What will it take to put Europe back on track? That question was the basis for the eighth European Business Summit and a research report conducted by INSEAD, Accenture and the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, with funding from Sun and Microsoft.

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Trading places

Numbers may not lie, but often their true significance lies in closer scrutiny. And a good example of this statement lies in the numbers used to tout the world's great trade imbalance with China - a deficit that shows the EU trade deficit growing from 50 billion euros in 2000 to 297 billion in 2008.

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The path to energy futures: the long march with pitfalls

There is an obvious connection between energy and economic growth: cheap fuel means lower production costs. As energy consumption is on an upward trajectory - with growth in the Far East and Latin America outpacing the industrialised countries in the near term - the key to prosperity is to develop cheaper and sustainable sources of fuel to replace fossil fuels and curtail the environmentally-unfriendly carbon footprint.

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Taking the lead

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 organisation in the world."

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'Narrow' self-interest, rather than role as a global player, drives China's foreign policy

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 defined' national interests, says Professor Kenneth Lieberthal, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at The Brookings Institution.

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Outsourcing: India's Tata eyes China market as part of drive to go global

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 company with some 160,000 employees in 42 countries.

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How LG Electronics reinvented itself in the US

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 washing machines, and has since been successfully maintaining its lead in the two home appliance categories with current respective market shares of about 24 per cent.

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Private equity's challenge in the Middle East: how to spend 11 billion dollars?

INSEAD and Booz & Company have issued a report titled 'Private Equity in the Middle East: A Rising Contender in Emerging Markets'. The report examines how the industry has evolved over the years as well as its current challenges and outlook.

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A passion for education

If you build it, they will come, so the mantra goes, and that's exactly what Ng Gim Choo did with the EtonHouse group of schools. However, after becoming an established market leader in Singapore with 10 centres, Ng says breaking into the China market was more daunting.

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Sustainable practices: engaging consumers and suppliers

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 products to the natural resources required to make the packaging, "extending all the way to the people who buy and consume our drinks and handle the packaging," says CCE Europe's Communications Director, Shanna Wendt (YMP Sep '05).

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Raising the bar on dyslexia treatment

On a trip back home to North Carolina, Chad Myers (MBA '04J) met up with a friend and advisor, Sandie Barrie Blackley, and told her he was looking to get back into entrepreneurship. At that stage of his life, some two years ago, Myers was teaching at INSEAD and running the school's International Centre for Entrepreneurship.

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