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The Entrepreneurs' Big Question: Could Steve Jobs...

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2011/10/25

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 drivers of Jobs' extraordinary success and the factors that gave rise not only to great tech innovation but so many ubiquitous gadgets. In the Australian context, even Jobs might have struggled to

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Reviewing Equal Pay for Women: Because They're Worth It

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2011/10/15

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 tax system in Australia, which provides a disincentive for women to return to work after having children. The whole system needs a shake-up, argues Australian School of Business professor Denise

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Business Etiquette: The Lowdown on Corporate Turn-offs

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2011/09/28

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 and clients. Understanding how to keep behaviour neutral is key, according to Danielle Di-Masi, a business etiquette expert who coaches leaders in building the right perceptions for business

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Online Trading: Creating Efficiency with Double-sided...

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2011/08/03

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 much so that game theorists have not been able to understand how it's done, says Peter Bossaerts, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. However, people are surprisingly comfortable with this

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Change Management: Hard Truths, Workplace Cynics and...

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2011/07/26

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, which impact. Even small details like a logo change can affect an employee's sense of workplace identity. Alannah Rafferty, a lecturer in Organisation and Management at the Australian School of Business,

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Boom Time in India: Wrestling the Inflation Monster

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2011/07/06

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 in India. Kaushik Basu, a professor of economics at Cornell University in the US and the chief economic advisor to the Indian Ministry of Finance, has joined the debate about opening sectors of the

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US Debt Crisis: How to Avert the Next Financial Collapse

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2011/06/24

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 University, insists the US was broke long before the global financial crisis. US governments have been disguising the real level of national debt for decades, claims Kotlikoff who tips an imminent

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Home Ownership: How to Make it a Reality for...

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2011/06/11

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, but how? Australia's Future Taxation System Review, chaired by retired Treasury chief Ken Henry, recommended eliminating stamp duty on house sales. However, Henry review panel member, John

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Innovation: Wesfarmers' MD Richard Goyder Brings on...

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2011/06/02

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 cooperative, has managed to keep growing and innovating across diverse sectors, including retail, resources and financial services. And its latest results indicate it's on plan to turnaround the Coles

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Competitive Strategies: Turning Losers into Winners...

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2011/06/02

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 and effort into competitive strategy, innovation and its inevitable companion, calculated risk-taking. The president and vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Fred Hilmer, argues that

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Marketing in India: How the Rubber Hit the Road for...

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2011/06/02

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 delivered cut-through for the four-wheeled Australian-designed Figo in a populous nation of do-it-yourself mechanics. Michael Boneham, president and managing director of Ford India shares lessons from

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Knowledge@ASB - Deferring Retirement: Switch on to...

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2011/06/02

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 workers are most likely to face old age under-funded. But, according to Olivia Mitchell, an insurance and risk professor at the Wharton School, it's time for everyone to defer retirement plans –

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Knowledge@ASB - Disaster Management: Who's Calling...

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2011/06/01

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 handling of the situation and in recent days the company has apologized for the nuclear crisis. But it's not surprising that top-level executive decision-making has come under scrutiny in Japan, says

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National Productivity: A Case of Missing Incentives

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2011/06/01

The policy settings for productivity growth in Australia are out of whack. Fred Hilmer, one of the architects of the reforms that helped set upAustralia's outstanding productivity boom that began in the mid-1990s, says current microeconomic policy has a critical missing piece – competition. To reverse the nation's recent productivity slump, more incentives for competition are needed, along with further reductions in company and marginal taxes, insists Hilmer, president and

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Knowledge@ASB: Stephen Kaufman on the role of a CEO

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2010/06/16

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 look in the mirror – according to Steve Kaufman, PricewaterhouseCoopers research fellow at the Australian School of Business and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. In an interview for

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Knowledge@ASB - Peeyush Gupta on changes to rules...

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2010/05/05

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, discusses the new rules with Julian Lorkin.

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