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Usain Bolt: Nothing Left to Prove?
He has nothing left to prove? Perhaps so, but we identify in Bolt a hunger for continuous improvement. He wants to go on winning and beating his own records. We feel sure that the world will be hearing much more
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Dr. Nawal El Saadawi – An Honourable Life
Like so many of our other heroes, Dr Saadawi has seen the inside of a prison cell because of her views. She was incarcerated in 1981 after helping to publish the feminist magazine Confrontation. The opinions expressed conflicted with those
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Keeping It Simple
For more than two decades DOT COM has been the de facto standard top level domain name for business. One hundred million domain names later the choice of new names is at best limited or at worst involves options that
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Praying for Our Hero, Malala Yousafzai
On Wednesday 10th October this year, surgeons in Pakistan removed a Taliban bullet from the head of our youngest hero – fourteen year old Malala Yousafzai. She was attacked in this way because of her brave response to the atrocities
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Pier Carlo Padoan, OECD: A New Era for the Euro Area
The euro area is entering a new era. The importance of [approval by the German constitutional court of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM)] and the European Central Bank’s (ECB) new Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme set out recently cannot be
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Christine Riordan: Leading Rapid Change
In today’s accelerated business environment, the ability to anticipate and actively lead change on a daily basis is essential for leaders. John Kotter is a well-known expert on how to lead change. He lays out six important areas for effecting
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Azerbaijan FDI
Azerbaijan is a country with wide range of investment opportunities and is undoubtedly one of the most attractive destinations for foreign direct investments (FDI) in the region. There are good opportunities for the development in the following sectors: Agriculture and
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Grant Thornton – China: M&A Due Diligence Pitfalls
By Barry Tong, Partner, Advisory, Grant Thornton Hong Kong Limited To acquire a business is a journey and in the words of Lao Tzu, “…a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” One of the first steps that increases the
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NEPAD: Improving Frontline Healthcare in Africa
Hundreds of millions of women and children have no access to potentially life-saving care with often fatal results. 358,000 women died due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth in the year 2008, with 99 percent of the deaths occurring in
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M&A in Emerging Countries – Tax Risks and Opportunities
The Importance of Taxes in M&A Processes Companies are focusing more and more on the tax aspects of M&A. This focus is partly because tax authorities are scrutinizing transactions more closely than ever before. But this increase concentration is also
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