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Knowledge@Australian School of Business - Video Interviews
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How the Leadership Challenge is Not About Numbers
A two-year study into the services sector – where 85% of employed Australians now work – shows intangible factors, such as progressive leadership, the employee experience and innovation, may have a far greater impact on an organisation's profitability than old-school number crunching…
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Tomorrow's Innovators: Heads in the Cloud and Smart Phones in Hand
Sources of innovation have exploded over the past decade as companies no longer look internally for bright ideas but also tap into the public's smarts via the Internet. The possibilities are seemingly infinite, so pinning down exactly which next new things to develop requires a clear…
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Catastrophe Bonds: Sharing the Risk of Natural Disasters
The cost of the devastation from Australia's recent natural disasters is still being counted. Floods in Victoria and severe storms on both sides of the country, along with the earthquake damage in New Zealand, have impacted on the lives of thousands. Strangely enough, these events often occur in...
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Tapping Productivity: How Zip Industries' Innovators Hit Boiling Point
Entrepreneur and innovator Michael Crouch, chairman and CEO of Zip Industries, once saw a big opportunity in a small white box with red taps. By fostering an innovative spirit and daring to be different, his business created the world's first instant boiling water system. Today Zip water heaters...
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New Technologies: Beyond the Lure of the Virtual Is a Need to Get Back to Reality
From video games to remote surgery, virtual possibilities abound. In workplaces, distributed teams and simulations are considered smart productivity-enhancing ways of tapping into new technologies. However, the virtual world needs a reality check, argues Stanford University's Stephen Barley, an...
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Knowledge@ASB - Tax Reform: Picking Up Pace for Bringing on Henry
It's a year since the release of the report on Australia's Future Tax System Review, headed by recently retired Treasury chief Ken Henry. The review was just the start of the Labor Party fulfilling its election promise of a "root and branch" overhaul of taxation. But one year on, not many of the...
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Superannuation: What's Wrong with Australia's Retirement Plans?
Australia's superannuation savings may be the envy of the world with A$1.23 trillion now in the pot to help its ageing population live more comfortably in retirement. But Australia's approach to retirement saving is only half right, according to David Blake of the UK's Pensions Institute, who…
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Driving Tourism: Is It Time for the Kangaroo to Take the Backseat?
The latest novel push by authorities to bring more international tourists to Australian shores seems oddly timed. With the Australian dollar running at record highs, some suspect it will backfire. However, Larry Dwyer, a professor of marketing at the Australian School of Business, anticipates the...
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VIDEO - Expert Opinion: How To Move On From an Economic Meltdown
Many of the world’s economies are still struggling to recover from the global financial crisis. The threat of a crisis Mark II is not out of the question, though it’s unlikely, says Anne Krueger, a former chief economist of the World Bank, and first deputy managing director of the International...
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VIDEO - IMF Insights: Finding the Right Position for Australia in the Asian Century
Australia, with its sound and well-managed financial system, stands to reap significant benefits from the economic growth in Asia. But a key question remains: how should Australia position itself in the Asian century? Reaching a consensus on this is crucial, according to Masahiko Takeda, deputy...
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VIDEO - Nicholas Moore CEO Macquarie Group - How To Manage Risk
Macquarie Group has surplus capital on the balance sheet and continues to seek businesses which meet its acquisition criteria, as chief executive Nicholas Moore highlighted at the annualgeneral meeting of Australia's only listed investment bank in July. In the wake of the financial crisis, the...
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HSBC Australia's chief Paulo Maia: A Positive Prognosis for the Asian Century
Despite signs of a dramatic slowdown in Asia, HSBC – one of the world's largest banks and the world's second largest public company by market capitalisation – is bullish on the long-term future of the region. Australian companies are already leveraging the economic growth of Asia, and Paulo Maia,...
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Tax Boss Tackles Transparency, Avoidance and Tax Appeal
Only about 2.5 million individuals directly use the Australian Taxation Office's online e-tax facility, while a further 9 million now file online via tax agents, which means forking out for the extra compliance costs. A mere half a million use the old paper method. Commissioner of Taxation…
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Alternative Fuel Cars: Has a Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma Stalled the Mass Market?
Electric and biofuel-powered cars offer solutions for a carbon-constrained world, but has early excitement about alternative fuel vehicles fizzled prior to the July 1 start date for Australia's carbon tax? Before the rubber really hits the road and hybrids and "plug-in" cars become mainstream,...
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View from the Top: How BridgeClimb's Paul Cave Scaled New Entrepreneurial Heights
A unique concept and dogged persistence have made Paul Cave one of Australia's most celebrated entrepreneurs. Thanks to his tenacity, millions now have climbed the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge to enjoy the awe-inspiring view from the top of one of the world's most famous landmarks. Establishing...
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Skills Shortages: How Migrants Plus Older Workers Equal a Solution
The three Ps – population, (workforce) participation and productivity – are inextricably linked to Australia's future prosperity and standard of living. National productivity levels are under threat as the population ages. As baby boomers retire, the changing demographics will have a profound...
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Women in Leadership: An Intervention for the Imbalance?
Treasury chief Martin Parkinson's recent announcement that Australia's top economic agency would adopt a long-term target of making 40% of senior executives women was big news, but perhaps not before time. The movement of women into top leadership roles in Australian organisations has been...
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Geoff Harcourt discusses his life & career in Economics
Geoff Harcourt is perhaps one of Australia’s most well known economists. A Cambridge pupil of John Maynard Keynes, he is best known for his role in Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. This was the theoretical and mathematical debate that raged during the 1960s among economists...
