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At a time when the debate about soaring executive compensation rages on, what is required of our CEOs is to examine the underlying theories driving ...

Mobile-shopping behaviour is fast and impulsive; and, therefore, slowing down the consumer in any way means possibly losing that consumer and any ...

Niccolò Machiavelli tells us to gain and keep the upper hand by any means, that there is no such thing as justice, honour, or integrity, and that ...

Teaching of economics needs to include a more pragmatic approach, says Joseph H. Ellis in ‘ Ahead of the Curve: A commonsense guide to forecasting ...

Sample these startling statistics, cited in ‘ The Cost of Bad Behavior: How incivility is damaging your business and what to do about it' by Christine ...

Sample these startling statistics, cited in The Cost of Bad Behavior: How incivility is damaging your business and what to do about it by Christine ...

Teaching of economics needs to include a more pragmatic approach, says Joseph H. Ellis in ‘Ahead of the Curve: A commonsense guide to forecasting ...

To those who are looking for ‘the distinctive business strategies of leading financial planners,’ a handy reference can be Mary Rowland’s ‘In Search ...

Telecom growth and convergence very much depend on stable and forward-looking regulatory polices which are implemented in tune with technology ...

Stated simply, ‘improvement in road infrastructure' may sound like a drab phrase. But, to farmers in Siay in the Philippines, it meant ‘significant ...

Negotiable warehouse receipts (or NWRs), backed by the underlying commodities, are an integral part of the marketing and financial systems of most ...

If you are looking for a new tax, consider James Pierlot's ‘ Proposal for a Debt-Reduction Tax' or DRT, a paper arguing that tax cuts and spending ...

In a world of half truths, we face the lifelong challenge of telling the whole truth even when it is inconvenient, write John Yates and Susan ...

The foremost reason behind corporate disasters is the ‘shareholder-only approach,' say R. Durgadoss and B. Yerram Raju in ‘ A Saint in the Board Room' ...

Keeping financial markets global while at the same time making them safe requires tighter, better cooperation among countries – not only on financial ...

Taxation is generally seen as a technical task, but it is also fundamentally about the rules of the game that determine, among other things, the level ...

The internet explosion has changed the protocol for creating and maintaining relationships.

Walter Isaacson reveals the emotional, and sometimes unpleasant side of Steve Jobs.

Named after Ralph Nelson Elliott (1871-1948), the ‘Elliott Wave Theory' is that the movement of the stock market can be predicted by observing and ...

Apart from being a brutally honest depiction of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's gripping biography portrays how one of America's most charismatic tech personalities shied away from emotional issues.

What is happening faster than cat videos on YouTube? “Opportunities in corporate social media,” say Nick Smith and Robert Wollan, in The Social ...

A section titled ‘The costs of a fragmented approach' in ‘ Water: Asia's new battleground' by Brahma Chellaney (Harper) frets that the absence of ...

The most stubborn myth in traditional management is probably that the only way to manage costs is through detailed cost budgets, with a tight ...

A sombre concluding thought in ‘Monetary Policy Strategy: Lessons from the Crisis,’ a recent paper by Frederic S. Mishkin, is that we have just been ...