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Why do 50 percent of leaders fail? INSEAD professor Michael Jarrett postulates a "bright side" and a "dark side" to every manager. Executive training may not make a leader out of a follower, but it certainly can make a promising leader better... provided he's willing to put in the effort and take a good long look into his soul. 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. INSEAD is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Asia campus in Singapore. At the recent Leadership Summit in Asia, the school paid tribute to the pioneers and visionaries who had championed the project. Ten years ago, INSEAD opened a campus in Asia and became the first business school to have two fully-fledged campuses with permanent faculty -- one in Europe, the other in Asia. Why do 50 percent of leaders fail? INSEAD professor Michael Jarrett postulates a "bright side" and a "dark side" to every manager. Executive training may not make a leader out of a follower, but it certainly can make a promising leader better... provided he's willing to put in the effort and take a good long look into his soul. Rapid economic growth and an increasing demand for travel should make it easy to make money in the airline business in India. But it's not. One private company explains how it's navigating through the clouds. New research by INSEAD Professor Hal Gregersen sheds light on the innovation process and how firms can tap into it to raise their performance and their share price. Some people are born innovators. Others can become innovators, providing they follow some simple guidelines. That's the thesis of 'The Innovator's DNA', just published by Harvard Business Review Press, by Hal Gregersen, INSEAD Senior Affiliate Professor o 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. 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. 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. Singapore trails Sweden in the 2012 rankings of networked economies published by the Global Information Technology Report. With its robust infrastructure, healthy fundamentals and a progressive government, what's keeping Singapore from taking the top spot Founder and director of Singapore-based Aidha talks to INSEAD Knowledge about helping domestic workers launch their own business and educating thousands more with financial education to take control over their lives. Violent attacks against aid workers has tripled in the last decade. How is the humanitarian logistics industry coping with this? Shortly after the 2004 tsunami, Oxfam International launched a software initiative with other relief organisations, called the HELIOS Project, to improve supply chain management. What role can technology play in humanitarian response? Can the UK government's electricity market reform package do enough to ensure a free flow of investment in the energy industry so that Britain will have enough power and meet its carbon reduction targets within the next ten years? In 2011, US$260 billion was invested worldwide in clean energy. How is the investment landscape for clean energy changing? The Shell view is that the world is going to need 50 percent more energy in 2050 and is going to have to find that with 50 percent less carbon emissions than we've got today. Where are the solutions? There's more than one way to become an entrepreneur: instead of starting your own company, you can go out and buy one. Grants are a vital part of early capital-raising for many social enterprises. But can the distraction in competing for these awards affect the development of the business? Can sharing an idea help take it from the drawing board to the marketplace? Talk may cost nothing but new research indicates it gives an entrepreneur a better chance of success. You'd think that creating a more equitable distribution of wealth would curb the urge to spend on status symbols – be they designer handbags or flat-screen TVs – as the "have-nots" try to keep up with the Jones." But new marketing consumer research sh China's booming luxury goods market means even the fashion industry's flagship publication is working flat out to keep pace. Most start-up companies allocate a hefty budget for advertising and marketing at the beginning, especially when they have lofty goals of capturing market share. But an Indian online travel start-up has proven the unthinkable: you can do it all by word-of- How one CEO took part of a huge Italian industrial complex and turned it into a high-tech healthcare company… Move over, Bollywood. One startup advertising agency is out to hire your directors… Rapid economic growth and an increasing demand for travel should make it easy to make money in the airline business in India. But it's not. One private company explains how it's navigating through the clouds. 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. Spectacular growth, cheap labour, abundant natural resources, pent-up consumer demand – emerging markets have it all! But there is a downside. Iftikhar Ali Syed, group finance director for Dubai's Bin Zayed Group, shares his views with INSEAD Knowledge. With investors turning to art as a place to park their money hoping for high returns, behind-the-scenes, one corporate CEO is keeping tabs on the risks vs. rewards of art as an asset and what it takes to keep the formula from falling apart. |
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