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...Paul De Grauwe: Few things are more difficult to predict than movements in the business cycle. But yes, there is a possible positive scenario....
...Shopee will also have to contend with challenges specific to doing business in Brazil....
...As vaccines roll out and business travellers venture back into a post-Brexit world, that theory will be tested once again....
...Since then, the costs of doing business during Covid-19 have throttled growth and profits, with billions spent on keeping Amazon’s reputation for fast delivery intact....
...An announcement of his impending departure could come as soon as this week....
...Paul de Clerck, co-ordinator of the economic justice programme at campaign group Friends of the Earth Europe, questions the significance of reputational harm for those in the business-to-business sector...
...He cites Virgin Megastores as one business he clung on to for too long....
...… Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less, by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao, Random House Business, RRP£14.99/ Crown Business, RRP$26 The two Stanford professors tackle one of...
...“We need to deliver more growth …We have to insist on exploration as a priority.” The admission seems bizarre. Can it really be true that a supermajor like Total is not doing enough to find more oil?...
...If boom and bust are the recurring themes in Brazil’s recent economic history, carmakers doing business there have been having a typically manic time....
...This week James Murdoch stepped down as executive chairman of the British newspaper business leaving it without a Murdoch at the helm for the first time....
...At the Flextronics industrial township of 52,000 employees in the city of Zhuhai, the maker of components for Xbox consoles for Microsoft, as well as products for other electronics manufacturers, has started...
...But the broad trend for green business is only heading up, he adds. And one thing is clear: as long as people can make money from green businesses, investment will grow....
...Brazil, for example, is ranked 127th out of 183 countries this year in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business Report, below Mozambique and Nepal. But they can also be overcome. Just look at Marfrig....
...It means investing in new technologies, brands and ways of doing business. Competing with emerging market companies is nothing new for developed world multinationals....
...Companies working with big suppliers, such as Chinese companies Foxconn or Flextronics, will get reasonable levels of transparency and information from them, says George Appling, a principal at Katzenbach...
...strategies; several dozen financial institutions now run Brics funds; business schools have launched Brics courses; and this April Phillips de Pury will be holding a Brics-themed auction....
...That was the name given by UN climate chief Yvo de Boer to efforts by rich countries to rebrand their existing overseas development help to poor countries as climate change-related aid....
...“It might prove difficult to buy back should there be an inkling that the company was planning on doing so, as you would see them shoot up in price very quickly because the markets are very illiquid....
...KKR was seen as one of the pioneers of private equity in India in 2006 when it staged the country’s biggest buy-out, the $900m acquisition of an 85 per cent stake in communications software group Flextronics...
...In October 2002, a Mexico-based accountant sent a letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission expressing his concerns about his mother’s investments with the Stanford Financial Group....
...My wife hates me for it but I spend as much time on my BlackBerry on holiday as I do when I’m in London, or anywhere else on business....
...What Armstrong and the Garmin team are doing is known scientifically as longitudinal testing....
...The JBA will allow BA and American, as well as Iberia, to share revenues and co-ordinate prices, capacity, schedules and routes on flights between the US, Canada and Mexico and the European Union’s 27 member-states...
...General Electric is a practised acquirer but so are Cemex of Mexico and Arcelor Mittal, the steel group built by Lakshmi Mittal....
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