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International Relations: How Much Power Does the G20 Really Hold?
Is the seemingly powerful G20 all talk and no action? With no executive power to deliver on policies, the impressive group of 20 developed and developing countries relies on its members to follow through at a national level. Although the group was not close to finding an urgently needed solution...
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From Down Under to Damn Wonder: The Future Beyond Rocks and Crops
Tim Harcourt spent years traversing the globe in pursuit of opportunities for industry as the chief economist at Australia's trade marketing organisation, Austrade. Now "the airport economist" has landed as the newly appointed JW Neville Fellow in Economics at the Australian School of Business,...
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The Entrepreneurs' Big Question: Could Steve Jobs Have Succeeded in Australia?
Could Steve Jobs have succeeded in the Australian entrepreneurial environment? As the world continues to mourn the loss of a great innovator and entrepreneurial visionary, Martin Bliemel, head of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Australian School of Business, considers the...
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Reviewing Equal Pay for Women: Because They're Worth It
All is still not equal in the workforce when it comes to earning power. Income equality took a sharp U-turn in Australia in recent years. The metaphorical glass ceiling continues to repel women who predominate in part-time roles. Their willingness to rejoin the workforce is also dampened by the…
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Business Etiquette: The Lowdown on Corporate Turn-offs
In a business relationship – as in any other – small things are often the most annoying. Smiley faces on emails, wet-fish handshakes and the clang of the teaspoon on the side of the mug during a meeting may seem trivial, but they can be extremely irritating for colleagues, prospective partners…
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Online Trading: Creating Efficiency with Double-sided Markets
Over-excitement or disappointment from wannabe buyers on eBay is commonplace. But will all that change with the proliferation of double-sided markets that bring together buyers and sellers to fix prices and exchange goods more efficiently? Calculating risk on a double-sided market is complex, so...
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Change Management: Hard Truths, Workplace Cynics and Long Memories
Change is inevitable but successfully implementing it is one of the trickiest tasks facing managers. Organisational changes can be mightily expensive, both now and in the future, not least because employees have long memories. And it's not only the big adjustments, such as mergers and downsizing,...
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Boom Time in India: Wrestling the Inflation Monster
India's 15-year-long economic boom has enthralled the world. Lately speculation over bubbles and a bust has arisen as the Indian government struggles to keep a lid on inflation. Warnings have also come from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development about risks from over-regulation...
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US Debt Crisis: How to Avert the Next Financial Collapse
Is the US economy already bankrupt? The world's largest economy reached its statutory debt limit last month. The US Congress must raise the US$14.3 trillion debt ceiling by 2 August 2011 to avoid the government defaulting on its loans. Renowned economist Larry Kotlikoff, a professor at Boston...
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Home Ownership: How to Make it a Reality for Generation Next
International surveys show Australia has the most "unaffordable" housing in the world. Now a reported property bubble – coupled with rising interest rates – are applying further pressure. With too few houses being built to meet demand, it's widely agreed that the housing crisis must be addressed,...
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Innovation: Wesfarmers' MD Richard Goyder Brings on the New
The bigger the business, the less likely it is to be innovative, according to Wesfarmers managing director Richard Goyder. And that's no small claim from the chief of a conglomerate with some 200,000 employees. However, the Western Australian group, that began almost 100 years ago as a farmer's...
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Competitive Strategies: Turning Losers into Winners Through Innovation
Risk aversion remains rife in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, but this approach is dampening corporate competitiveness and putting much-needed innovation on the back burner. In major companies, vigilance over risk and auditing practices has increased at the expense of putting time…
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Marketing in India: How the Rubber Hit the Road for Ford's Figo
A country with 27,000 newspapers and 850 million mobile phone users presented a marketing challenge for the US motor vehicle manufacturing giant Ford when it decided to make inroads into the Indian small car market. But extensive research into customers' aspirations and a strong focus on value...
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Knowledge@ASB - Deferring Retirement: Switch on to Working Until 75+
Ignorance is definitely not bliss when it comes to retirement saving. Despite the wake-up call of the global financial crisis, research shows very few people are clued up on just how they will pay for increasingly longer lives. A comparative international study shows that women and low-paid…
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Knowledge@ASB - Disaster Management: Who's Calling the Shots in Japan?
Many outstanding questions concern the accidents at the Fukishima nuclear power plant in the wake of the March earthquake, tsunami and ongoing aftershocks in Japan. Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan has criticised the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Company and its executives for their...
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National Productivity: A Case of Missing Incentives
The policy settings for productivity growth in Australia are out of whack. Fred Hilmer, one of the architects of the reforms that helped set up Australia's outstanding productivity boom that began in the mid-1990s, says current microeconomic policy has a critical missing piece – competition. To...
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Knowledge@ASB: Stephen Kaufman on the role of a CEO
When you unpack the role of the chief executive officer (CEO), it comes down to five principal responsibilities. Yet, as the high turnover rate for corporate chiefs suggests, the role is far from straightforward. Part of the problem may be the vanity factor – that is, who the CEO sees when they...
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Knowledge@ASB - Peeyush Gupta on changes to rules governing financial advisers
A parliamentary joint committee has recommended sweeping changes to the rules governing financial advisors in Australia. In an interview with Knowledge@Australian School of Business, Peeyush Gupta, executive in residence at the Australian School of Business and co-founder of iPac Securities,...
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