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...

Fiscal Child Abuse American Style

By Laurence Kotlikoff & Scott Burns President Kennedy said, “Our problems are man-made.  Therefore, they may be solved by man.” Looking at America’s current horrendous...

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...

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...

Between Heaven and the Deep Blue Sea: Kitimat’s strategic placement facilitates a growing economy

By Rose Klukas “At Kitimat the setting for a good life must be hewn out of the unknown wilderness. Pioneers must become old-timers, bound to...

Logistics Clusters: The Feedback Loop Leading to Economic Growth and Jobs

By Yossi Sheffi Governments around the world are investing in logistics clusters to encourage economic growth and create jobs. While the advantages of high-technology, knowledge-based...

Dividends – Everything you know is wrong!

By David Hogarty The world is constantly changing. We see it all the time. Yesterday’s league leaders become today’s relegation battlers. Alternative misfits become mainstream...

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...

Keynes, Kant and Capital Flows

By Oliver Bush This is an abridged and altered version of Bush, O, Farrant, K and Wright, M (2011), ‘Reform of the International Monetary and...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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