The Role of Urban Spaces in the Creation of Value

By Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, discusses how urban landscape design plays an important role in the creation...

Transport And The Environment in Asian Megacities

By Shinya Hanaoka This article has addressed two environmental problems whose origins lie in the transport sector: local air pollution and CO2 emissions. Globally, the...

The Oreo Story: How Kraft Turned America’s Favorite Cookie into a Chinese Classic

By Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao & David Michael When Irene Rosenfeld became CEO of Kraft Foods in June 2006, she became the...

Global Tourism and Travel Industry: Performance During the Double-Dip Recession and Recommendations for Transition...

By Maharaj Vijay Reddy This review article outlines the impressive growth of the global tourism and travel industry during the on-going economic slowdown. It briefly...

Everyone Leads

By Paul Schmitz Everyone leads. When I began using this phrase in presentations about Public Allies and chose it as the title of my book,...

The Educated Middle Class, their Economic Prospects, and the Arab Spring

By Filipe R. Campante & Davin Chor The recent uprisings in the Arab World carry a broader lesson, highlighting the importance of sustaining an economy...

Marketing Life Insurance in China: How Cultural Taboo Matters

By Cheris Shun-ching Chan How does a market for a new product emerge in the face of cultural barriers? Marketing life insurance in China has...

India’s Luxury – A Tale of Paradoxes

By Glyn Atwal & Soumya Jain As the Indian luxury market enters the next phases of development, the rewards of this potentially massive market will...

Can We Afford to Live Longer in Better Health?

By Frank Pellikaan & Ed Westerhout Rising longevity, low fertility and declining disability have serious implications for public finances. Although alternative assumptions on longevity and...

Twitter, the ‘Snoopers Charter’ and Online Privacy

By Paul Reilly Has the Internet, and micro-blogging site Twitter in particular, killed privacy? Well, not quite. In June 2011, Eric Schmidt used his keynote speech...

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The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI

By Terence Tse CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value. A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...

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