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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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The New Deal At The Top
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Most companies have managers reporting directly to the CEO on a one-to-one basis, with responsibility for their units or regions," says Yves Doz, who holds the Timken chair in Global Technology...
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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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Managing New Product Development An Evolutionary Framework
September 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a theoretical framework that integrates research from various disciplines on different areas of New Product Development (NPD) in a common context. NPD...
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CEO Contract Horizon And Investment
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the relation between contract horizon and investment using a new, hand-collected dataset of 3,717 US CEO employment contracts. It finds that contract horizon predicts (ex post)...
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Endogenous Overconfidence In Managerial Forecasts
March 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine whether attribution bias that leads managers who have experienced short-terni forecasting success to become overconfident in their ability to forecast future earnings....
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Estimating Perceptions Of Discrimination: Experimental Economics In Schools
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors put forward a new experimental economics design with monetary incentives to estimate people's perceptions of discrimination in a variety of contexts. They apply the design to estimate...
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Understanding The Role Of Language In Management Forecast Press Releases
January 31, 2011, 12:00am PST
Using a sample of 2,254 voluntarily-provided "Unbundled" management earnings forecast press releases; the authors investigate the role of linguistic sentiment and linguistic certainty in pricing....
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Identity Workspaces For Leadership Development
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
Profound changes in individuals' relationship with their employers and expectations for their work lives have generated an increasing demand for leadership development, while at the same time...
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Partnering With Competitors - Effects Of Alliances On Airline Entry And Capacity Decisions
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
The formation of an airline alliance is one of the most important and difficult decisions that has to be made by airline management. In particular, domestic airline alliances have always caused...
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Emotional Intelligence And Leadership Effectiveness: The Mediating Influence Of Collaborative Behaviors
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Leadership effectiveness can be divided into two broad categories that include getting along behaviors (teamwork and empowerment of others) and/or getting ahead behaviors (visioning. energizing....
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The Impact Of New Product Introduction On Plant Productivity In The North American Automotive Industry
January 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
Using 7 years of plant-level data for the North-American automotive industry, the authors empirically study productivity losses during new product launches. Using propensity scoring, they estimate...
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Leadership And Judgment: Why Leaders Know More Than They Think
January 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
The author woke up early one morning in the summer of 2010. This was noteworthy; left to myself, the author would have woken up a few hours later, his head would have been happier and his stomach...
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Punishing High-status Deviants: The Role Of Transgression Severity And Betrayal
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Evaluations of workplace deviant behavior are often biased by the personal characteristics of both deviants and sanctioners. In this paper, the authors focus on the characteristics of deviants and...
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Content Contributor Management And Network Effects In A UGC Environment
January 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
The success of any User-Generated Content (UGC) website depends crucially on its asset of content contributors. How firms should invest in the acquisition and retention of content contributors...
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When Does The Past Repeat Itself? The Interplay Of Behavior-Prediction Personal And Norms
January 20, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors find that behavior prediction strengthens behavior repetition, making people more likely to do what they normally do, when personal norms regarding engaging in a...
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The Languages Of Strategic Agility: Trapped In Your Jargon Or Lost In Translation?
January 20, 2011, 12:00am PST
At the heart of strategy lie streams, or sequences, of decisions and resource commitments. Such decisions include major strategic moves like internationalization and new market entries or...
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Advance Selling When Consumers Regret
January 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors characterize the effect of anticipated regret on consumer decisions, firm profits and policies, in an advance selling context where buyers have uncertain valuations. Advance purchases...
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Finding And Implementing Energy Efficiency Projects In Industrial Facilities
August 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the challenges of finding and implementing profitable Energy Efficiency (EE) projects, a critical foundation for sustainable operations. The authors focus on manufacturing...
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Why Social Media Are "Absolutely Crucial" To Businesses
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Social media are "A crucial way for consumers to make a decision before purchasing. They'll do searching and they'll often end up on blog sites or forums. And for somebody in a...
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Outsourcing: India's Tata Eyes China Market As Part Of Drive To Go Global
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Indian firms are looking to expand overseas: not just west, but also east to China, a market with huge domestic opportunities. One such firm is IT services group Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a...
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Social Innovation; Fleet Forum
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In the wake of criticism regarding the response to high-profile disasters, humanitarian organizations began to focus increasingly on improving response delivery through improved logistics. Fleet...
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Philanthrocapitalism: Dawn Of A New Era?
