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Bringing Romance Back to the Office |
| Thursday, 02 February 2012 at 12:05 |
| By Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group |
There are many types of family businesses - as I was reminded when Virgin Money recently acquired the British bank Northern Rock - which we are in the process of rebranding Virgin Money. As I traveled around the country, welcoming the Northern Rockers as the newest members of the Virgin Group, the...
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The Water Hegemon |
| Thursday, 02 February 2012 at 09:02 |
| By Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi |
International discussion about China’s rise has focused on its increasing trade muscle, growing maritime ambitions, and expanding capacity to project military power. One critical issue, however, usually escapes attention: China’s rise as a hydro-hegemon with no modern historical parallel.
No...
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Tall in 2011 |
| Wednesday, 01 February 2012 at 08:14 |
| By Yasser Elsheshtawy, Associate Professor of Architecture - United Arab Emirates University |
The year 2011 has been a good one for really tall buildings, which is kind of surprising given the overall economic downturn. One would have expected that the appetite for such large projects to have subsided. But, in some parts of the world their construction has been on the rise.
According to a...
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Days of Easy Money are over for Fund Managers |
| Wednesday, 01 February 2012 at 08:04 |
| By Alice Schroeder |
As a profit-making endeavour, managing other people’s money is hard to beat. The business requires very little invested capital. There are no worries about getting paid in full when the bill comes due, since fund managers control their customers’ money. And lackluster performance is no bar to...
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Asia’s New Tripartite Entente |
| Wednesday, 01 February 2012 at 07:57 |
| By Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi |
The launch of trilateral strategic consultations among the United States, India, and Japan, and their decision to hold joint naval exercises this year, signals efforts to form an entente among the Asia-Pacific region’s three leading democracies. These efforts – in the world’s most...
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A Double-Edged Sword |
| Tuesday, 31 January 2012 at 07:56 |
| Dr Jarmo T. Kotilaine, Chief Economist, The National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia |
After the recent decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade nine Euro-zone economies - including France, Italy, and Spain - rating agencies are once again at the centre of controversy. As European governments try to push through painful cuts and reforms, the prospect of moving goal posts is...
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Wall Street Justice System Is a Kangaroo Court |
| Tuesday, 31 January 2012 at 07:48 |
| By William D. Cohan |
There has been a fair amount written recently about various institutional cartels that are thriving in the US despite antitrust laws designed to prevent their existence.
My previous column compared Wall Street’s few remaining investment banks to a cartel, with explicit pricing power over its...
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Foreclosure after Emerging Markets Real Estate Crash |
| Tuesday, 31 January 2012 at 07:41 |
| By William Gamble, President - Emerging Market Strategies |
It took some time, but they are finally beginning to get it. Leading financial analysts, money managers and economists have commenced to comprehend that real estate bubbles in many emerging markets could crash. The Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman wrote in his New York Times column that China...
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Six Strategy Insights for RIM's New CEO |
| Monday, 30 January 2012 at 07:49 |
| By Stephen Wunker |
Thorsten Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion, has been plucked from the relative obscurity of the chief operating officer position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Having pioneered the smartphone industry with its BlackBerry, RIM...
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Your PR Efforts may be Hurting You |
| Monday, 30 January 2012 at 07:49 |
| By Alex Goldfayn |
I’ve been on both sides of the public relations industry. For years, I wrote a syndicated technology column for the Chicago Tribune. Now I run a consulting firm that focuses on clients’ marketing efforts.
When I was a recipient of press releases, and now, as I streamline PR efforts, one thing...
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