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173: The secret of success: Do your homework! | To err is human but how often do we get it wrong? More often than we realise, according to new research, and the biggest mistake corporations make is not being prepared. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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172: What is our networked readiness? | When the INSEAD/WEF Global Information Technology Report was created 11 years ago, the countries with the most fixed-line telephones were the best-connected in the world. Today, it’s a much different story. | 4/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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171: What’s wrong with banking regulation today? | Indebtedness is both a consumer and a financial industry problem. Regulatory bodies think more banking regulations will fix the problem. INSEAD Professor of Banking and Finance Jean Dermine is not so sure. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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170: Don't make it; buy it! | There’s more than one way to become an entrepreneur: instead of starting your own company, you can go out and buy one. | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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169: Pension reform: Juggling aging and money | The baby-boomer time bomb is set to go off in the next few years, just as both public and private pension providers are trying to cut costs dramatically. Now what? | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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168: Diamonds, discipline and development: Botswana comes of age | Diamonds helped pull Botswana out of poverty and catapulted the country’s economic growth into the double-digits. Where does the land-locked world-class diamond producer go from here? | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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167: Can we stop businesses from behaving badly? | Stakeholders often have conflicting interests, at least in the short run. How do you trade off their welfare and still “do the right thing”? | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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166: Economic recovery: A long road with new horizons | The signs of economic change are all around us, but are they harbingers of something better? INSEAD economics professor Antonio Fatas looks at a world in flux. | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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165: Emerging markets: Are the opportunities worth the challenge? | Spectacular growth, cheap labour, abundant natural resources, pent-up consumer demand -- emerging markets have it all! Now here's the downside... | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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164: When spending hurts | You’d think that creating a more equitable distribution of wealth would curb the urge to spend on status symbols. But new marketing consumer research shows that the people will pay the price to stand out, even if they can’t afford it. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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163: India’s top-performing CEOs | A new INSEAD study reveals the emerging nation’s top-performing CEOs. Who made the list and what earned them top marks? | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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162: Commodities have their heyday: But for how long? | Commodities have been moribund for a century, their prices more a reflection of Mother Nature than demand. Not anymore. Tom Albanese from Rio Tinto tells us why. | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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161: Fortis Healthcare: Moving beyond India | Healthcare needs are almost desperate in many parts of Asia and one company is ambitiously ramping up its services across the region. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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160: Eurozone: State of siege | Could stronger ties between France and Germany get to the heart of what ails the single currency? | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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159: Too much demand, too little space: Chinese VOGUE | China's booming luxury goods market means even the fashion industry's flagship publication is working flat out to keep pace. | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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158: Can you survive today's business world? | Innovation may be the buzz word, but it’s no panacea. Professor Morten Hansen and Jim Collins’ new book “Great by Choice” shows what else you need to stay alive and ahead of the rest. | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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157: Sub-prime mortgages and segregation: What did we gain? | Sub-prime mortgages were supposed to put an end to segregated neighbourhoods by allowing affordable housing to more people. But a new study shows that better access to mortgages leads to more - not less - racial segregation. | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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156: Who cares for society ? | The economic crisis has put most governments on an austerity programme, cutting social benefits at a time when demand for such services is skyrocketing. Enlightened businesspeople can make a difference as social entrepreneurs. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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155: The corruption trap | Emerging markets are where money is to be made: pent up consumer demand, cheap labour, few regulations. But just under the surface lies the murky world of corruption, ready to derail even the most scrupulous businessperson. Now what? | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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154: Handing out some radical Asian philanthropy | Wealthy Asian dynasties are redefining the way they share their gains with the communities that helped them prosper. A new study by INSEAD and UBS reveals for the first time shifting trends in Asian philanthropy. | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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153: Private equity comes of age in China, India and Brazil | Private equity is coming of age in China, India and Brazil. Big potential exists in these large emerging markets, but for how long? | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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152: Mikael Haagstrom of the American Chamber of Commerce on the outlook for Europe | Today's economic crisis is nearly as damaging as past wars have been, but can this crisis foster unity within the EU, and between the EU member states and its long-standing allies? | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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151: What