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When Bill Gates and Warren Buffett stood on stage together at the New York Public Library and the elder billionaire announced the he was going to give away most of his fortune through the Bill and...
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Taking The Lead
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Peter Grauer, the Chairman and CEO of Bloomberg, is a man with a mantra and he repeats it every chance he gets: "We have an aspiration at Bloomberg to become the most influential news organization...
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The Middle Kingdom: Civilization State Or Nation State?
January 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
China is a conundrum: past, present and possibly the future. Even as it is on course to overshadow the US as the next dominant economic superpower, author Martin Jacques argues that it will never...
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Just What Kind Of Business Is There In Sustainability?
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Whether in energy, healthcare or micro-investing, is there a real business model in sustaining the world's resources and improving the quality of life for its inhabitants? INSEAD Knowledge...
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Cash Is King, So Work Your Working Capital
December 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
Kevin Kaiser and S. David Young surveyed many companies for their recent Harvard Business Review and found that the traditional business focus on the bottom line actually ties up working capital,...
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Shedding Light: INSEAD Initiatives Seek To Foster Growth, Development In Africa
January 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
Listen to INSEAD faculty, alumni and associates talk, and you realize that Africa is no longer just a story of disease, poverty, misery and humanitarian aid. Or of China's hunger for raw materials...
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Understanding Markets Key To Globalization
January 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
Even as some multinationals are still mulling over their China strategy, others like Siemens had been laying the groundwork in China a long time ago. Today, Siemens is still on track with its...
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"Narrow" Self-Interest, Rather Than Role As A Global Player, Drives China's Foreign Policy
September 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Even as China is poised to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy, its foreign policy is driven less by its sense of its role as a key global player than by a set of 'Narrowly...
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India Economic Outlook
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Although China's overall economic growth continues to outpace India's, India enjoys relatively stronger domestic demand that bolsters a robust economic outlook, according to Dr Sanjaya Baru,...
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Infrastructure Key To Africa's Growth: Asia Has Role To Play
June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
If Africa wants to bridge the chasm from emerging to developed economy, it must have one crucial component in place. According to Paulo Gomes, founder and CEO of Constelor Investment Holdings,...
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Alstom Powers Up To Fight Climate Change
March 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The push for sustainable clean energy as a key driver of developed economies, set against a backdrop of depleted natural resources, may paint a bleak picture for future generations. But according...
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Global Recession A Catalyst For Change In The Advertising Industry
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The downward spiral of the global economy is having some serious implications for the advertising industry, says Steve Henry. "In advertising, they're here to fuel demand - which is a good thing....
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The Social Entrepreneur: Getting Results Where Angels Fear To Tread
December 31, 2010, 12:00am PST
Social entrepreneurs see a problem that they feel compelled to resolve show the world a solution, and start implementing it," says Santos. "They deploy it through entrepreneurial action and get...
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Revisiting The Five Forces Framework - An Update
December 31, 2010, 12:00am PST
Used by strategy consultants to assess a firm's strategic position vis-à-vis its competition, Michael Porter believes his seminal Five Forces framework is still as relevant today as it was 30...
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Social Responsibility In Business Today
June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Take the case of Tropical Telecom, a telecommunications holding company whose subsidiaries provide internet VoIP services in the Caribbean and the United States. The company's Haitian subsidiary,...
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Re-Tooling The Microfinance Model In Asia
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
More than three billion people live in poverty around the world, but millions are managing to raise their living standards to some degree, thanks to microfinance. Even so, there's plenty of scope...
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Putting Europe Back On Track
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There is a before and after in every crisis, says Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director of the INSEAD eLab and one of the authors of the report. "The belief among many analysts and observers is that...
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Where Business And Friendship Mix: Toasting An Investment In India's Wine Market
November 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
Looking back, there was a simple macro call, if you believe India was growing economically; India is, and was, a very alcohol consuming country. Many people don't realize it, but India is the...
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The Value Creation Imperative
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
It's been just over 400 years since a Dutch company became the first organization to sell shares and became publicly traded. By 2007, more than one billion people owned a stake in the world's...
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The China Syndrome: Understanding The Chinese Economy
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
China's economy is booming and many multinational companies are looking to tap the Asian giant's potential. However, according to Peter Bowie, CEO of Deloitte China, foreigners wanting to does...
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Facilitating Upward Communication: Leaders Must Do More To Break Existing Strongholds
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Oftentimes, what separates good leaders from bad ones lies is their art of communication. Much has been said about preferred leadership styles which advocate openness, tolerance and active...
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