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Keeping Top Talent Engaged in Tight Times
Sylvia Ann Hewlett of the Center for Work-Life Policy discusses how to keep engagement up when business is down.
In the last 14th APEC Women Leaders’ Network Meeting , held on August 4 and 5, 2009, makes 10 policy recommendations in Singapore…
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Small Loans, Big Dreams
How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World Book Description A comprehensive look at the concept of micro-financing [caption id="attachment_1205" align="alignright" width="127" caption="Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World"][/caption] Micro-financing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. It can be implemented on the massive scale necessary to respond to the urgent needs of the world's poorest. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts looks at the lives of micro-lending borrowers from the Grameen Foundation in Bangladesh and Chicago. All of the ...
Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business
High-Impact, Low-Cost Social Marketing That Works! With more than 80,000,000 affluent, savvy members, Facebook is today’s fastest-growing marketing opportunity! But traditional marketing methods won’t work here. In Facebook Marketing, best-selling author Steven Holzner reveals new social marketing techniques that do work, and shows you exactly how to make the most of them. Using true case studies, Holzner introduces powerful new techniques from today’s smartest Facebook marketers...and helps you avoid pitfalls that can cost you money and credibility. No matter what business you’re in, you’ll learn how to create bottom-up, “viral” Facebook marketing programs that achieve maximum results at minimum cost! [caption id="" ...
Icons of Business: An Encyclopedia of Mavericks, Movers, and Shakers
Synopses & Reviews Information below is taken from Powell's books. Publisher Comments: The huge popularity of The Apprentice reflects the degree to which business has emerged as a primary force in popular culture. Not suprisingly, what it takes to succeed in the cutthroat corporate environment is not unlike show business--strong ego, ability to withstand rejection, creativity, and risktaking, to name a few of the requisite qualities. Moreover, business figures are increasingly spotlighted in the popular press, either lauded as exemplars of vision, drive, and service to the community or vilified as monsters of greed. For the millions of students pursuing degrees related to ...
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The Thomson Reuters Markets Academy will be conducting classes at One Raffles Quay, #28-00 North Tower, Singapore 048583. The training will ...
This year the GO-FAR students visited Bangladesh for two week-long trips in July and September. This exhibition is the fruition ...
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Accounting, Banking & Finance
Thomson Reuters Training Programs in DecemberThe Thomson Reuters Markets Academy will be conducting classes at One Raffles Quay, #28-00 North Tower, Singapore 048583.
The training will focus on Reuters X300, Options, US TIPS, Economic Data, Investments, Bonds, CDS, US Treasuries and FX.
Please register at the the site linked above.
If you have any enquiries, please email sin.training@reuters.com.
Hospitality Management
NBS signs MOU with AscottNBS signs MOU with Ascott to offer management trainee programmes and internships.
“LHZB (21 Jun 08, Pg 31) reported on the opening of the Ascott Group’s Ascott Centre for Excellence, a new global hospitality training centre in Singapore that will provide a full range of hospitality programmes to raise awareness of hospitality as an attractive career [...]
Information Technology & Operations Management
Keeping Top Talent Engaged in Tight TimesSylvia Ann Hewlett of the Center for Work-Life Policy discusses how to keep engagement up when business is down.
In the last 14th APEC Women Leaders’ Network Meeting , held on August 4 and 5, 2009, makes 10 policy recommendations in Singapore…
Marketing & International Business
Free is the Future of BusinessAn interesting article written by Chris Anderson, author of the book “The Long Tail”, talks about how “free” is the way to go for business, where consumers will first get something for free, and then subsequently pay for other products or services because of the free item.
Examples include giving away a cell phone but selling [...]
Strategy, Management & Organization
The Leadership Secrets of Colin PowellThe Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
Harari, Oren
Location: Business Library
Call no.: HD57.7.H254S
Powell’s Rules for Recruiting and Promoting
Powell advises leaders to hire, place, and promote talented individuals with the following qualities:
Look for intelligence and judgement
and, most critically, a capacity
to anticipate, to see around corners.
Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy
drive, a balanced ego and the drive
to [...]
Business Law
The Untold Secrets of Tax Havens” The mention of tax havens conjures up images of secret bank accounts hidden in the Alps and “shell companies” in sunny exotic islands. Most people would readily point to Switzerland, well-known for its banking secrecy or the Cayman Islands, where President Obama recently described an “outrageous” situation where over 12,000 businesses claim a particular [...]
Entreprenuership
Social Entrepreneurship: Creating ChangeIn this Tulane University program, David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World, J.B. Schramm, founder and CEO of College Summit and Susan Davis, chair of the Grameen Foundation USA, discuss the role of the social entrepreneur in addressing social issues.
These innovative people have found solutions to many problems by combining their social expertise [...]
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