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97: China’s Babytree.com: how it achieved its growth spurt
Just three years after starting up, Babytree.com, a social networking ...
Just three years after starting up, Babytree.com, a social networking site for parents in China already boasts some 12 million visitors, a mammoth feat by any standards.
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96: Negotiating to win
INSEAD Professor Horacio Falcao talks about how a Win-Win approach ...
INSEAD Professor Horacio Falcao talks about how a Win-Win approach to negotiation trumps a Win-Lose on many levels, and also why we need not go into these negotiations believing it to be a done deal.
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95: Turning around Tyco: how corporate governance saved the day
“Shareholders are screaming. The stock price has dropped from $60 ...
“Shareholders are screaming. The stock price has dropped from $60 to $7 a share. The press is hitting you every day with requests for info on the turnaround of the company. The prior management is still there, wondering about their futures. The prior board is there, wondering about their futures. And you’re there, trying to bring some order to this chaos.” That’s how Eric Pillmore describes a typical day at the office when he stepped into the corporate governance role at Tyco early in August of 2002.
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Special edition: INSEAD & WEF release Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010
INSEAD Professor Soumitra Dutta discusses the main findings of the ...
INSEAD Professor Soumitra Dutta discusses the main findings of the Global Information Technology Report, which is jointly published by INSEAD and the World Economic Forum.
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94: Inside the world of Sir Martin Sorrell
Communications guru Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of the worlds largest ...
Communications guru Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of the worlds largest communications services company, WPP, braved a snowstorm to address an INSEAD graduating MBA class. His key message to future managers on how to get things done in an increasingly global corporate environment?
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92: Greece's Third Try: Is it Enough?
Greece issued its third plan to reduce its deficit and ...
Greece issued its third plan to reduce its deficit and cut expenses. The Euro rallied and the country's bond issue this week was over-subsrcibed. But INSEAD Assistant Professor of Finance Harald Hau says the country is still not out of the woods and both EU support and more internal cost-cutting are necessary.
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91: Sameer Hajee of Nuru Design
INSEAD alumnus Sameer Hajee is banking on a micro-entrepreneurial structure ...
INSEAD alumnus Sameer Hajee is banking on a micro-entrepreneurial structure to make his newly-created Nuru Light Design a success. With seed money from the World Bank, Hajee was able to complete a feasibility study, a field trial and a product design for what is essentially a single-serving of light -- an affordable LED rechargeable flashlight unit, which can be used alone or in a stack, to light up a students desk or an entire house.
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90:ILSME: Joe Saddi, chairman of Booz & Co
Joe Saddi, chairman of Booz & Co, explains the role ...
Joe Saddi, chairman of Booz & Co, explains the role of R&D; funding in innovation in the Middle East, and also the importance of education and diversity
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89: Drucker on the ‘bounded goodness’ of corporate social responsibility
Peter Drucker’s immense contribution to the thinking and practice of ...
Peter Drucker’s immense contribution to the thinking and practice of management extends to social responsibility in business. This work goes back over 60 years but remains relevant today -- notwithstanding the impacts of globalisation and the greater interconnectedness of business and society.
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88: THE GREAT DEBATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
INSEAD professors Theo Vermaelen and Paul Kleindorfer debate climate change ...
INSEAD professors Theo Vermaelen and Paul Kleindorfer debate climate change and the implications for businesses post-Copenhagen.
