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Can Europe Regain Its Once-Competitive Edge?
The continent has educated talent, a huge population, and massive wealth. It also has rigid labour laws, crushing tax systems and a bias against risk-taking.
Women on boards: No quotas...yet
EU to vote on controversial issue next month; INSEAD corporate governance leaders weigh in.
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Global Innovation Index 2012
Report shows Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore most innovative.
Competing for the cloud
Cloud computing has made life easy for millions of users. But it’s a different story for software companies providing those cloud-based services: the field is small, the game is fast and the battle for dominance is fierce. SAP is determined to win.
So it’s the euro, not the drachma…
New Democracy won a narrow victory in the recent Greek election and is on the verge of forming a three-party coalition government.
What’s going to be interesting is to see how the new government is going to renegotiate the bailout with the “Troika‟ (European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank).
What is our networked readiness?
When the INSEAD/WEF Global Information Technology Report was created 11 years ago, the countries with the most fixed-line telephones were the best-connected in the world. Today, it’s a much different story.
Steve Jobs: Speaking from the wilderness
Editor’s Note: Nearly 16 years ago to the day, I interviewed Steve Jobs at an investment conference in San Francisco, California. He was “out of favour,” in-between his bifurcated tenure at the helm of Apple, revolutionising movie-making as chairman and CEO of Pixar. In retrospect, we see that Jobs brought his Apple technology approach to the movies and took movie marketing with him back to Apple…
Leadership today: An inward journey
Executive training may not make a leader out of a follower, but it certainly can make a promising leader better... provided he's willing to put in the effort and take a good long look into his soul.
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Don't make it; buy it!
There’s more than one way to become an entrepreneur: instead of starting your own company, you can go out and buy one.
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The Russians are coming!
Sberbank has been the bank of babushkas since the day of the Tsars. Now it has its sights on a much bigger market.
"The Awakening of the People"
Olivier Giscard d'Estaing looks back to reflect on the future.
Beyond downgrades: Seeking signs of recovery
If today's economic crisis seems akin to the Great Depression, consider this: so is the caution that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
