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107: Entrepreneurship: the Bootcamp approach
Entrepreneurs need to have plenty of self-confidence and be passionate ...
Entrepreneurs need to have plenty of self-confidence and be passionate about their projects – not just when starting up their own businesses but also when innovating within large corporations. “The biggest difference I see between managers and entrepreneurs is that managers analyse a lot and entrepreneurs act a lot,” says INSEAD Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Filipe Santos.
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106: MBC: Building a media powerhouse in an emerging market
Can Western broadcasters learn anything from the one of the ...
Can Western broadcasters learn anything from the one of the Middle East's most successful satellite channels? According to a recently-released case study by Annet Aris, Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, the answer is yes.
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105: Banking Boards: In Hindsight, A Failure in oversight.
The banking crisis was due in no small part to ...
The banking crisis was due in no small part to a lack of oversight from Boards of Directors. So shows research into the German banking system by INSEAD Associate Professor of Finance Harald Hau.
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104: Corporate Governance Comes of Age.
In today's financial meltdown aftermath, the world is asking "who ...
In today's financial meltdown aftermath, the world is asking "who was watching the store?" How were so many smart businesspeople able to ignore what -- in hindsight -- appear to be major signals of impending catastrophy? INSEAD's Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation Ludo Van Der Heyden has created a Corporate Governance Initiative to answer those questions and ensure the same situations don't arise again.
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103: How much is an executive worth?
Perhaps no other time in modern history has executive pay ...
Perhaps no other time in modern history has executive pay come under the microscope. What are these people really worth and how -- with what kinds of tools - do you measure their value? INSEAD Professor of Accounting and Control S. David Young and his colleagues have developed a metric to answer those questions..and it's not just about the bottom line.
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102: ILSE: Joe Saddi, Chairman, Booz & Co
Joe Saddi, Chairman of global consulting firm Booz & Co, ...
Joe Saddi, Chairman of global consulting firm Booz & Co, is more sanguine in his view of the future. "By now I think we've seen the worst," he says, "but it was blunted by massive government stimulation and there is still a lot to be done to get us out of the woods ..."
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101: Is it over yet? Businessmen offer recession insight
Finnish-American Mika Salmi (MBA '92D) is just such a person. ...
Finnish-American Mika Salmi (MBA '92D) is just such a person. The former Viacom president for global digital media (2006-2009) now lives in California and sits on several boards while developing a slew of technology ideas.
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100: Social responsibility in business today
Take the case of Tropical Telecom, with a subsidiary based ...
Take the case of Tropical Telecom, with a subsidiary based in Haiti, when a major earthquake hit the country on January 21, Tropical Telecom instantly became an integral part of relief efforts. Chris Taylor (MBA '00D), its President and CEO, tells us more.
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99: Debt overhang, inflation threaten world economy
Pippa Malmgren, a former advisor to US President George W ...
Pippa Malmgren, a former advisor to US President George W Bush on economics, spoke at a Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI) event at INSEAD in Singapore this week (April 27). She talks here to INSEAD Knowledge about national debt problems
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98: Philanthrocapitalism: dawn of a new era?
Economist US Business Editor Matthew Bishop talks about how the ...
Economist US Business Editor Matthew Bishop talks about how the philanthrocapitalism is changing mindsets in boardrooms, and the role that Grameen Bank's Muhammad Yunus of the microfinance movement has played.
