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Is a corporate app right for your business?

Companies in a range of sectors are starting to use apps to communicate with investors, journalists and other audiences. Should your company launch one? And if so, how?

CEOs seeking value in human dimension of business

CEOs are placing more emphasis on non-financial aspects of their businesses as they chart their futures. At the same time, executives worry that the short-term focus of investors is hindering their ability to plan for the long term, according to a study commissioned by the AICPA and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

How to balance cultural views on networking

See how foreign-born and American-born professionals differ in their views on how to properly begin a networking conversation, and get three tips for successfully adapting behaviour across cultures. HBR Blog Network, January 17th 2012

Deloitte report calls for business-driven HR evolution

Human resources must embrace expanded role as business world goes global. Human resources departments need to develop new strategies to stay relevant in a rapidly changing global business environment, according to Deloitte. In a 140-page report titled “Global Business Driven HR Transformation: The Journey Continues,” Jason Geller and Arthur H.

CGMA launch focuses on non-financial value, long-term business strategies

A panel of executives meeting in the finance capitals of New York City and London discussed new research on the importance of the human dimension and non-financial value in long-term business strategies.

FASB, IASB to work on classification and measurement for financial instruments

The US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are working together to reduce differences in their respective classification and measurement models for financial instruments.

More than half of growth market deals fail, PwC warns

Deals in growth markets are a high-risk, high-reward enterprise best managed by building the local machinery to get the deal done, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

Letter from… Beijing

Forget China’s old image as a low-cost manufacturing base. The country is now a burgeoning market for high-end Western goods and services. The Daily Telegraph’s Beijing correspondent Peter Foster charts the challenges and opportunities ahead.

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