R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
April 9, 2014 Leave a comment
Civil Service head Peter Ong says policy makers must be close to the ground
Robin Chan
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE – The Head of the Civil Service wants elite members of the service to be close to the ground so they will not only craft but also execute policies well. Read more of this post
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Icelander goes into currency cyberspace, central bank frowns
Tue, Mar 25 2014
By Robert Robertsson
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Iceland grew a little richer on Tuesday, at least in cyberspace, with the launch of a virtual currency its pseudonymous founder hopes will circumvent the island’s capital controls and eventually replace the crown. Read more of this post
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British cost agency to take broader view of drug value
8:03pm EDT
LONDON (Reuters) – British healthcare cost agency NICE is to take a broader view of the value offered by new medicines under proposals that may make it more likely that it will say “yes” to novel drugs in future. Read more of this post
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How low can you go? This whale is the champion of deep diving
5:14pm EDT
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If there were a gold medal for cetacean diving, it undoubtedly would go to the Cuvier’s beaked whale. Read more of this post
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Exclusive: GM’s new recall risk – the spare parts market
4:19pm EDT
By Ben Klayman, Marilyn Thompson and Julia Edwards
DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As General Motors Co recalls 1.6 million vehicles that have defective ignition switches linked to at least 12 deaths, it faces another potential risk – this time in the spare parts market. Read more of this post
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Cloud-based payroll processor TriNet IPO priced at $16 per share
8:04pm EDT
(Reuters) – Cloud-based payroll processor TriNet Group Inc (TNET.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said it priced its initial public offering at $16 per share, valuing the company at about $1.09 billion. Read more of this post
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Exclusive: U.S. to require casinos to vet high rollers’ funds – sources
3:33pm EDT
By Brett Wolf
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – U.S. casinos may soon have to vet where their high rollers’ funds come from under a requirement being developed by the U.S. Treasury Department, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read more of this post
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Chinese airlines caught in forex crosswinds as Beijing eases grip on yuan
5:03pm EDT
By Fang Yan and Matthew Miller
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese airlines, already grappling with half-empty premier cabins due to Beijing’s austerity drive, will be tested next in their ability to hedge against currency risks as China looks set to allow greater two-way swings in the yuan. Read more of this post
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How Effective Is a Number-crunching Approach to Managing People?
Mar 21, 2014
Human resource professionals have begun to use sophisticated data analysis for all sorts of people-related issues ranging from recruitment and performance evaluation to promotion and compensation. People analytics, as this approach is called, is making waves because it is said to eliminate biases that exist in human judgment. Cade Massey, practice professor of operations and information management at Wharton, works at the intersection of psychology and economics and has focused on this approach. His expertise is judgment under uncertainty, looking at optimism, overconfidence and learning. Massey’s research is based on both laboratory experiments and archival studies of real-world behavior, such as the draft picks of professional football teams and the investment decisions of employees holding stock options. Read more of this post
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Why ‘Incomplete’ Products Increase Consumption
Mar 20, 2014
Barbara E. Kahn, professor of marketing and director of the Jay .H. Baker Retailing Center, is the chair of the Retail and Consumer Goods Summit, a conference that Knowledge@Wharton is organizing in collaboration with the Baker Retailing Center on April 28 and 29 in New York City. Her research interests include consumer choice, variety seeking, product assortments, brand management and retailing. Read more of this post
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What Counts at China’s Banks
AARON BACK
March 26, 2014 9:02 a.m. ET
China’s widely loathed bank shares got a boost after one of the biggest state-owned lenders reported decent earnings. But a sustained rally won’t be possible until transparency improves. Read more of this post
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Mar 26, 2014
China’s Long Road to Shale-Gas Boom
Eric Yep
The development of China’s shale-gas industry has moved forward over the past year, but far more remains to be done than has been accomplished if the nation’s ambitious production targets are to be met, according to executives attending an energy conference here. Read more of this post
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A day’s work for 500 million won?
