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Winning the Talent War in Emerging Markets: Women are the Answer
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid “As global companies try to harness the growth and possibilities of emerging markets, the extraordinary energy, ambition and drive of BRIC women can provide a critical competitive edge.” In the four years since Goldman Sachs launched its business in Brazil, growth has exceeded all expectations. Headcount in the [...]
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By Jeremy Rifkin Our industrial civilization is at a crossroads. Oil and the other fossil fuel energies that make up the industrial way of life are sunsetting, and the technologies made from and propelled by these energies are antiquated. The entire industrial infrastructure built off of fossil fuels is aging and in disrepair. The result [...]
Transforming Government – Nine Critical Steps
By Andrew Kakabadse “The transformation of government can no longer rely on past century models of public administration. Effectively integrating structural alignment with the sensitivities required for engagement are the key.” “The pace of globalisation shows no signs of slackening….This has resulted in a profound change in the economic environment facing business,” these are the [...]
Smart specialization for cities. A roadmap for city intelligence and excellence
Feature By Jan Sturesson, Hazem Galal and Laurent Probst “We need new perspectives of cities, their visions, knowledge, creativity and motivation in order to find new ways to develop strategic city management.” The growing importance of cities The OECD estimates that 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by the year 2050. [...]
By Nicolas Depetris Chauvin Growth without structural transformation has proved to be unsustainable. Africa needs to diversify their economies if they want to become authentic economic lions. These are promising times for Africa, which has been enjoying almost a decade of stronger economic growth. The continent’s average growth last year was almost five times the [...]
ExecuJet Aviation Group meeting the development demands in Africa
By ExecuJet Aviation Group “Operating in an environment in which Africa is still recovering from the global recession, ExecuJet have a crucial role to play in ensuring business is picking up as efficiently as possible.” A specific focus for ExecuJet is to take up the challenge of providing modern, safety regulated aviation services to all [...]
GLOBAL TRENDS: Facing Up to a Changing World
By Adrian Done “How much time do you dedicate to thinking about the REALLY BIG issues that are likely to affect your personal and professional life in the next 20 years?” 1876 was not a very good year for the Samurai. After hundreds of years of considerable success in ruling over Japan, several events conspired [...]
Winning the Talent War in Emerging Markets: Women are the Answer
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid “As global companies try to harness the growth and possibilities of emerging markets, the extraordinary energy, ambition and drive of BRIC women can provide a critical competitive edge.” In the four years since Goldman Sachs launched its business in Brazil, growth has exceeded all expectations. Headcount in the [...]
Reshaping Tomorrow: What will India look like in 2025?
By Ejaz Ghani What will India and the rest of South Asia look like in 2025? The optimistic view is that India will achieve double-digit growth rates. The pessimistic view is that growth will be derailed by structural and transformational challenges. Which of these two outlooks will prevail? What can be done today to reshape [...]
Brilliant Mistakes: Creating Portals of Discovery
By Paul J. H. Schoemaker “Mistakes are our portals of discovery.” James Joyce If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant, or taken an antibiotic, you have firsthand experience with the power of mistakes. Each one of those innovations resulted from a flash or two of brilliant insight, [...]
Shaping Global Political Realities: The Workings of Transnational Elite Networks
By Ian N. Richardson, Andrew P. Kakabadse & Nada K. Kakabadse Over the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in the way international politics is conducted. Gone are the structural certainties of the Cold War and, in their place, are more fluid, and somewhat more unpredictable, patterns of international cooperation. Determined, in [...]
By Emanuela Scarpellini Can we go on consuming as we do today, perhaps even more so? Would it not be better to devise a consumer model that is more thrifty and balanced, maybe on the lines of yesteryear? One unexpected consequence of the long crisis besetting many Western countries is that we are rethinking certain [...]
Russia from the Fur Trade to Carbon Aristocracy
By Alexander Etkind “Russia’s geographical space was largely shaped by the fur trade. Oil and gas have been found in those very spaces that the medieval Russians colonized for their export of commodities. Russia’s problems are plentiful, and I believe that the dependency on oil and gas exports is an important source of many of [...]
Food Prices: Should Emerging Market Economies Be Concerned?
By Nicolás Depetris Chauvin “High food prices are here to stay. This should be a reason of great concern not only in less developed countries but also in the most dynamic emerging market economies.” Food prices have doubled in real terms in the last eight years. Nevertheless, in recent weeks, sovereign debt troubles in developed [...]
Solving the Asset–Shortage Problem of Emerging Markets
By Patrick Imam “The growing appetite for emerging market financial assets (such as equity or bonds) by local and foreign investors has not been met by a commensurate increase in the supply of these assets. This is because an economy’s ability to produce output is only imperfectly linked to its ability to generate financial assets.” [...]
Exercise 24: Using Socia l Media for Crisis Response
By George H. Bressler, Murray E. Jennex & Eric G. Frost “Can populations self-organize a crisis response? This is a field report on the first two efforts in a continuing series of exercises termed Exercise 24 or X24. These exercises attempted to demonstrate that self-organizing groups can form and respond to a crisis using low-cost [...]
The China Model: a Civilizational-State Perspective
By Zhang Weiwei China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest continuous civilization and a huge modern state which is a product of hundreds of states amalgamated into one over the past thousands of years of history. The state is characterized [...]
Neoliberal Globalization, Masculinity and Gender Justice
By Raewyn Connell “A relatively new field of social research has documented the diversity of masculinities in the world. Globalization is not a separate issue from this; it grows out of a history of imperialism in which gender hierarchies were embedded. Organizational life embeds gender relations in ways that make equality difficult to achieve. Struggles [...]
By Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari There are many different ways that corruption can be defined but arguably the best working definition is an action of a public official for private gain. Corruption can broadly be divided into petty and big-ticket and both of these appear to be endemic in India. A large part of [...]
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Making stars like Scarlett look good
Born and raised in the Philippines to a businessman and a socialite model, Monique Lhuillier is today one of LA's most celebrated fashion designers, with a clientele that includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristen Stewart, Reese Witherspoon, and Scarlett Johansson.
Fortune 500's female powerbrokers
Fortune's latest ranking of America's 500 largest corporations includes more women CEOs than ever before.
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