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Nigel Roberts

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Nigel Roberts is a correspondent for INSEAD Knowledge.

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Clicks vs. Bricks: The Battle for the High Street

Nigel Roberts

Could social media and e-commerce provide the road to salvation for beleaguered High Street retailers? In Britain, shopkeepers figure you can beat them – but how?

Responsibility

Can Value Innovations Save Healthcare?

Nigel Roberts

An aging population and burgeoning public debt mean the healthcare sector faces a huge economic and social challenge serving the public in the 21st century. Can we have it both better and cheaper? A report from the INSEAD Alumni Healthcare Summit in London.
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Economics & Finance

The year of the austerity Olympics

The 2012 Summer Games cost £9 billion. What kind of stimulus will that bring to the U.K. economy? And what will remain after the medals have been awarded and the cheering stops?

Responsibility

From Port Sunlight to Sao Paulo

Sustainability is no longer an optional extra for companies trying to prove their CSR credentials. If it isn’t in your corporate DNA, you won’t last.

Responsibility

What price energy security?

Increasing demands from a growing world population, civil unrest, terrorist attacks, human mistakes, natural disasters… all add up to a future full of “ifs” for the energy industry.

Economics & Finance

What's behind the UK riots?

Nigel Roberts

With less than a year to go before the London Olympics, the August riots in Great Britain raised concerns over their impact on the Games, while others claimed this unrest signalled the end of Western civilisation altogether. A former BBC-CNBC reporter shares his three decades of experience from behind-the-lines.