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Tag: Maya Baltazar Herrera

How Apple, Google, Facebook and Alibaba used their power

"Power grows and is abused when the victims have no recourse."   I’ve been thinking about power, how it’s gained, how it’s used. In the pandemic,...

Still

"We can only make the correct choices if we truly understand the situation."   It’s the middle of May and summer is clearly here. In the...

Dealing with Ennui: From Languishing to Flourishing

'As we teeter between the hope of an end to the pandemic and the horror of continuing losses, we must learn to deal with our...

Policy Myopia: How wishful thinking, perverse incentives lead to disaster

"What do Greensill Capital’s bankruptcy and India’s second Covid-19 surge have in common?"   At first blush, the two tales seem to have little in common....

Financial shenanigans: Archegos and what we have not seemed to learn

"How Bill Hwang used derivatives to fly under disclosure regulations and lost billions for global banks." It was the type of story we thought we...

How Lazada lost Southeast Asia to Shopee

"You ignore people at your peril. Customers, sellers, employees. They are the heart of your enterprise." When Alibaba bought a controlling stake in Lazada in...

Steering through Change and Uncertainty: Lessons from Nokia, Garena and Shopee

"At the heart of every good strategy is preserving the company’s ability to change" A key responsibility of any leader is to make sure that...

Eleventh hour

"The things that work are not a matter of government mandate. They are a matter of citizenship."   In the week marking one year under quarantine,...

Being Good

"Vaccine delivery from Pfizer: under negotiation"   The Philippines received 525,60000 doses of AstraZaneca vaccines through the COVAX facility in two shipments last week.  This completes...

The Covid-19 Vaccine: The Basics

"No vaccinated person has been hospitalized for, or died from COVID-19."   Monday this week, COVID-19 mass vaccinations officially rolled out in the Philippines. On the last...

Tunnel

"In its 12th month of lockdown, Metro Manila continues in GCQ." As February ends, Metro Manila reaches midway into its 12th month of lockdown. With the...

Slippery Slope

"McKinsey, global consulting giant agrees to a $600-m settlement on opioids case"   In the first week of February, McKinsey, one of the most influential consulting...

GameStop and the Challenge of Norming

The stock price of US omnichannel videogaming retailer GameStop plunged 30 percent Monday this week, 1 February, closing at $225 from its Friday price...

Business models

"The three pillars of business viability: marketing, operations, and finance." The pandemic and the resulting quarantines resulted in many new home businesses. However, even prior...
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