SMEs Embrace the Bond Markets
TweetAugust 7, 2012TweetIn the old days, the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) would simply unveil a flashy business plan in front of a group of bankers and all would nod in agreement...
View ArticleGet a Little Help From Your Friends
TweetFebruary 4, 2013TweetIn the U.K., despite record low interest rates and the biggest bout of quantitative easing of any of the main developed economies, many SMEs are finding it hard to raise...
View ArticleAnalyst Forecasts: How to Read Between the Lines
TweetFebruary 7, 2013TweetAnalyst A covers technology; he always reports true earnings for his companies but consistently subtracts three cents from his forecast for the bottom line or EPS. Analyst B...
View ArticleINSEAD Professors’ Fund Ranked Number One
TweetSeptember 7, 2012TweetThe recent rise of the Dow to its highest level since 2007 and climb in the S&P 500 to a 5-year high have raised questions over valuations. The current Price-to-Earnings...
View ArticleOrdering off the Menu: Entrepreneurship Arab-Style
TweetMarch 7, 2013Tweet“I don’t know if anyone isn’t afraid of failing,” Fadi Ghandour, founder and recently departed CEO of transport and logistics company, Aramex International, surmises when asked...
View ArticleClicks versus Bricks: The Battle for the High Street
TweetApril 2, 2013TweetThe U.K. High Street has always played a vital role as a barometer of the nation’s cultural and economic health. With a record number of national chains going to the wall, high...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Brand?
TweetApril 2, 2013TweetImpeccably accurate timepieces are perhaps the essence of Switzerland. A Swiss Made watch evokes a concept of quality, a reputation that has taken nearly 500 years to build. Not...
View ArticleRisky Business: How Admiral Captured the U.K. Car Insurance Market
TweetJune 26, 2013TweetMost executives prefer to minimise risk. So it seems ironic that the Admiral Group would spend so much of its time looking for “underserved” motorists: typically city-dwelling...
View ArticleGood News Can Explain Why Today’s Market is Not A Bubble in the Making
TweetSeptember 14, 2012TweetA popular explanation for the recent stock market rally is that because investors earn low rates of returns on deposits, they will buy stocks to get a higher “yield”. This...
View ArticleIs Feminine Perfection Still Good for Sales?
TweetAugust 17, 2012TweetMarketing executives have long relied on the idealised female image, usually in the form of a celebrity or model embracing a product or draping themselves across it, in the...
View ArticlePreventing a Run on the Bank
TweetJuly 3, 2013TweetThere have been very few pictures of people lining up outside of banks waiting to withdraw their money during recent financial crises. Deposit insurance and interventions by...
View ArticleInfosys at the Crossroads
TweetJuly 17, 2013TweetOnce upon a time, in a country named India, six young men armed with US$250, garage space, and lofty dreams, resigned from their full-time jobs at Patni Computer Systems to...
View ArticleLuxury: Catering to the Super-Wealthy
TweetAugust 31, 2012TweetLuxury companies have been devoting much of their marketing budgets to stoking aspiration in middle-class consumers.
View ArticleJust who are the Very Rich Consumers?
TweetJuly 31, 2013Tweet“Ultra High Net Worth Individuals” or UHNWIs are people or families with more than $30 million in assets aside from their primary residence. But that is about all we know about...
View ArticleIn-Store Cameras: From Security Aids to Sales Tools
TweetJuly 30, 2013TweetWhile traditional businesses still account for 95 percent of retail transactions, online sales are growing at four times their rate (according to 2012 U.S. Census data) due in no...
View ArticleHow Should Multinationals Be Taxed?
TweetAugust 20, 2013TweetGovernments want to reform international tax rules that enable multinationals to avoid taxes by booking profits earned on “intangibles” through low-tax or no-tax jurisdictions,...
View ArticleComment: How Should Multinationals Be Taxed?
TweetAugust 7, 2012TweetThe people interviewed in the recent INSEAD Knowledge piece How Should Multinationals Be Taxed are disproportionally representatives of the political left: two socialist...
View ArticleSports Defeat Can Make You Fat
TweetAugust 28, 2013TweetThe thrill of seeing your sports team enter the field on a Sunday night, the anticipation and hope of victory and the nail-biting jostling for supremacy all incite passion in...
View ArticleJourneying to Luxury's New Frontiers
September 16, 2013TweetTweetThis article was originally published in South China Morning Post.With a double-digit growth and global revenues approaching US$250 billion, the future of luxury industries...
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