Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 18 Feb (Wed) – Vincent Van Gogh: Superstar Of The Year; Comparisons With Others Can Obscure Our Own Goals
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Life
- Comparisons With Others Can Obscure Our Own Goals: NYT
- Vincent Van Gogh: Superstar Of The Year: Forbes
- Everything You Need to Know About Becoming a Better Listener: HBR
- The Mistake Companies Make When Marketing to Different Cultures: HBR
- Experts Brainstorm Ways to Fund Cities to Withstand Disasters: JG
- How to Find a Best Friend; It is harder for children to form lasting friendships; rising screen time and lots of activities get in the way: WSJ
- Unfriendly Persuasion by CFOs Could Spur Faulty Audits; Caught between the need to serve clients and the requirement to be skeptical of them, auditors may stint on audit quality. CFO
Investing Process
- How to Tell if a CEO Is Lying: A new approach to financial analysis measures executive evasion and candor to gauge a company’s outlook: II
- The “Oracle of Omaha’s” investment vehicle picked up a stake in 21st Century Fox and ditched all of its Exxon Mobil shares. Fortune
Greater China
- Hanergy’s Li taps shadow lenders to fund group’s startling growth: FT
- Western executives should speak truth to Chinese power; Better governance and greater transparency would be a good target: FT
- China’s Churning Out Billionaires Like It’s 1999: Bloomberg
- China Considering Mergers Among Its Big State Oil Companies; Beijing’s Step Back With Big Oil: Merging China’s National Oil Companies Would Be Retrograde Move: WSJ1, WSJ2
- Public corruption in China: Then and now: SCMP
India
- It’s Time for Modi to Live Up to His Promises; India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spent his first nine months in office on basic reforms, but there’ve yet to be any sweeping changes: WSJ
- Is India Really Growing Faster Than China?: WSJ
Japan & Korea
- Firing Up Japan’s Scrappy Steelmaker: WSJ
ASEAN
- Are Indonesia’s Years of Living Dangerously Over? Investors like Jokowi’s reform agenda but they shouldn’t forget the nation’s past financial missteps: Barron’s
- Half of Harley Motorcycles in Indonesia Are Said to Be Illegal: JG
- More Doubts Are Cast Over Jokowi’s Promise to Fight Corruption: JG
- Editorial: Dearth of Leadership From President Jokowi: JG
- In Indian Graft Battle, Some Lessons for Indonesia’s President; Joko Widodo may not have heard of Arvind Kejriwal at all but no doubt he would envy his position as head of his own political party: JG
- KPK vs Polri: Children of light and children of darkness: JP
- Future of NOL sinks deeper into doubt: BT
Macro
- Swiss prosecutor raids HSBC premises: FT
- DuPont Says Trian Bases Fight on ‘Myths’; CEO Kullman says Trian proxy fight ‘based on misrepresentations, inaccurate data, and flawed analyses’: WSJ
- Retirement-Account Standards May Tighten: Brokers Would Have to Put Clients’ Interests First: WSJ
- David Tepper Dumps 40% Of US Equity Exposure Despite Claiming “Stocks Inexpensive”: Zerohedge
- Emerging fund managers stuck in buy-and-hold as trading shrivels: Reuters
TMT
- Marc Andreessen’s plan for fostering more “Unicorn” startups: Pando
- It’s ‘Silicon Valley vs. Motor City’: Bloomberg
- GoPro CIO Prepares to Rein in Rogue IT: WSJ
- At GM, Internet Ordering Required a Massive Overhaul; Auto maker spent years building internal systems expertise to allow customers to shop online: WSJ
- Bosch CEO: Tech industry interlopers force car industry to react: Reuters
Energy & Commodities
- How will the oil crash affect Norway? FT
- Big Investors Make Big Bets For and Against Energy; Buffett, Soros Sell Off Exxon Mobil Stakes: WSJ
- Milking New Zealand’s Way of Life: WSJ
Consumer & Others
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