Dieck-Assad, Academic at the Heart of Government

Dr. Maria de Lourdes Dieck-Assad is the rector of EGADE, one of Latin America’s leading business schools. It is always worth taking note when business school leaders spend a significant part of their career outside academia. In Dr. Dieck-Assad’s case

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Samir Barua and 36 Years at IIM-A

Prof. Samir Barua’s tenure as Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad will have ended by the time you read this piece. Under his leadership, IIM-A has firmly established itself as one of the world’s leading Business Schools. Prof Barua

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Child Bride Hero Nujood Ali

Divorce can be a traumatic experience – but for a ten year old? Nujood Ali, now a fifteen year old activist opposing forced marriage, obtained a divorce five years ago breaking with tribal tradition in the Yemen. The law allows

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SABIC’s Collaboration with MIT

The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has signed an initial agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, a world leader in scientific research. The agreement paves the way for SABIC and MIT to work together to

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Vladimir Putin Talks About BRICS

BRICS’ relatively new phenomenon attracts increased global attention due to the optimistic predictions about its development, especially against the backdrop of global crisis developments in the world economy. What is BRICS’ immediate and long-term significance for Russia? Is such a

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MENA City Lawyers – MCL: Winners in Lebanon

MCL is an innovative, Pan-Arab Law Firm crossing jurisdictional boundaries and challenging Middle Eastern norms by developing the first professional network of law firms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Each client of MCL receives incomparable local

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The IMF on Prospects for Growth: Latin America & Caribbean

Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to pick up from 3 percent in 2012 to 3½ percent in 2013, supported by stronger external demand, favorable financing conditions, sand the effects of earlier policy easing in some countries,

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Shell: Reduced Crude Oil Theft

Shell’s Nigerian unit says crude oil theft from its facilities in the Niger Delta is reducing, a development he attributed to the surveillance of the Joint Task Force, JTF, set up by the Nigerian Government to check the menace. Shell

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Al-Ghannouchi, Our Hero in Tunisia

Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, 71 years, was co-founder of the Ennahda Movement which is now Tunisia’s largest political party. A philosophy graduate of Damascus University, he moved to Syria following the expulsion of Tunisians from Egypt where he was studying in 1964.

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Strategy & Entrepreneurship from Alice Guilhon

Prof. Alice Guilhon is the dean of Skema the new business school created through the merger of Lille School of Management and Ceram, in Sophia Antipolis, France. Under her leadership Skema has opened campuses on two techno-parks, one in China

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