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UN Business Summit Set to Show Globalisation's Bright Side
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: AFP
Publication Year: 2007
The United Nations' biggest ever meeting with business leaders in Geneva next month will present evidence that globalisation is a catalyst for improvement of social and environmental standards, an official said Monday...
Microfinance Misses its Mark
Author: Karnani, Aneel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries. At the same time, governments must hold up their end of the deal, for market-based solutions will never be enough...
A New Era for Business
Authors: Beardsley, Scott; Bonini, Sheila; Mendonca, Lenny; Oppenheim, Jeremy
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
More and more business leaders recognize that their company's future is increasingly intertwined with the needs and demands of society. What many executives don't understand is how best to manage that changing relationship. In this article, McKinsey & Company consultants provide a model for incorporating sociopolitical issues into the strategic decision-making process...
How Companies Spend Their Money: A McKinsey Global Survey
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Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Companies strive for effective resource allocation, but despite the involvement of senior executives and the best of intentions the end results are often decidedly mixed...
Strategic Thinking at the Top
Author: Goldman, Ellen
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
Business schools and others interested in management education and development have vigorously debated how best to teach strategy to future leaders...
Struggling to Save the Planet
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist
Publication Year: 2007
AT MOST summits of the Group of Eight, a club where the leading industrialised democracies, plus Russia, mull over global issues ranging from proliferation to money-laundering, the hosts go to great lengths to insulate the delegates from rowdy protests. Next week's pow-wow, which takes place in the serene 18th-century resort of Heiligendamm on Germany's Baltic coast, is no exception...
Changing Course: The Chrysler Deal, Rising Gas Prices and Other Car Talk
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2007
Cerberus Capital Management bought 80.1% of Chrysler Group from German auto maker Daimler-Chrysler, effectively ending a nine-year marriage between the two that never quite worked out...
The Rich World Can Help Africa
Authors: Denning, Glenn; Sachs, Jeffrey
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Financial Times
Publication Year: 2007
When heads of state from the world's richest countries gather in Heiligendamm, Germany, next week for this year's summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations, they would most benefit the poor in Africa by first looking at what Africa is doing for itself. News from Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, suggests a powerful way forward in the fight against hunger and poverty...
Africa: A Continent with a Huge Potential
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wall Street Journal Online/ G8 Summit 2007 Heiligendamm
Publication Year: 2007
At the moment various forums in Berlin are discussing the future of the African continent. One thing is quite clear – although Africa needs the support of the industrialised nations, the continent offers fantastic economic opportunities. Policy on Africa will thus be high on the agenda of the G8 Summit soon to be held under the German Presidency...
Drying Up and Flooding Out
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist
Publication Year: 2007
Rich countries may be largely to blame for adding climate change to Africa's litany of problems, but the continent's own politicians have yet to take it seriously...
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