Oil For Food: Big Business in The Middle East

By Eckart Woertz Middle Eastern countries are highly dependent on food imports. They have reacted to the global food crisis of 2008 with various measures...

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...

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...

Enterprise Risk Management A need to hasten the obliteration of legacy IT systems

By Anna DeSimone Back in the 1980s, IBM mainframe systems were the heart of a bank’s computer structure. During this period, integrated retail banking systems...

Why Information Providers Need To Be Open To Sharing in Their Business Models

By Joshua Gans Information content providers, especially publishers of media (including books, news, journals, music and video), have been concerned that “information wants to be...

How Rapidly Should Africa Go Green? The Tension Between Natural Abundance And Economic Scarcity.

By Paul Collier & Anthony J. Venables Africa is the green continent: its CO2 emissions per person are less than one tonne pa, one-fifteenth of...

Rebuilding Retirement System Resiliency in the Wake of the Financial Crisis

By Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell & Mark Warshawsky The global financial meltdown has had important repercussions for capital market returns, labor market earnings, household...

Digital Social Capital: Building, Maintaining and Leveraging Digital Networks for Innovation and Creativity

By Anabel Quan-Haase The digital landscape makes it clear that individuals are employing multiple sources of information, are members of diverse, sparsely-knit and specialized interest...

The Business of Healthcare Innovation: Convergence in the Marketplace

By Lawton Robert Burns The article is adapted from the author’s latest book ‘The Business of Healthcare Innovation‘ (Cambridge University Press, 2012)   Innovation and the Value...

Asset Price Bubbles: Lessons From The Recent Financial Crisis

By Douglas Evanoff, George Kaufman & Anastasios G. Malliaris The successful performance of the U.S. economy during the ‘Great Moderation’ period of 1984 to 2006...

EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK

CFO's new mandate. CFO explaining the presentation

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...

WISE DECISION MAKER GUIDE

POWER INFLUENCERS

Emerging Trends

The Future of Global Trade