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Healthcare reform today is being avidly discussed in political, social, medical and business circles around the world. In developing countries, the billions of dollars spent on containing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other pandemic diseases such as TB and malaria, are beginning to show some positive results. In Europe, the cost of government-sponsored healthcare is having a negative impact on GDP, while in the US, the Obama Administration is embarking on the country's most ambitious attempt at providing universal coverage for some 47 million plus people in the country without health insurance.
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Human capital: the challenges facing Asia
While the economic downturn is a key focus for many C-level executives, the need to attract and retain talent remains an important issue, says INSEAD Professor Narayan Pant. This is all the more so in Asia where developing countries such as China and India are helping to drive the world's economic recovery.
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Beating the market with buybacks
Six months ago, INSEAD Professors Urs Peyer and Theo Vermaelen invested in a portfolio of 24 stocks that were expected to beat the market. Their methodology involved buying shares of US-listed companies that announce open market share buyback programmes, and where it appears that the buyback is driven by the fact that the management believes its shares are undervalued.
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Capitalism thrives in virtual world: Second Life gives commerce a second chance
In the beginning, the online virtual world was a place for action video games such as Grand Theft Auto, or hanging out and chatting. Today, says INSEAD Marketing Professor, Miklos Sarvary, it's a very different place. Commerce and capitalism have entered the picture.
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The enduring idea on which INSEAD was founded came from the man considered to be one of the founders of the venture capital industry, Georges Doriot, a French-born, naturalised American who had both studied and taught at Harvard Business School.
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While many are already talking about the notion of a shift in power from West to East, a thought-provoking book by author Martin Jacques called 'When China rules the world' takes this even further by proclaiming that China will not only thrive in the 21st century, but will do so at the expense of the United States.
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Where next for GE?
"Investors love certainty. I just don't think we're going to live in a 'certain' time," says Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, commenting candidly on the current business environment and how successful business players need to have a corporate culture and strategic process that is flexible and can adapt quickly.
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A winning combination: sales and marketing
The great divide between sales and marketing has been exacerbated by the recession, and the marketing camp seems to be losing the good fight.
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Tupperware: a party somewhere every two seconds
Say "Tupperware" to anyone over 40 and you conjure up visions of 1950s American housewives gathered together at someone's home for a chance to test and buy airtight, plastic food containers. Passe, right? Wrong.
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Swiss banking secrecy remains intact despite US authorities winning tax battle with UBS
Switzerland's banking industry is firmly against "indiscriminate and unwarranted trawling" through bank accounts to uncover tax frauds, says Urs Roth, CEO of the Swiss Bankers Association.
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How economic excesses of the past are influencing the present
The global economic environment of cheap money in the past two decades has been an aberration, which has led to today's "massive capacity destruction" of natural resources, says Pippa Malmgren, President and Co-founder of the financial services firms the Canonbury Group and Principalis Asset Management.
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Fairtrade coffee farmers battle for survival in Colombia
On the hillsides of Riosucio in the Caldas State of Colombia, 62-year-old Edwardo Antonio is one of over 400 Fairtrade coffee farmers. In the early 1990s, his community of mostly indigenous farmers was given the opportunity to work for themselves and taught how to grow and process world-class coffee sought after by buyers such as Starbucks and Equal Exchange.
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Economic downturn 'opens doors' for recycling business Worn Again
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 the market.
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Sula Vineyards: India's case for wine
When foreign sommeliers come to India, they come with very low expectations. After all, India is better known for its cotton industry than wine production. However that is now changing.
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Understanding markets key to globalisation
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.
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Why Gymboree's China strategy is no child's play
As China's star continues to shine, one of the more recent beneficiaries of the country's economic boom is the early childhood development sector.
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Doing business in China: the importance of guanxi
It is virtually impossible to do business in China without some level of guanxi or relationship. The question is: just how much guanxi is needed?
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In high spirits: LVMH sees 'huge potential' of China's traditional liquor market
When Moet Hennessy, the wines and spirits business of leading luxury products group LVMH, acquired a 55 per cent stake in Wenjun Distillery, one of China's premium bai jiu (white spirits) companies, the company raised a few eyebrows because it was doing something it had never, in its illustrious history, done before.
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