kind of recession is this? | Not since the Great Depression has the world economy seen such a perfect storm of failed policies, rising unemployment and stalled growth. Many use the “R” word … but is that “recovery” or “recession”? | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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150: Is there a place for entrepreneurs in the Arab world? | Emirati entrepreneur Nada al Qassimi discusses the challenges of running an independent business in the UAE. | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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149: M&As in China: do politics still speak louder than money? | A couple of foreign M&A's of Chinese companies look likely to go through. Is it just a chip in the Great Wall of protectionism or a real shift in policy? Veteran Chinese executive and entrepreneur Warren Liu discusses the implications for MNCs in China. | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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148: Leadership: Are you connecting and collaborating? | New research shows that unless you venture beyond your corporate walls, you’ll fall behind the competition. | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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147: How does media coverage affect share prices? Not in the way you think | INSEAD research suggests the best returns come from companies who never make the news. | 8/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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146: The DNA of the World's Most Innovative Companies | Innovation makes millionaires and undermines monopolies. It raises the profitability of companies and puts a premium on the shares of the most successful. But how can companies foster it? | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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145: Too few good women: Why are boards still male domains? | New corporate governance strictures are making way for women on corporate boards. But how to find suitable candidates? And what do women really add to the board room? | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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144: Can Africa unlock its potential? | An interview with Yacoob Abba Omar, South Africa’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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143: Betting on the wind | Gamesa’s CTO discusses its emerging markets expansion, new technologies and the outlook for offshore, and rising competition in the rapidly evolving wind energy sector. | 6/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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142: Surprises in Latin America | There’s one thing about innovation: you never know where you’ll find it. A new report shows that there’s an abundance of innovation in Latin America that more than compensates for the region’s information technology challenges. | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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141: Can you innovate your business model? | Business models help support strategic goals, but too often executives don't inject them with the necessary dose of creativity to bring about real success, according to new research by two INSEAD professors. | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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140: Growing a business with word-of-mouth marketing: the case of iXiGO.com | INSEAD Professor Andrew Stephen on word-of-mouth marketing | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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139: The European Union: One crisis too many? | The arrest of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York is the latest in a long list of assaults on the EU and the Euro. INSEAD political science professor Douglas Webber opines on the status and future of it all. | 5/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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138: When profits are private and losses are public | Thomas Huertas of the Financial Services Authority, regulator of the financial services industry in the UK, is a firm believer that better regulation will avoid a repetition of the recent financial meltdown. | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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137: UK economy: Trimming the fat or incipient anorexia? | When the new government swept into power in the UK, the mandate seemed clear: Get out of debt fast. Now, it's not so easy. | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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136: Can your business plan survive this stress test? | The road to success is littered with the wreckage of strategies gone awry. Here is a six-step stress test for your strategy. | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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135: Who should shoulder the cost of bank bailouts? | INSEAD professor of finance Theo Vermaelen makes a case for his own version of convertible capital as the panacea to government bailouts when banks fail. | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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134: Real estate in the UAE: Moving from speculation to solid value? | Elaine Jones, CEO of Asteco Property Management, assesses the opportunities and impediments for UAE's real estate recovery. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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133: Fast fashion meets luxury labels | Guess which is flush with cash? INSEAD Assistant Professor, Frederic Godart, has some surprising predictions as to which way this lucrative market is heading. | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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132: Global Information Technology Report 2010 - 2011 | INSEAD Professor Soumitra Dutta talks to INSEAD Knowledge Editor-in-Chief Shellie Karabell about this year's Global Information Technology Report findings, and looks back on the ten-year history of the report which he helped found and which he co-authors. | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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131: Why women don't ask | Men ask. Women traditionally don't - simply because being "pushy" could result in negative social consequences, which, for women, tend to be about as important as the material benefits at stake. | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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130: Trouble at the family mill? Call in the Chief Emotional Officer | Family-owned companies need to be run with emotional, as well as professional leadership, experts say. That’s one area where senior family members often have a crucial role to play. | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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129: Will your strategy succeed? | What's one of the best ways to gain market share, defy the vagaries of the economy, and adapt to rapidly