R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
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Updated: Thursday March 13, 2014 MYT 12:22:28 PM
Tech takes on autopsies
(From left) Mathavan and iGene Forensic Scientist Dr Nor Amira Ismail look on as iGene Medical Research Scientist Dr Hemanth S. Naik demonstrates how a digital autopsy is done. Read more of this post
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Baltic Dry Plunges 8%, Near Most In 6 Years As Iron Ore At Chinese Ports Hits All Time High
Tyler Durden on 03/12/2014 16:34 -0400
It would appear record inventories of Iron ore and plunging prices due to China’s shadow-banking unwind have started to weigh on the all-too-important-when-it-is-going-up-but-let’s-blame-supply-when-dropping Baltic Dry Index. With the worst start to a year in over a decade, the recent recovery in prices provided faint hope that the worst of the global trade collapse was over… however, today’s 8% plunge – on par with the biggest drops in the last 6 years – suggests things are far from self-sustaining. Still think we are insulated from the arcane China shadow-banking system, which suddenly everyone is an expert of suddenly? Think again. Read more of this post
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March 12, 2014 5:07 pm
Strong demand for ‘junk’ bonds erodes investor protection
By Tracy Alloway and Vivianne Rodrigues in New York
Insatiable investor demand for higher yielding securities has helped push protection for buyers of junk-rated bonds to its lowest level on record, the rating agency Moody’s has warned. Read more of this post
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March 12, 2014 10:39 am
Active fund managers are closet index huggers
By John Authers
Study finds ‘closet indexing’ is rife in US active funds
How active is your fund manager, and what chance do they really have of beating the market? Read more of this post
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March 13, 2014 12:01 am
Technology research centres face entrepreneurial scrutiny
By Tanya Powley, Manufacturing Correspondent
The business secretary has asked a serial entrepreneur to examine government-backed technology centres that were launched in 2011 to solve the difficulty Britain has long had in commercialising scientific breakthroughs. Read more of this post
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March 12, 2014 6:40 pm
African banks: Fragile dream
By William Wallis
An institution created to embody stability and unity came close to failure. A new chief could provide a second chance
For nine months, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated was creeping towards disaster. Depositors were taking fright. The stock price was dipping. A stream of internal letters warned the bank and the decades-old dream of building a pan-African rival to Barclays or Citibank was at risk of collapse. Read more of this post
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King’s Realm Spans Across Continents
Candy Crush Maker’s Global Footprint Helps It Navigate Web of Patent, Tax and Regulatory Issues
AMIR MIZROCH
March 12, 2014 1:56 p.m. ET
LONDON—It’s good to be King, but the road to the throne can be complicated.
Game maker King Digital Entertainment PLC is planning to start trading this month on the New York Stock Exchange—valuing itself Wednesday at as much as $7.6 billion after it set a price range for its initial public offering. Read more of this post
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Lego to build on movie success, tackle globalisation challenge
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 – 15:19
AFP
BILLUND, Denmark – With record sales and a hit movie expected to propel them further, Lego could be expected to bask in its successful turnaround, but the Danish maker of colourful toy blocks is pressing ahead to face the challenges of globalisation. Read more of this post
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Will costs erode Singapore’s edge?
Thursday, March 13, 2014 – 09:00
Alvin Foo
Economics Correspondent
The Straits Times
LAST week, Singapore captured headlines at home and abroad for an unsettling reason: It was named the world’s most expensive city by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Read more of this post
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Doctors defy South Korean President’s warning
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 – 09:27
Lee Hyun-jeong
The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
SEOUL – Concerns about the country’s health services are growing as doctors plan to launch further industrial action later this month, despite stern warnings from the government. Read more of this post
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China’s ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Trap
Beijing’s unmet promises to Hong Kong are a lesson for Taiwan.
Updated March 12, 2014 6:23 p.m. ET
The recent stabbing of government critic Kevin Lau is horrible enough for the people of Hong Kong. But it is also damaging to Beijing’s efforts to convince the people of Taiwan to support official negotiations aimed at eventual reunification with mainland China. Read more of this post
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China’s Quiet Lehman Moment
A solar-power company’s default makes investors reconsider assumptions about the government.
