R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
March 24, 2014 1 Comment
5 Brilliant Strategies Jeff Bezos Used To Build The Amazon Empire
DRAKE BAER STRATEGY MAR. 18, 2014, 1:14 AM
The Gazelle Project. That’s what Amazon called its initiative to cajole book publishers into giving them better deals. According to The New Yorker, CEO Jeff Bezos said “that Amazon should approach these small publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.” Read more of this post
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China’s model village wobbles through economic transition
Staff Reporter
2014-03-17
An aerial view of the Huaxi, Oct. 2011. (Photo/Xinhua)
The village of Huaxi in eastern China’s Jiangsu province is losing its luster as the hallmark of the country’s rural economy. Huaxicun Co, a listed firm which runs Huaxi’s commercial operations, has announced pay cuts of up to 15% for its management, including directors, supervisors, and high-level managers, with the exception of independent directors, according to Shanghai’s China Business News. Read more of this post
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China’s $1.5-trillion in corporate debt is yet another shadow-banking time bomb
By Gwynn Guilford @sinoceros March 17, 2014
When it comes to supervising risk, China’s four corporate bond market regulators have been snoozing. Reuters
It’s tough to figure out where China’s next debt panic will come from these days. Just as trust products had surpassed local government-financing vehicles as the frontrunner, a series of events—including a default and a trading suspension—in the last two weeks have pushed corporate bonds to the fore. Read more of this post
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Who will succeed Terry Gou? Foxconn set up a think tank to mull it over
By Lily Kuo @lilkuo 5 hours ago
Foxconn is planning to replace many of its workers with a million robots over the next three years, but replacing chairman and CEO Terry Gou will require a bit more thought. So the world’s largest electronics manufacturer has taken the rather elaborate step of founding a think tank to find Gou’s successor, according to the Taiwanese newspaper Economic Daily News, as reported by Reuters. Read more of this post
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From go to grow: using ‘agile’ management to grow your business
Published 17 March 2014 14:49, Updated 17 March 2014 16:56
Andy Sheats
Health.com.au co-founder Andy Sheats says his organisation uses Agile to drive its whole business, even areas that have nothing to do with technology.
Agile is a management approach that uses short, iterative cycles and direct customer feedback to incrementally develop and improve your product or business. Read more of this post
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Lessons from Nortel: Acquisitions spree, bad management calls led to tech giant’s fall, study says
Jim Bagnall, Postmedia News | March 17, 2014 | Last Updated: Mar 17 5:39 PM ET
OTTAWA — In the five years since Nortel went bankrupt, many possible explanations have been suggested for its demise. Poor strategy, weak finances, low-cost competition from China, a misguided board of directors, hubris, the federal government’s refusal to backstop it during the recession, you name it. Read more of this post
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Amazon’s Set Top Box Will Be A Dongle Like Chromecast, Could Feature OnLive-Style Streaming
Posted 15 hours ago by Darrell Etherington (@drizzled)
Amazon is readying a game console/set top box of its own, and we’ve learned from multiple sources familiar with the device that the Lab126-produced gadget will have a form factor similar to the Chromecast, or in other words it’ll be a stick or dongle as opposed to something like the Apple TV. In addition, one source claims it should have support for streaming full PC game titles, and as such might be able to compete with consoles including the Xbox and PlayStation, instead of just Android-powered living room game devices. Read more of this post
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Inditex quietly grooms cut-price brand for budget battle
2:18am EDT
By Sarah Morris
ARROYOMOLINOS, Spain (Reuters) – At the Xanadu shopping mall in Madrid’s suburbs, the indoor ski slope is busy with children but the designer stores are quiet. In this former mecca for high spenders, discount shop ‘Lefties’ looks like just another post-recession pop-up budget brand. Read more of this post
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A matter of will
What’s more desperately needed is the will of the South and North Korean people for unification.
*The author is a partner at Hwang Mok Park, PC, and former head of the Seoul Central District Court.
