Smart City: Essentials for city leaders
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The digital revolution is impacting all sectors of our economy including the public sector, and with it the administration and management of cities...
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What is a Smart City anyways?
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The term “Smart City” has lately become a buzzword for anyone involved in governing a city, yet it remains opaque and relatively ill-defined. Curre...
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Clean winners: Sustainability strategy that puts customers first
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Despite massive investments, sustainable business still isn't very profitable for most companies. Here's a fresh approach for resetting sustainability for customer value—and profitability. Store aisles packed with products labelled "environmentall...
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Slawomir Krupa, how can a 160-year-old bank reinvent itself?
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How do you rebuild trust in a 160-year-old bank? Société Générale CEO Slawomir Krupa on discipline, fintech disruption, and tough turnaround decisions.
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Hong Kong Broadband Network: An integrated approach to talent management (Paper version)
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Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) charted a success story starting out as the smallest new entrant in Hong Kong’s highly competitive telecom industry in 1999 and went on to become the second largest provider of residential broadband within 10 years. State-of-the-art fiber network infrastructure allowed HKBN to offer high-quality high-speed telecom services at competitive prices. However, the company soon realized that its technological edge could be easily replicated. Its competitive advantage was actually vested in its 2,500 employees – all referred to as Talents. HKBN instituted a unique co-ownership scheme whereby employees were invited to invest up to two years of salary in the company. It also made sustained investment in talent development through well-designed learning programs coupled with significant empowerment on the job. The case outlines the importance of leadership and talent management as key drivers of growth for the company. HKBN listed in early 2015 and embarked upon its next phase of growth with the aim of becoming the largest broadband service provider by 2019, overtaking its largest competitor and entrenched incumbent, PCCW. HKBN looked to its Talents to rise to the challenge once again.
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Adam Smith and the miracle of your caffè latte
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The Wealth of Nations remains a cornerstone of economic thought. Adam Smith’s treatise on free trade is relevant for today’s fracturing global economy.
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Sustainability has stopped being a differentiator: Here’s how CFOs can stay ahead
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CFO Raphael Savalle shows how finance leaders can embed sustainability, drive AI-led transformation, and lead with credibility and human insight.
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Four moves to create data strategy competitive advantage | I by IMD
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Data strategy competitive advantage depends on a proprietary knowledge base of internal and external data powering predictive models.
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Katarina Bonde: Are you scaling, or just burning cash?
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Katarina Bonde explores Europe’s venture capital outlook, AI bubble risks, and why data-driven startups and scaleups will drive productivity, growth, and jobs.
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Material advantage: How circular strategies drive business value
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Discover how circular strategies drive business value by reducing risk, securing resources and boosting resilience in a volatile economy.
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AI Gender Pay Gap - Emerging Tech
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As AI investment grows, unequal access to emerging tech skills is widening the AI gender pay gap. New research shows how organisations can reverse it.
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The hidden rules of green innovation - Leadership
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Environmental policy drives green innovation in emerging economies but delivers limited gains in advanced markets due to institutional strengths and informal networks.
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