advancing technology? Booz and Company's Paul Leinwand talks to Cindy Babski about how to win with a capabilities-driven strategy. | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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128: The art of the deal: Is ethics in the picture? | Can you walk away from the negotiating table with a contract in your pocket and your ethics intact? This is the third and final installment in a series of videos on value negotiation from INSEAD professor Horacio Falcao. | 3/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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127: The next Microsoft: Here's a partial list... | Innovation is flourishing despite a decline in venture capital funding. Silicon Valley veteran Adeo Ressi shares his predictions for life-changing technologies looking for funding. | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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126: Is it too late for ethical banking? | As it turns out, Big Bang - the deregulation of stock markets across Europe back in 1986 - really was an event that shook the world. | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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125: Teaching the spirit of entrepreneurship | Recent MBA graduates describe how INSEAD prepared them to become entrepreneurs - and what they learned once they were out in the field. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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124: Business ideas for social change | -- | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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123: How to make friends and gain influence … by losing employees | Fighting to attract and retain the best talent is still important but letting employees go, even in good times, is also beneficial, says a research team led by INSEAD faculty Andrew Shipilov and Frederic Godart. | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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122: Innovation or imitation in China and India? | How do Asia's emerging giants measure on the innovation scale and can they shake off their reputation for imitation rather than innovation? | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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121: Today’s TV network, tomorrow’s Tudou | Tudou.com is one of those mainland Chinese companies that is growing quickly and has enormous potential, but that you may not have heard of, if you live outside China. One of its internal slogans is “today’s TV network, tomorrow’s Tudou.” | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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120: Bank investments in private equity: an unfair advantage? | A recent study has called into question private equity investments by bank-affiliated PE firms. The study by INSEAD Professor Lily Fang found that between 1983 and 2009, bank-affiliated groups accounted for more than a quarter of all PE investments. | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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119: The gender gap | INSEAD Professor Herminia Ibarra, co-author of the WEF report, throws some light on exactly where different countries stand on the issue of gender equality in the corporate world. | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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118: The ties that bind | -- | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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117: Where are the innovation skills? | -- | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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116: Cargill: China strategy | When it comes to doing business in China, going big may not always be the right answer. For agribusiness giant Cargill, the company has had to adapt its global business model to China's diverse domestic economies. | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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115: Emerging economies in healthcare: catching up or taking the lead? | -- | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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114: Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun | Japan's economy has been in dramatic decline, says INSEAD professor Stewart Black. What's causing its malaise and can we expect a rebound? | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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113: A view of the Indian landscape | Harpal Singh of Fortis Healthcare, one of India's Business patriarchs comments on India's Business landscape. | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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112: Claudia Zeisberger: Private equity in Asia | Asia's private equity star is shining bright yet only one third of global limited partnerships (LP) have allocations to Asia. What does this mean for private equity investors seriously contending with Asia? | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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111: The Big interview: António Horta-Osorio (MBA’91J) | If there's one good thing about an economic crisis, it's the bargains resulting from the fall-out. Good, that is, if you're in a position to buy. And that was exactly the position in which Banco Santander found itself in the UK. | 10/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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110: Central Bank of Nigeria governor on Africa's growth | There is a lot of potential for Africa, but for this to happen, it needs to address a long list of concerns, according to Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor for the Central Bank of Nigeria. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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109: The pursuit of value | INSEAD Professor Horacio Falcao talks about strategies for creating and claiming value in negotiations. | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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108: The Big Interview: Paul Desmarais Jr, Co-CEO, Power Corporation of Canada | Paul Desmarais, Jr, of the Power Corporation of Canada discusses his family's 85-year old company that transformed from providing electric power into a large diversified company engaged in communications, financial services and other businesses. | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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107: Entrepreneurship: the Bootcamp approach | -- | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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106: MBC: Building a media powerhouse in an emerging market | Can Western broadcasters learn anything from the one of the Middle East's most successful satellite channels? According to a recently-released case study by Annet Aris, Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, the answer is yes. | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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105: