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The turmoil in Argentina and the collapse of the ten-year link between the peso and the dollar has revived the debate about currency regimes for emerging-market economies. Was Argentina wrong to adopt the link in the first place, or wrong to try so hard and so fruitlessly to maintain it?

Content: Article | Source: The Economist | Subjects: Economics, International

There are several senior positions you can hold without any formal qualifications – senior manager, parent and prime minister, for example. You can also be a company director without undergoing any real training. In the UK, however, a growing number of senior executives are submitting themselves to an exhausting and rigorous process which allows them to call themselves chartered directors. The Institute of Directors, which … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Michael Skapinker | Source: Financial Times | Subjects: Corporate Governance, International – Europe

Home of the Report on Readiness for the Future Index, designed to to provide a comprehensive framework for evaluating how well European societies are placed to meet the challenges brought about by the new millennium.

Editor’s Note: The GLTs are young but proven leaders from business, politics, the arts and civil society committed to improving the state of the world. 100 new GLTs are selected every … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: World Economic Forum | Subjects: Economics, International – Europe

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A new Index going beyond narrow economic issues has been compiled to assess to what extent countries are prepared for the 21st century. This article explains the thinking behind the initiative – on the next two pages two experts give their reactions..

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Content: Article | Author: Cansen Basaran-Symes | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: International – Europe

Originally published in 1982, this classic guide to the inner workings of the strategic thinking process offers provocative insights into the ways that the Japanese think strategically and focuses on helping western business people free up their creative power to improve the odds of creating winning strategic concepts.

Content: Book | Author: Kenichi Ohmae | Subjects: International – Asia, Strategy

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Seen as a panacea for limited growth prospects at home, recent European takeovers of US firms are encountering management problems. CEOs should be wary of the pitfalls.

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Content: Article | Author: Eric Uhlfelder | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: International – Europe

Power dynamics can make an authoritarian system very successful but also vulnerable and insecure. In vying for international prestige Chinese statesmen are pursuing a set of targets they believe will boost the country’s future growth and glory. But there are reputational risks of which all leaders should be aware.

Content: Article | Author: Kai-Alexander Schlevogt | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: International – Asia

Clashing regulations make cross-border business difficult in Europe.

Content: Article | Authors: Christine Tierney, David Fairlamb | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International – Europe

Popular voices against international capitalism have become increasingly strident. The other side of the case – notably the positive social and economic impact of globalisation – deserves to be heard.

Content: Article | Author: Jean-Jacques Lambin | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: International, Social Responsibility (ESG)

India’s gross domestic product is growing by an impressive 6 percent a year. But research by the McKinsey Global Institute has uncovered three barriers preventing the country’s GDP from growing even faster: myriad regulations governing products and markets, distortions in the market for land, and widespread government ownership of business. Thirteen policy measures could remove these barriers, allowing the economy to grow by 10 percent … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Amadeo M. Di Lodovico, Shirish Sankhe, Vincent Palmade, William W. Lewis | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia

For most Western observers, state-owned companies are wasteful white elephants while private enterprise sets the standard for efficiency. A look at China’s large public sector giants, however, tells a different story, according to Wharton management professor Marshall Meyer. Even China’s entry into the World Trade Organization later this year or early in 2002 will not eradicate state ownership of major Chinese companies. Meyer shares the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: International – Asia

Family-owned businesses are the backbone of the economies of Latin America and of most other emerging markets. But many such businesses are finding it hard to compete with the global scale, focused strategies, cutting-edge management practices, and deep pockets of multinational companies. The take-away: To survive and thrive, family-owned businesses need governance models that can prevent family squabbles from spilling over into the business while … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Heinz-Peter Elstrodt, Jose M. Barra, Luis F. Andrade | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: International – Americas

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Paul Gooderham and Odd Nordhaug gained fresh insights into the preferences of European business school students relating to their choice of job, employer and industry.

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Content: Article | Authors: Odd Nordhaug, Paul Gooderham | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Career, International – Europe

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America’s economic growth is driven by population growth, which is expanding rapidly because of immigration. European populations are stagnating — they are becoming gentrified. One of Japan’s biggest problems is that its population is shrinking and graying. That’s what’s making its economic decline so difficult to repair.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Economics, International

“Justpeople is an online headhunting service that allows employers to find and hire talented candidates.

In an online market swamped with ‘job boards’, Justpeople enables employers and candidates to find each other without the need for adverts. Nor does an employer need to trawl through a raft of CVs to find suitable interviewees.

The system works through a unique search facility that matches an employer’s criteria … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Subjects: International, Jobs – Listing Services

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