Entrepreneur Magazine has compiled a list of the U.S. MBA programs that are most highly rated by their students in six key areas relating to career opportunities and development. The lists, titled “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools,” were based on the opinions of MBA students attending the schools and were created and compiled by [...]
The ILO’s International Institute for Labor Studies has just published a study titled “The Financial and Economic Crisis: A Decent Work Response“, which analyzes demographic trends and forecasts their impact on societies. It predicts that nearly 90 million net new jobs would be needed between 2009-10 to absorb new entrants in the labor market and [...]
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The National Association for Female Executives’ (NAFE) Top 50 Companies for Executive Women spotlights corporations with practices and employment records that benefit women and encourage their advancement to top management positions.
For this year’s Top 50 Companies list, NAFE examined corporate programs and policies dedicated to advancing women as well as the number of women [...]
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched the National Basic Food Prices Data and Analysis Tool. The new database tracks food prices in 55 developing countries and allows comparisons between domestic and international markets, between different markets in the same country and between countries.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched its report “The Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures and Multilateral Remedies.” The study investigates three interrelated issues that UNCTAD sees as the core areas to be dealt with by international economic policy-makers for they can only be addressed through recognition of their multilateral dimension, [...]
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Energy Intelligence Group, Inc has just published Petroleum Intelligence Weekly – its annual ranking of the world’s 50 largest oil companies for 2009. Saudi Aramco remains No. 1, followed by NIOC (Iran) and Exxon Mobil (US). The PIW rankings are based on six operational criteria for comparing private and state-owned oil companies.
The report shows [...]
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Madrid Barajas Airport was knocked off the rankings of the top ten busiest airports by Denver International Airport (United States). Barajas, the Spanish capital’s main airport, had to console itself with eleventh place, according to the provisional list for 2008 compiled by the Airports Council International (ACI), which brings together 679 thousand airports [...]
Synopsis
Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and strike their own deals. This groundswell is global, it’s unstoppable, it affects every industry, and it’s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now.
When consumers [...]
This new report from Deloitte and the Economist Intelligence Unit is based on a global online survey of 360 senior executives in the life sciences industry, conducted in 2008. The survey asked executives to predict the level of change their companies would undergo in the future to address growing risk, as well as what areas [...]
In the wake of the global financial disaster companies, organizations and leaders around the world are scrambling to brace themselves for the uncertain times ahead while protecting against and preventing similar catastrophes in the future.
“Those who survive will be organizations with strong, ethical leadership, innovative global mindsets and sustainable strategies that will create lasting value [...]
