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Hard discounters: Underestimate at your own peril

  30 Oct 2018

Strategy and Growth

A combination of high quality products and low prices have beaten Walmart twice; hard discounters are coming for Asia In April this year, Walmart effectively sold off its Asda stores in the U.K. to...
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Intellectual property, innovation and the retail industry

  30 Oct 2018

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Technology and Change

Think ahead to protect your intellectual property, and leverage on it to deliver customer value Being a market leader sometimes brings unexpected trouble. FarEastFlora.com, the online arm of one of...
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Teachers, education, and inequality in the developing world

  30 Oct 2018

Social-Insights

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Law, Business, Social Sciences & Humanities

Investing in teachers is key but incentivising poor parents to keep their kids in school is crucial When the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the...
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The rise and fall of bike-sharing platforms: A lesson in e-commerce

  30 Oct 2018

Technology and Change

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Management Insights

This article is republished with permission by China Business Knowledge at Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School. You can access the original article here.     In the era of digital economy...
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Three useful things to know about running a team

  30 Oct 2018

Human Capital & Talent Management

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Management Insights

This article is republished with permission from BusinessThink at UNSW Business School. You can access the original article here.     Best practice to inspire and ensure a successful group effort
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U.S. economic outlook for the rest of 2018

  30 Oct 2018

Financial Markets and Institutions

Fed rates to inch up as GDP grows but China-U.S. trade war is a major worry In its last meeting in September the U.S. Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the fed fund rates by an...
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