JOSEPH STERNBERG
Updated March 12, 2014 7:09 p.m. ET
The default of Shanghai Chaori Solar Energy Science & Technology Co. last week set off speculation that China has reached its “Bear Stearns moment.” This is the first time a domestic bond has been allowed to default. Economists at Bank of America suggested that it will leave investors queasy about unsustainable debt levels, much as news in 2007 of mortgage-related losses at two Bear Stearns hedge funds triggered doubts about the U.S. housing market. Read more of this post
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Revenue Gets Rich Price Tag in IPOs
Small Firms With Small Sales Seeing Lofty Valuations; Castlight Health Offering to Test Appetites
MATT JARZEMSKY And TELIS DEMOS
March 12, 2014 9:13 p.m. ET
The bull market for initial public offerings of small companies with scant sales is about to get a check-up. Read more of this post
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Soong Ching Ling, the woman behind Sun Yat Sen
Thursday, March 13, 2014 – 06:30
Lisabel Ting
The Straits Times
Behind every successful man is a strong woman, and founding father of the Republic of China, Sun Yat Sen was no exception. Read more of this post
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How to Boost Efficiency in Asset-Intensive Industries: Flex in Operations
by Christian Greiser, Roland Haslehner, Alexander Wachtmeister, and Tobias Streicher
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
Continued sluggishness in the global economy is putting special pressure on companies in asset-intensive industries. These companies are operating well below capacity, and the weak demand has prevented them from passing on the full costs of raw materials and energy, for which prices remain stubbornly high. Read more of this post
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Seven Ways to Profit from Big Data as a Business
by James Platt, Robert Souza, Enrique Checa, and Ravi Chabaldas
MARCH 05, 2014
Information is multiplying inside businesses at an exponential rate, generated by sensors, social media, transactions, smartphones, and other sources. Companies increasingly want to tap into the potential of these vast, fast-moving, complex streams of data to achieve step-change improvements in performance. But executives would be wise to consider whether the information they collect could do even more than boost performance. In fact, big data can generate billions of dollars in additional revenues that can go toward fueling growth. Read more of this post
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Surviving the Sophomore Slump: The Moves That Matter Most
A Leadership Study from The Boston Consulting Group and Spencer Stuart
by Roselinde Torres, Judy Johnson, James M. Citrin, and Susan S. Hart
MARCH 10, 2014
Leadership churn in large companies has intensified over the past decade1. CEOs are particularly vulnerable during their second year of tenure. The proportion of CEOs who leave office for “year 2 performance reasons” is strikingly high. It’s a time that could be called “the sophomore slump,” when stakeholders lower their threshold of tolerance and when CEOs themselves might feel their ambitious vision being thwarted and may grow dejected at the slow pace of change in the organization. Read more of this post
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Gauging the Chinese Threat to European Machinery Makers: A German Perspective on the New Competitive Landscape
by Ralf Moldenhauer, Nikolaus Lang, Florian Bonanati, and Jan Schönfeld
MARCH 12, 2014
The competitive landscape for European machinery manufacturers—makers of traditional machinery (such as engines and turbines) as well as optical products and electronics—is changing rapidly. Chinese challengers are increasing their presence in developed markets and growing their businesses throughout the value chain. Once dismissed as low-end upstarts, Chinese machinery makers have built up their capabilities and now compete head-to-head with multinational companies on their home turf as well as in emerging markets. Read more of this post
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Kohlberg looking to sell Singer sewing machine company – sources
3:51pm EDT
By Olivia Oran
(Reuters) – The Singer sewing machine company, largely credited with helping develop the U.S. fashion industry by allowing clothes to be made more cheaply and efficiently, is exploring a sale that could fetch more than $500 million, three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Read more of this post
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Switzerland’s Jacobs family cuts Adecco holding
2:37pm EDT
By Freya Berry
LONDON (Reuters) – The Jacobs group said it is to sell a 16 percent stake in Adecco (ADEN.VX: Quote, Profile,Research, Stock Buzz), the world’s largest staffing agency, as members of the Jacobs family seek to diversify by cutting their holdings in the company they helped found. Read more of this post
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Anil Agarwal on Simplicity and Determination at Vedanta Resources
An Interview with the Executive Chairman
MARCH 06, 2014
Anil Agarwal left his home in Bihar in northern India to seek his fortune in Mumbai in the 1970s. Armed with a high school education and boundless determination, Agarwal started out as a scrap-metal dealer. Today his Vedanta Resources is a global mining and metals company, the largest producer of zinc, the second-largest producer of cooper, and an active competitor in oil and gas and power generation. Read more of this post
