Thought Leadership
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Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild on Reinventing Capitalism
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO of E.L. Rothschild and Co-Chair of the Henry Jackson Initiative for Inclusive Capitalism, believes that capitalism is not a lost cause. It only needs long-term thinking and a more human face
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The Power of Ambition: How Social Entrepreneurs Unleash Human Potential
Ambition moves human beings from wanting to improve their lives to taking the actions to do so. Social entrepreneurs harness that force, creating ventures explicitly designed to help people help themselves
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Growth at Any Price?
When firms are desperate to grow and to please shareholders who demand growth, they take desperate measures such as overpaying for acquisitions and put themselves on the road to long-term hardship
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Why Peace Can Pay
An economist shows how financial innovation can help reduce ethnic violence.
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Great Potential. Great Peril.
Required – a roadmap for risk when investing in emerging markets
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Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
Why do businesses evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, failing to consider the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs, discounting influence of easy grading standards? Francesca Gino and colleagues investigate the phenomenon of the "fundamental attribution error."
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Is There Life After an MBA?
Whatever you expected when you entered the degree programme, it all looks different ten years hence. An INSEAD case study draws lessons on career success and personal fulfillment from the lives and work of the MBA class of 2002
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Analysis: Reputational Risk in the Supply Chain
Firm seeking to avoid supply chain-related risks to its reputation might think the wisest course of action would be to sever ties with producers revealed to be guilty of environmental or social misdeeds
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Should You Build, Borrow or Buy?
Companies that become viable in the long run are the ones that build the ability to have a portfolio of build/borrow/buy activities
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Emerging Market Firms Don't Have a Plan to Create the Next Global Brand. They Have Eight
First Japan. Then South Korea. Which country will be next?