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BBC Dragons Den: "When coup de foudre happens"

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:09 Written by Julie Meyer

Securing investment is one of the hardest things you'll ever do, and managing a relationship with an investor will be one of the most important in your life. Some liken it to a marriage. The divorce can be just as nasty.

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Trade can stop wars and neutralise tyrants

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 16:44 Written by Julie Meyer

Economics and trade will help lift millions out of poverty.
Julie Meyer for the Sunday Telegraph

Capital efficient financial services will drive the new economics shaping the post-financial crisis world order. Microfinance organisations such as the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh as well as the Fredericks Foundation in the UK will lift millions of people out of poverty.

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What’s the Toughest Strategic Challenge of 2010?

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 16:33 Written by Thomas A. Stewart

 

A year ago, the most bedeviling strategic problem was stark: It was getting through the night — how to make sure that what you did to survive the recession didn’t leave you too maimed to enjoy the recovery. (If and when…) Five years ago, the nastiest problem — at least for companies in established markets — was how to cope with competition from low-cost competitors. That problem hasn’t gone away, but many multinationals are coping with it pretty well, except where host governments play favorites with a heavy hand.
My candidate for toughest-to-crack nut these days is a problem my colleagues and I call “fluidity.” Simply put, it’s how to bring world-class capability to bear on any situation anywhere in the world without building a bloated business. Here’s why fluidity is so important — and so hard.
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