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Natura’s Alessandro Carlucci on Countering Complexity with Culture
An Interview with the CEO
MARCH 06, 2014
Chief executive Alessandro Carlucci joined Natura nearly a quarter century ago, when the Brazilian cosmetics company was small, entrepreneurial, and still run by its founders. Today, the company has nearly 7,000 employees, a direct sales force of 1.5 million beauty consultants, a strong presence throughout cosmetics-crazy Latin America, and annual sales approaching $3 billion. Read more of this post
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Alibaba’s Tsai says will ‘never’ change partnership structure for Hong Kong IPO
10:51am EDT
By Paul Carsten and Anne Marie Roantree
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Alibaba Group Holding (IPO-ALIB.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will not change its partnership structure in order to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange, Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Read more of this post
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Standard Chartered’s Jaspal Bindra on the Human Face of Complexity
An Interview with the Asia Group Executive Director
MARCH 06, 2014
Asia is a complex region, home to more than 4 billion people, dozens of countries ranging from among the wealthiest to the poorest in the world, and myriad languages and ethnic groups. Banking is an equally complex undertaking, especially with the regulatory and public scrutiny brought on by the global financial crisis more than five years ago. Read more of this post
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Agco’s Martin Richenhagen on Cutting Through Clutter
An Interview with the Chairman, CEO, and President
MARCH 06, 2014
Agco was a study in complexity in 2004, when Martin Richenhagen joined the global agricultural-equipment manufacturer as chief executive. The result of multiple acquisitions, the company was officially created in a 1990 management buyout of Deutz Allis Corporation from its German parent. Read more of this post
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How P&G Moved Up the Brand Arc to Win a Gold Medal at Sochi
Mar 07, 2014
Along with athletes, brand marketers also competed for attention at the recent winter Olympic Games in Sochi — and by many accounts, Procter & Gamble’s “Thank you, Mom” campaign came out on top. Eric Solomon, head of the strategy and insights for ZOO, the creative team at Google that works with firms to build their brands, explains how other companies can learn from the experience of P&G and other firms to build emotional connections with their customers. Read more of this post
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The Opportunities — and Pitfalls — for Non-resident Indian Entrepreneurs
Mar 07, 2014
Some 25 million people of Indian origin do not live in India, according to the country’s ministry of overseas affairs. The Indian government recognizes them as People of Indian Origin (PIO). A high-profile subset of this group (though, strictly speaking, it is a classification for tax status) is the Non-resident Indian (NRI), which is loosely considered to mean Indians who have emigrated in recent times. Their ranks include many highly successful scientists, entrepreneurs and corporate executives, including PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit and Google chief business officer Nikesh Arora. Read more of this post
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The Prime Minister of Malaysia on Balancing People and Performance
An Interview with Najib Razak
MARCH 06, 2014
Malaysia is a diverse nation with ambitious economic aspirations. Najib Razak, the country’s prime minister since 2009 and a public servant since the mid-1970s, has been working both to move and to advance Malaysia. Najib sees the two goals as inseparable: progress must benefit all slices of Malaysian society and all regions, he contends, if it is to be sustainable. Read more of this post
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Using Incentives to Calibrate a CEO’s ‘Risk Appetite’
Mar 10, 2014
The issue of CEO pay and how to compensate managers in a way that encourages the “right” amount — and type — of risk to grow a company and protect stakeholder interests has garnered a significant amount of debate. Many executive pay packages include incentives that tie compensation to a firm’s performance, often through the use of stock options. But a number of research studies have found that if a manager’s wealth is tied to share price, he or she may be more likely to misreport financial data. Read more of this post
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Conversations with Leaders About Thriving amid Uncertainty
Leading in a Complex World
by Christian Orglmeister, Grant Freeland, and Roselinde Torres
MARCH 11, 2014
Globalization, technology, and rapid change are creating a more complex world. Corporate leaders are operating in more markets than ever before. Their companies are generating and dealing with more data than ever. Social media are amplifying the effects of customer complaints and internal discussions, creating a greater need for open, honest, and multichannel communications. Executives are interacting with a widening array of stakeholders and addressing an expanding set of business, political, and social issues. Public leaders are facing analogous pressures. Read more of this post
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