By Lee Woo-keun
JoongAng Ilbo, March 17, Page 31
Goguryeo, which defeated the large armies of China’s Sui and Tang dynasties one after another, had stronger military power than Silla. Baekje, with its extensive farming lands, had stronger military power than that of Silla. How was it possible for Silla to unify the three kingdoms? Read more of this post
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NPS emerges as major shareholder for Samsung
2014.03.18 15:20:08
The National Pension Service (NPS) owns over five percent of shares in more than half of 55 firms among South Korean top 10 conglomerates’ affiliates. Read more of this post
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2014-03-17 16:09
SNS services seeking growth drivers
Investors remain bullish over Line IPO, while doubting over Kakao’s profit model
By Kim Yoo-chul
The nation’s top two free mobile messaging app services ― Line by Naver and KakaoTalk by Kakao ― have reached the point where they will decide whether or not to expand territories. Read more of this post
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2014-03-17 18:06
Essilor’s bid to buy lens firm rejected
By Yoon Ja-young
SEJONG CITY ― The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) rejected the takeover of a local glass lens company by Essilor Amera Investment, the biggest player in the global market. This is the first rejection of a corporate takeover since 2009. Read more of this post
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2014-03-17 16:58
Online stores brace for Amazon’s arrival
By Park Ji-won
The nation’s major online stores are diversifying their stock and offering a host of promotional events to strengthen their customer base ahead of the arrival of the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon. Read more of this post
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The Dark Side of Online Discounts
by Karan Girotra | Mar 14, 2014
Companies can profit handsomely from online daily discounts but intermediaries often have conflicting objectives that need to be managed
It’s an age-old problem for many retailers, from movie houses to circuses – how to make a profit in off-peak periods. A restaurant that turns away customers on Saturday night but loses money during lunch on Monday. The opera house hosting a big-name orchestra and superstar diva for a limited engagement, faced with a half-filled house on Tuesday night. The beachfront resort perennially hard up for bookings in early spring or late fall. Read more of this post
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Leadership isn’t an individual act; it’s an ensemble performance
Leaders can only participate if others are being led, so why do most business schools cling to notions of individualism?
Christopher Mowles
Guardian Professional, Monday 17 March 2014 17.08 GMT
Leadership arises in an ensemble performance, writes Christopher Mowles, leaders can only lead in participation with others being led. Photograph: Shamukov Ruslan/ Shamukov Ruslan/ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis Read more of this post
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Rupa Garments: The Inside Story
by Samuel Kim | Mar 18, 2014
Prahlad Rai Agarwala (right), Kunj Bihari Agarwala
Brothers Prahlad Rai and Kunj Bihari Agarwala have constantly moved with the times to make Rupa a leading player in the country’s innerwear business Read more of this post
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Diageo takes on Jack Daniel’s in row over how whiskey can be made
Diageo wants distilleries to be allowed to make Tennessee whiskey in reusable barrels, much to the horror of Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman
Jack Daniel’s stores its whiskey in new barrels made at a Brown-Forman plant Photo: Alamy
By Agencies
7:53PM GMT 17 Mar 2014
If it isn’t fermented in Tennessee from of at least 51pc corn, aged in new charred oak barrels, filtered through maple charcoal and bottled at a minimum of 80 proof, it isn’t Tennessee whiskey. So says a year-old law that resembles almost to the letter the process used to make Jack Daniel’s, the world’s best-known Tennessee whiskey. Read more of this post
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Alibaba is a rare thing – a tech company worth its valuation
Alibaba, whose profits have surged to almost $3bn, looks like the holy grail of the technology market
Jack Ma founded Alibaba in his one-room apartment in Hangzhou
8:47PM GMT 17 Mar 2014
In the sunny sprawl of Silicon Valley, tales of billion dollar companies are familiar. Read more of this post
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Looming property default in China raises fears of broader crisis
Nomura said the number of ghost towns has spread beyond the well-known disaster stories of Ordos and Wenzhou to at least eight other sites
6:51PM GMT 17 Mar 2014
China faces the biggest property default on record as credit curbs threaten to break the housing boom, leaving a string of “ghost towns” across the country. Read more of this post
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EasyArt picture store sets forth from Newhaven to revolutionise access to art
Chairman of site with licence to sell more than 60,000 images from 1,500 artists says the goal is to become ‘the iTunes of art’
The Guardian, Monday 17 March 2014 19.58 GMT
Newhaven may not be seen as the centre of the art world, but the East Sussex town is home to a British business that is hoping to harness the cultural credentials of the Tate galleries to the pop sensibility of 1980s poster shop Athena, powered by technology developed for the Red Bull Formula 1 team. Read more of this post
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Can Design Save Silicon Valley?
by Jules Pieri | 12:00 PM March 17, 2014
The tech titans of Silicon Valley are actively circling the strategic value of design. I didn’t take their interest seriously until I saw the news in December that John Maeda, the former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, joined venerable VC firm Kleiner Perkins. He’s the Valley’s first-ever Design Partner. That’s a serious step into the mover-shaker circle for the design profession. Read more of this post
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The U.S. is relinquishing control of domain names. Here’s why.
March 17, 2014: 2:10 PM ET
The United States has long planned to give up its unique role as steward of the Internet’s domain name system, but it’s unclear what kind of entity will replace it.
By Sam Gustin
The U.S. plan to relinquish stewardship of key technical functions that ensure the Internet runs properly drew praise and criticism over the weekend. If the process goes smoothly, it shouldn’t affect the day-to-day Internet experience for users, but the shift, which was announced Friday by U.S. officials, represents an important development in the evolution of the Internet. Read more of this post
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