Banking Boards: In Hindsight, A Failure in oversight. | The banking crisis was due in no small part to a lack of oversight from Boards of Directors. So shows research into the German banking system by INSEAD Associate Professor of Finance Harald Hau. | 9/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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104: Corporate Governance Comes of Age. | -- | 9/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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103: How much is an executive worth? | -- | 8/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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102: ILSE: Joe Saddi, Chairman, Booz & Co | -- | 6/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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101: Is it over yet? Businessmen offer recession insight | Finnish-American Mika Salmi (MBA '92D) is just such a person. The former Viacom president for global digital media (2006-2009) now lives in California and sits on several boards while developing a slew of technology ideas. | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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100: Social responsibility in business today | -- | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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99: Debt overhang, inflation threaten world economy | Pippa Malmgren, a former advisor to US President George W Bush on economics, spoke at a Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI) event at INSEAD in Singapore this week (April 27). She talks here to INSEAD Knowledge about national debt problems | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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98: Philanthrocapitalism: dawn of a new era? | Economist US Business Editor Matthew Bishop talks about how the philanthrocapitalism is changing mindsets in boardrooms, and the role that Grameen Bank's Muhammad Yunus of the microfinance movement has played. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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97: China’s Babytree.com: how it achieved its growth spurt | Just three years after starting up, Babytree.com, a social networking site for parents in China already boasts some 12 million visitors, a mammoth feat by any standards. | 5/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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96: Negotiating to win | INSEAD Professor Horacio Falcao talks about how a Win-Win approach to negotiation trumps a Win-Lose on many levels, and also why we need not go into these negotiations believing it to be a done deal. | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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95: Turning around Tyco: how corporate governance saved the day | -- | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special edition: INSEAD & WEF release Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010 | INSEAD Professor Soumitra Dutta discusses the main findings of the Global Information Technology Report, which is jointly published by INSEAD and the World Economic Forum. | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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94: Inside the world of Sir Martin Sorrell | -- | 3/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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92: Greece's Third Try: Is it Enough? | -- | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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91: Sameer Hajee of Nuru Design | -- | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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90: ILSME: Joe Saddi, chairman of Booz & Co | -- | 2/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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89: Drucker on the ‘bounded goodness’ of corporate social responsibility | -- | 2/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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88: THE GREAT DEBATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE | INSEAD professors Theo Vermaelen and Paul Kleindorfer debate climate change and the implications for businesses post-Copenhagen. | 2/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special edition:OBSERVING THE CRISIS IN HAITI: INSEAD Professors Track Quality of Response | -- | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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87: Visual equity: being front and centre increases sales | INSEAD marketing professor Pierre Chandon argues that how and where products are shelved overrides any marketing and advertising campaign, because location is everything. | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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86: The innovator's DNA | INSEAD professor Hal Gregersen reveals in a new study what key skills are needed to develop innovative and creative entrepreneurs. | 1/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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85: Welcome, ‘Stateholder’ | In light of the amount of government capital injected into the so-called "private economy" since mid-2008, INSEAD Professor Ludo Van der Heyden hails the emergence of the new 'stateholder'. | 12/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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84: The MBA oath debate | INSEAD professors Craig Smith and Theo Vermaelen face off on whether MBA students should take an oath in the first place. | 11/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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83:A new world order: the rise of China and the decline of the West | While many are talking about the notion of a shift in power from West to East, a book by Martin Jacques takes this further by proclaiming that China will not only thrive in the 21st century, but will do so at the expense of the US. | 11/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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82: Viral marketing: tell a woman? | Traditional marketing wisdom has it that if you want to use “word of mouth” you’d better be sure the people doing the talking are knowledgeable about the product. But a large-scale field experiment on viral marketing puts paid to that age-old concep | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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81: In the world of banking, does size matter? | INSEAD banking and finance professor Jean Dermine shares insights from his new book, 'Bank Valuation and Value-Based Management', and the collapse of Lehman Brothers one year later. | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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80:Powering the economic growth engine | INSEAD's Robert Ayres and Ben Warr talk about why we cannot underestimate the importance of energy, as it has become the premier economic driver of growth of today. | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 95 Episodes |
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