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Top Five Predictions for 2024 (Asia)
Wayne BurnsChampion US baseball manager Casey Stengel once said, “Never make predictions, especially about the future”.
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Top Five Predictions for 2024
Wayne BurnsChampion US baseball manager Casey Stengel once said, “Never make predictions, especially about the future”.
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socio political environment
Keeping a weather eye on COP28
Cat Woods, Law Society Journal, 06 December 2023On 30 November, COP28 welcomed world leaders and representatives in Dubai to discuss the most pressing global climate change concerns. The Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will proceed intensively until 12 December. The core work of COP28 is the same as it has been in previous years:...
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How to develop geopolitical resilience
McKinsey & CompanyGeopolitical tensions have been rising, creating significant risks for companies, especially those operating internationally. Here is how to plan ahead.
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Why Apple can’t leave China
Financial Times, 27 September 2023Apple has spent two decades and billions of dollars building a massive supply chain for its products. At the centre of that operation is China. But as Beijing has become more authoritarian and relations with the US sour, it has become harder for Apple to do business there. The company has been signalling recently...
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Evergrande files chapter 15 bankruptcy protection - the state of Chinese real estate
Richard Coffin, Investment Analyst and host of the financial YouTube channel The Plain Bagel, dives into Evergrande's recent filing for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, what this means, and where China's real estate market and economy stands today.
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Russian roulette: Unilever has failed its moral duty to Ukraine
Sam Forsdick, RaconteurBritish American Tobacco, Shell and McDonald’s are not the most likely line-up of corporate do-gooders but they can all claim superiority to Unilever in one area – each of these businesses swiftly divested from Russia in the months following the invasion of Ukraine.
A year and a half on, Unilever remains...
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Geopolitical resilience: the new board imperative
Zaid Haider, Jon Huntsman Jr., and Chris Leech, McKinsey & CompanyGeopolitical risk is at the top of the CEO agenda. Board members can help by sharpening their understanding of the geopolitical context, monitoring developments, and exercising oversight over the controls to mitigate these risks.
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