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Podcasts:
117: Where are the innovation skills?
116: Cargill: China strategy
According to Dr Roch Doliveux (MBA ‘81J), CEO of UCB, "the issue of access to medicine is an issue surprisingly both in the developed market and in the so-called emerging market, ‘so-called’ because we can’t talk about China, the second largest economy in the world, as emerging. I would say it has emerged already."
114: Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun
113: A view of the Indian landscape
112: Claudia Zeisberger: Private equity in Asia
111: The Big interview: António Horta-Osorio (MBA’91J)
110: Central Bank of Nigeria governor on Africa's growth
109: The pursuit of value
108: The Big Interview: Paul Desmarais Jr, Co-CEO, Power Corporation of Canada
Entrepreneurs need to have plenty of self-confidence and be passionate about their projects – not just when starting up their own businesses but also when innovating within large corporations. “The biggest difference I see between managers and entrepreneurs is that managers analyse a lot and entrepreneurs act a lot,” says INSEAD Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Filipe Santos.
106: MBC: Building a media powerhouse in an emerging market
105: Banking Boards: In Hindsight, A Failure in oversight.
In today's financial meltdown aftermath, the world is asking "who was watching the store?" How were so many smart businesspeople able to ignore what -- in hindsight -- appear to be major signals of impending catastrophy? INSEAD's Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation Ludo Van Der Heyden has created a Corporate Governance Initiative to answer those questions and ensure the same situations don't arise again.
Perhaps no other time in modern history has executive pay come under the microscope. What are these people really worth and how -- with what kinds of tools - do you measure their value? INSEAD Professor of Accounting and Control S. David Young and his colleagues have developed a metric to answer those questions..and it's not just about the bottom line.
