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Lockheed Martin President and CEO Jim Taiclet: Next-Generation Battlefield Integration
Notoriously slow in absorbing customer feedback and adjusting to market dynamics, the US defence industry is at long last becoming much more responsive to the needs and concerns of buyers. Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest purveyor of military hardware with
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Harvard Business School Impact-Weighted Accounts: Accounting as a Force for Humility and Prosperity
Amid the immeasurable human tragedy and losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are innumerable lessons to be learned. While it may seem callous to derive such lessons from the disaster so early, finding meaning has been added as a sixth
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Stellar Approach from Moonfare: Democratising and Digitalising the Private Equity Industry for All
Accessibility issues are holding the private equity industry back — but Moonfare is changing that. Private equity has traditionally been the preserve of major institutions and billionaires, hurting individual investors and fund managers. For decades, the private equity industry has
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EU Cements Union and Recovery Package
Union leaders have agreed on a landmark €750 billion post-corona EU recovery package that authorises the European Commission to issue bonds for the first time ever. Hailed as a ‘historic day’ for Europe by President Emmanuel Macron of France, the
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Otaviano Canuto: Economic Recovery From the Pandemic May Come to Resemble a Square Root
Signs of recovery in various parts of the global economy started in May, after the depressive dip imposed by Covid-19. They emerged after the easing of restrictions on mobility and reflected policies of flattening the recession curve (income transfers to
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Boston Consulting Group (BCG) CEO Rich Lesser: Inspiring Excellence
In his seven years as CEO of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Rich Lesser (58) has doubled both the firm’s revenue and its workforce. Moreover, BCG was the only major global management consultancy to keep growing strongly through the Great Recession.
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Reimaging Leadership Post COVID-19: Dreaming Health, Social and Planetary Equity Into Being
To achieve a limitless mindset-based leadership, a leader not only needs to be a visionary, a good strategist, focused on executing and delivering results, possess diverse experience and background, and have a reasonable level of technical knowledge, but s/he also
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UBS CEO Ralph Hamers: Understated Efficiency in Minding the Bottom Line
On Monday, 2 November, Ralph Hamers (53) will take the exclusive side entrance of UBS Group’s imposing head office on Zürich’s Paradeplatz to enter a world that quietly exudes wealth, privilege, and power. The Dutchman, recently whisked to the uppermost
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Global Markets Stall as Future Remains Uncertain
In this era of big and bigger numbers, the size of the US budget deficit – $864 billion in June – dwarfs all else. In a single month, the US Treasury overspent about the same amount as the entire post-corona
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The Red Sea International Airport Takes Off: Contract Award to Nesma & Partners and Almabani
This contract has been awarded to support the creation of a sustainable gateway opening Saudi Arabia to the world Riyadh, 13 July 2020: The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), driver of one of the world’s most ambitious tourism initiatives, has
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