The New Competition: Brands from Emerging Markets
By Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp
In an article adapted from Brand Breakout: How Emerging Market Brands Will Go Global, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp argues that emerging market brands will become increasingly global, and suggests that the strategies these companies should use to build global brands are not traditional.
January – February 2014
Management
Restoring Executive Authenticity
By Roger L. Martin
Restoring Executive Authenticity
By Roger L. Martin
Manage Third Parties and Manage Your Risks
By Adam Turteltaub
Elevating board performance: The significance of director mindset, operating context, and other behavioral and functional considerations
By Simon C.Y. Wong
How Green is the Cloud?
By Kfir Godrich, VP & Managing Principal for HP Technology Services
Finance
Investing in Liquid Gold
Putting Mind into Markets
By David Tuckett
Time to Win Investors Over
By Baruch Lev
World Economy
Rethinking Global Financial Governance Reform
By Daniel D. Bradlow
The Causes of the Banking Crises of the 1920’s
By Simon D. Norton
Emerging Markets are Re-Shaping the Global Economy, But Also Shaking It
By George Magnus
America
A Comment on “The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform, eds”
By Marvin M. Smith, Anthony Orlando, and Susan Wachter
A Comment on “The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform, eds”
By Marvin M. Smith, Anthony Orlando, and Susan Wachter
An Inquiry into Why America Spends While the World Saves
By Sheldon Garon
Africa
The New Scramble for Africa
By Pádraig Carmody
China
Changes at the top in Chinese Banking
By Violaine Cousin
Middle East
The Believers Are But A Single Brotherhood1: Political Islam In Post-Mubarak Egypt
By Joseph Yackley
From A Niche Market To The Mainstream: What Has Driven Islamic Banking Growth?
By Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar
Conventional versus Islamic Private Equity
By Mohamed Ali Chatti and Ouidad Yousfi
Globalisation is Over: The era of transnational marketing and connected consumers
In an article based on his recent book, Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers, Ibrahim Sirkeci argues that there is a paradigm shift in business and marketing management. As the speed of communication and transportation increases, local consumers and organisations are ever more connected but not identical despite the blurring national boundaries. Companies face a tough challenge to achieve efficiencies while customising to the extreme to satisfy “glocal” consumers in this new era of transnational marketing.
Inequality Trends and Their Determinants: Latin America over the Period 1990–2010
For at least the last quarter of the twentieth century, Latin America has suffered from low growth, rising inequality, and frequent financial crises. However, in recent years Latin American countries with different political orientations and economic structures have enjoyed sizeable drops in income inequality. Below, Giovanni Andrea Cornia argues that if left unaddressed, the structural biases of the Latin American economy may block future declines in inequality by retarding the shift to a sustainable and equitable growth path.
A Review of Abenomics: The Bold Plan to End Deflationary Recession in Japan
In order to catalyse economic activity and pull Japan from its two-decade period of deflationary recession, new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has enacted a bold recovery strategy. Thus far, his programs have not yet yielded the dramatic shift that he hoped for. Below, Mitsuru Misawa explores and rates the projects, and outlines possible future courses.
Leading through Engagement: Creating Foundations for the Africa of Tomorrow, Today.
By Sean Culey
Africa is at a tipping point. It is poised for growth, but the question is whether this growth will be based on sustainable foundations that benefit the majority, or on commodities that only benefit a few. Below, Sean Culey argues that Africa’s business leaders need to play a pivotal role, but only if these leaders learn from the mistakes of the rest of the world.
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
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...
