Archive for January, 2009

The Pharmaceutical Market Outlook to 2018

Friday, January 30th, 2009

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The Pharmaceutical Market Outlook to 2018 is a new report published by Business Insights that explores the key threats and opportunities facing the pharma industry over the next ten years. This report analyses how leading companies including Pfizer, Roche, GSK, and Merck & Co. are optimizing their approaches and growth strategies to [...]

100 Best Companies to Work for 2009

Friday, January 30th, 2009

NetApp ranks No. 1 on FORTUNE magazine’s 2009 list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For“. Google slips to no. 4.
The list is based on two criteria: an evaluation of the policies and culture of each company and the opinions of the company’s employees. Two-thirds of the total score comes from responses to a [...]

VANOC continues rigorous adherence to sustainability goals for 2010

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Long after the Olympians and Paralympians pack away their medals and return home, the legacy of the 2010 Winter Games will endure in the newly trained inner-city carpenters, improved working standards at factories and eco-friendly sports centres built for the enjoyment of both the local community and world-class athletes.
These are just a few of the [...]

2008 European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) and European Innovation Progress Report (EIPR)

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

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The 2008 European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) recently published shows the European Union making substantial progress in its innovation performance preceding the financial crisis. The relative innovation gap with the US and Japan was reduced, in particular amid strong progress by many new Member States such as Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria. Across the EU, [...]

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin. ISBN-13: 9780749939755

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

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Synopsis: A tribe is any group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, a leader, and an idea. For millions of years, humans have been seeking out tribes, be they religious, ethnic, economic, political, or even musical (think of the Deadheads). It’s our nature.
Now the Internet has eliminated the [...]

IMF. World Economic Outlook Update

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

World growth is projected to fall to just ½ percent in 2009, its lowest rate in 60 years, the IMF said in an Update to its World Economic Outlook, released on January 28 together with an update to its Global Financial Stability Report.
Watch the IFM video: summary of update to World Economic Outlook

Determining Factors of the CEO’s Reputation: A Sectorial Analysis of the Leading Spanish Businesses

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

IESE researcher Lourdes Susaeta, Prof. José Ramón Pin and research assistant María Jesús Belizón surveyed 234 chief executives from the 1,000 highest-grossing businesses operating in Spain. Their objective was to discover, through the top executives’ own perceptions, which factors influence reputation and to what degree, while drawing distinctions between the various sectors analyzed.The results cite [...]

Shaping the Post-Crisis World

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Today starts in Davos one of the most important Annual Meetings ever held by the World Economic Forum. The meeting will be focused on managing the current crisis and shaping the entire post-crisis agenda, from economic reform to climate change. You can find all the information about The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 on [...]

Global MBA Rankings 2009

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

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The FT MBA 2009 ranking is dominated by American business schools. London Business School is ranked in the number one slot jointly with the Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania. IESE Business School has been placed in the top 15.
The ranking of the top 100 full-time MBA programmes was compiled from data supplied [...]

Measuring China’s Innovation System: National Specificities and International Comparisons

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

This OECD working paper discusses actors and resources in China’s science and innovation system, science and technology performance, and general purpose technologies. It provided input to the recently published OECD Review of China’s Innovation Policy. The annex to this paper assesses international comparability of China’s S&T indicators.
To read the full text click here.