Logistics Clusters: The Feedback Loop Leading to Economic Growth and Jobs Between Heaven and the Deep Blue Sea: Kitimat’s strategic placement facilitates a growing economy The Business of Healthcare Innovation: Convergence in the Marketplace Digital Social Capital: Building, Maintaining and Leveraging Digital Networks for Innovation and Creativity Staying Power: Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World China Marketing Life Insurance in China: How Cultural Taboo Matters Asset Price Bubbles: Lessons From The Recent Financial Crisis Dividends – Everything you know is wrong! Europe Middle East
Writing a Manifesto for Better Management
Rafael Andreu & Josep M. Rosanas
Yossi Sheffi
Rose Klukas
Innovation
Why Questions Matter
Phil McKinney
Lawton Robert Burns
Anabel Quan-Haa
Michael A. Cusumano
The Chinese Miracle: A Modern Day Industrial Revolution Fred Stahl
Loretta Napoleoni
Cheris Shun-ching Chan
Why Transfer Pricing is Key to Decision Making and Strategic Reviews
Les Secular
Douglas Evanoff, George Kaufman & Anastasios G. Malliaris
David Hogarty
America
Fiscal Child Abuse American Style
Laurence Kotlikoff & Scott Burns
India
India’s Luxury – A Tale of Paradoxes
Glyn Atwal & Soumya Jain
The Crisis in the Eurozone
Justin Yifu Lin & Volker Treichel
The Educated Middle Class, their Economic Prospects, and the Arab Spring
Filipe R. Campante & Davin Chor
September – October 2012
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 Financial System’, Bank of England Financial Stability Paper no. 13.
Is Venture Capital In Crisis?
By Douglas Cumming & Sofia Johan
The recent financial crisis cannot totally be blamed for the marked drops in venture capital fundraising, reduced venture investment and the hindrance of successful exits around the world, but it may have exacerbated the existing problems. Poor returns over the past decade indicate most fund managers do not earn their fees, and investors have been increasingly wary of taking on added risk without getting the reward. Structural changes are inevitable to the venture capital marketplace to preserve an essential source of funding for nascent high-growth companies.
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 disability may alleviate or increase the pressure on public finances, public finances will become unsustainable if policy reforms fail to occur.
Sino-Russian relations: More rhetoric than substance?
By Robert Bedeski & Niklas Swanström
Despite some re-engagement between China and Russia since Putin’s initial embrace of the West, the positive rhetoric of today often does not reflect reality. There has been significant internal competition and tension that continues to negatively affect Sino-Russian relations that is looked at more closely in the article. The vivid statements on the flourishing partnership are often clearly more declaratory than substantive.
Google versus the Law
Google’s legal adventures in Europe are constantly demonstrating that Google is pushing the boundaries of European information law to their outer limits. The conflicting interaction of Google’s business methods and of European legal norms is a major challenge both for the revision of Google’s business tactics and for the evolution of law in a way that takes into account emerging innovative technologies and practices. In this context, it is important to examine how the fundamental dogma of the free flow of information and the principle of automated neutral data-processing, which both are defended and applied by Google, have been tested before the European jurisdictions in the light of copyright law, trademark law, data protection and personality rights.
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.
Sofitel So Mauritius
A Timeless Luxurious Experience
In the heart of the Indian Ocean, imagine a fragrant Eden on the shores of the Indian Ocean. Imagine a luxuriant garden of flowering hibiscus, paradise of exotic colorful birds. Mauritius has preserved its natural treasures and offers an unforgettable experience at a cultural crossroads.
Do You Own The Decisive Moment of Truth With Your Customers?
In every customer interaction is a moment of truth, a point when they will decide to take a course of action that will have either a positive or negative impact on the business. It is possible to own this moment and increase the number of positive outcomes. However, far too many organisations fail to adequately prepare themselves for this moment and are blind to the signals of intent the customer is providing.
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