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- Private Equity Steps Up in Africa – Part IIThis second part of a two-part podcast on the new face of private equity (PE) in Africa looks at the areas of the economy most ripe for growth and also at some business models that PE firms are pursuing.
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17 min - The Wilderness Foundation’s Andrew Muir: Creating Custodians for the FutureThe executive director of the Wilderness Foundation discusses his organization’s success integrating social programs into its mission and the important role that conservation has to play in Africa’s economic development.
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28 min - Private Equity Steps Up in Africa -- Part I
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15 min - ’Overbooked’: Elizabeth Becker on the Business of TravelAccording to the United Nations tourism organization there were one billion international trips taken during 2012 alone. In a new book titled Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism journalist ElizabethBecker traces the history of tourism and points to the challenges facing the fast-growing industry which currently contributes $6.5 trillion to the world’s economy. In an interview with Knowledge at Wharton Becker discusses the role that both individuals and countries must play as the tourism industry undergoes significant change. (Podcast with transcript)
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21 min - ’Innovation Prowess’: George S. Day on What Distinguishes Growth LeadersHow did IBM General Electric and other companies become growth leaders? Why is it that some companies lag behind -- and stay behind? Those are the questions that Wharton marketing professor George S. Day asks and answers in his book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth. Recently Day spoke with David Heckman practice leader senior management at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education about why innovation prowess is the key to growth leadership. (Video with transcript)
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19 min - ’The Righteous Mind’: Why Liberals and Conservatives Can’t Get AlongA Pew study last year confirmed that U.S. political partisanship has risen sharply. In the face of that trend is it possible for Democrats and Republicans to get along? Wharton professor Philip Tetlock recently spoke with Jonathan Haidt author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion to explore this question. Haidt breaks down why it is so hard for liberals and conservatives to understand one another and what can be done to change that. (Video with transcript)
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28 min - ’Decisive’: Chip Heath on How to Make Better ChoicesIn Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work bestselling authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath argue that humans don’t have a particularly strong track record of making good choices -- whether it is about our careers business matters or our personal lives. Knowledge at Wharton recently had an opportunity to talk with Chip about how widening your options reality-testing your assumptions attaining distance before deciding and preparing to be wrong can make all the difference. (Podcast with transcript)
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13 min - ‘Global Brand Power’: Barbara Kahn on How Branding Has ChangedAccording to Barbara Kahn director of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at Wharton the increasing popularity of social media has two implications for marketers: First customers now control the message and second companies must make sure that key elements of their brand can translate throughout the world. In a recent interview with Wharton MBA candidate Alexandra Idol Kahn discusses her new book Global Brand Power: Leveraging Branding for Long-Term Growth why the brand is a ”mechanism for growth” and how companies can become more customer focused. (Video with transcript)
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14 min - A Five-step Process That Can Help Social Enterprises SucceedIn their ebook The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook Ian C. MacMillan a Wharton management professor and James Thompson director of the Wharton Social Enterprise Program offer specific suggestions to strengthen the effectiveness of social enterprises. In the second of a two-part interview the authors discuss how two African social enterprises -- one in the chicken feeds business and the other in the sanitation industry -- used a five-step process to maximize the social and business impact of their operations. (Video with transcript)
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23 min - How LEGO Stopped Thinking Outside the Box and Innovated Inside the BrickLEGO has built a global empire and become a household name thanks to the interlocking bricks that its founders developed half a century ago. But the company almost went belly up in the early 2000s due to an innovation binge that took it too far away from what LEGO did best. In a new book Wharton practice professor David Robertson details how thinking too far ”outside the box” almost bankrupted LEGO -- and how the company found a winning formula by turning to innovation ”inside the brick.” (Video with transcript)
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