Mar 26,2014
A former corporate kingpin who used to run the largest business group in Gwangju and South Jeolla before the conglomerate fell apart in 2010 returned to Korea over the weekend to comply with a local court order to work off his massive fines. The former chairman fled to New Zealand to dodge hefty fines after he was convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion. Read more of this post
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Zhejiang Xingrun’s collapse highlights property sector risk
Xinhua
2014-03-26
The insolvency of a property developer in east China’s Zhejiang province has shed light on the risk in the country’s formerly red-hot real estate sector. Read more of this post
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03.21.2014 15:45
Cracks Appear as Shanxi Steel Firm Builds Up Big Debt
Highsee Iron and Steel Group could be up to 20 billion yuan in the red, and owe as much as 3 billion yuan to Minsheng Bank Read more of this post
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03.26.2014 18:43
AliPay’s ‘Closed System’ Is Biggest Reason for Regulatory Action, Expert Says
Too much money is moving around out of PBOC’s sight, economist says, and a problem would affect large number of people Read more of this post
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S. Korea ‘bureaucracy risk’ derails economic innovation
2014.03.26 17:51:09
The ‘bureaucracy risk’ is re-surfacing in South Korea. President Park Geun-hye continues to call for a three-year economic innovation plan and regulation reform, but civil servants at the central and local governments who are in charge of implementing such plan and reform still remain mired in outdated practices. Read more of this post
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BUILDING THE NEXT PIXAR
Some of Pixar’s most illustrious alums, steeped for decades in Pixar’s potent creative culture, reveal how they apply the company’s philosophies of success to their own ventures–and you can, too. Read more of this post
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Jessica Gardner Reporter
G8 Education breaks its own rules to buy 91 childcare centres
Published 25 March 2014 12:53, Updated 26 March 2014 10:55
Childcare operator G8 Education has broken its own rules on how much it is willing to pay for new centres, buying 91 from Sterling Early Education for $228 million, just a week after Sterling’s float was pulled. Read more of this post
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Report: Researchers Are Becoming Too Obsessed with Chasing Pageviews
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March 21, 2014 // 04:10 PM EST
An urge to publish in one of several high profile academic journals is causing a “mania” that has caused scientists to focus on publishing newsworthy studiesinstead of focusing on doing good science, according to a new paper. Read more of this post
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France’s Greatest Strength Might Just Be Leaving France
Posted 17 hours ago by Romain Dillet (@romaindillet)
“The attraction of the American revolution transported me suddenly to my place. I felt myself tranquil only when sailing between the continent whose powers I had braved.”
—Lafayette, Letter to the Bailli de Ploën. Read more of this post
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Amazon’s core “strength” may actually be its biggest weakness
BY KEVIN KELLEHER
ON MARCH 25, 2014
A lot of things seem to be going Amazon’s way these days. It boasts the best-selling e-reader, two-thirds of the ebook market, a foothold in the tablet market, a growing library of video titles (including home-brewed programs), and, possibly in the future, a smartphone and a music-subscription service. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of Amazon Web Services customers. Read more of this post
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Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired
BY MARK AMES
ON MARCH 25, 2014
In early March, 2007, as Google was expanding fast and furiously, one of its recruiters from the “Google.com Engineering” group made a career-ending mistake: She cold-contacted an Apple engineer by email, violating the secret and illegal non-solicitation compact that her boss, Eric Schmidt, had agreed with Apple’s Steve Jobs. Read more of this post
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With Oculus purchase, Facebook chokes VR innovation in the womb
BY JAMES ROBINSON
ON MARCH 25, 2014
For most of us, there’s no good news in Facebook’s $2 billion purchase of Oculus. Mark Zuckerberg can crow all he wants about buying up tomorrow’s platforms, Oculus executives and investors can preen – entirely justifiably – over their glorious financial exit, but the rest of us are left watching the same horror show on repeat. Tech giants opening up their checkbook and buying the competition, willing to gut entire markets before they’ve even got started. Read more of this post
April 8, 2014 Leave a comment
Quicken Loans’ billion-dollar gamble pays off
Mar. 25, 2014 |
Quicken and Warren Buffett are offering a Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket with Yahoo Sports for this year’s NCAA perfect bracket. / Quicken Read more of this post
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3:33am EDT
By John Ruwitch
YANCHENG, China (Reuters) – Rural banks in China’s eastern city of Yancheng stacked piles of cash in plain view behind teller windows to calm depositors queuing at bank branches for a third straight day on Wednesday following rumors that they had run out of cash. Read more of this post
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ROBERT SKIDELSKY
Robert Skidelsky, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University and a fellow of the British Academy in history and economics, is a member of the British House of Lords. The author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, he began his political career in the Labour party, became the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords, and was eventually forced out of the Conservative Party for his opposition to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999. Read more of this post
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Buy a Warren Buffett Fathead for $29.99
Proceeds will go to charity
Author: By Chris Isidore
Published On: Mar 25 2014 06:23:35 AM PDT Updated On: Mar 25 2014 07:50:38 AM PDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Investors have been known to pay $1 million for the chance to pick Warren Buffett’s brain over lunch. Now they can get his entire head for only $29.99. Read more of this post
April 8, 2014 Leave a comment
Facebook Inc’s purchase of Oculus raises questions
Jonathan Ratner | March 26, 2014 5:34 AM ET
Facebook Inc.’s US$2-billion acquisition of Oculus VR may look modest when compared to its recent US$19-billion purchase of WhatsApp, but there appears to be a clearer path for monetizing this new asset through game-related software and hardware. Read more of this post
April 8, 2014 Leave a comment
Nitroglycerin, a Staple of Emergency Rooms, Is in Short Supply
By KATIE THOMAS and SABRINA TAVERNISEMARCH 25, 2014
Dr. Frederick Blum, at Ruby Memorial Hospital in West Virginia, says one or two patients might “exhaust our supply pretty quickly.” CreditTy William Wright for The New York Times Read more of this post
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