' Stands In The Way Of China's Economic Ascent

    May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    "It's actually ironic that Western economies and policymakers probably know the lessons of the Great Depression and the need for fast policy action better than anyone else, but so far the only...

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    Re-Skilling Europe For The New Global Knowledge Economy

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    Europe today is suffering from a skills shortage, made even worse by the economic crisis. Over the past decade, many business leaders have stressed that Europe is simply not producing, attracting,...

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    Global Outlook: Big Spenders And Penny-Pinchers

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    In the US, extravagance is a normal way of life. In China, it is a sin. Such contrasting consumer psyche between the two economies needs to be evened out before a sustained recovery of the...

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    Economic Downturn ?Opens Doors? For Recycling Business Worn Again

    October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    One of the greatest challenges facing social business Worn Again is the widely-held public assumption that any product made from recycled materials must be cheaper than conventional merchandise on...

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    Family Values: Leading The Way Out Of The Downturn

    September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Family-owned businesses have been hit by the economic downturn like many others. But while they have suffered along with everyone else, they are able to leverage an inherent competitive advantage...

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    Debunking Myths About Entrepreneurs

    June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Successful entrepreneurs are a rare breed because they face a myriad of obstacles. But one fundamental flaw in the system makes it even harder for entrepreneurs to realise their dream....

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    Think Big, Start Small And Move Fast

    June 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    One of the lessons the author learned from First Tuesday was that many entrepreneurs wanted to bypass venture capitalists. Often, the most attractive investors were other, successful...

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    Porsche Also Makes Great Cars, Remember?

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    The global automobile industry is in a shambles, with a share in Ford Motor Company selling for less than a Starbucks latte, and GM and Chrysler fighting for their survival. Somewhere in all this...

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    Family Conflict: Trial By Jury

    May 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    In the paper, 'Court orders liquidation for city warehouse firm' the newspaper reported that a Ramsey County District Court judge had ruled that Space Center Inc should be placed in receivership...

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    Call Me Anything Except Junior

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    There is a powerful scene in the film that captures the emotional challenges that next generation family members, especially eldest sons, face under the shadow of their powerful and successful...

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    Creative Entrepreneurs Can Survive The Crisis

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    Creative entrepreneurs can weather the current global economic crisis better than traditional businesses, says the author. "It's not the creative entrepreneurs but it's the large companies that...

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    Explaining Households' Investment Behavior

    March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Building on a framework of heterogeneous uncertainty across the population, this paper provides a unified theoretical explanation for several salient features of household investment behavior:...

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