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Early education transforms lives
Oped, Justin van Fleet & Pia Rebello Britto, Published on 09/12/2025
» The leaders' declaration adopted at the end of the recent G20 summit in South Africa reaffirmed the group's commitment to tackling some of the world's most pressing challenges, from inequality and long-running conflicts to AI and climate change. It also marked a historic milestone: for the first time, the G20 identified education as one of its top global priorities.
Rethinking finance beyond aid
Oped, Justin Yifu Lin & Yan Wang, Published on 06/11/2025
» Traditional donors have sharply scaled back their aid commitments to developing countries over the past year. Some, like the United States, have virtually eliminated their aid programmes. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), official development assistance (ODA) from member countries declined by 7.1% in 2024, its first annual drop in six years.
Heroes of productivity growth
News, Chris Bradley & Jan Mischke, Published on 03/06/2025
» Few doubt that productivity growth is good for society. It generally translates into higher wages, a consumer surplus (prices below what you are willing to pay), larger profits, and greater shareholder value. Less understood, however, is how productivity growth is created. New research from the McKinsey Global Institute shows that the lion's share comes from just a few firms making audacious moves.
Emulating Tiger at Zozo event in Japan an honour
Sports, Keegan Bradley, Published on 26/10/2022
» It feels amazing and I feel so honoured to have won the Zozo Championship and be a PGA Tour champion in Japan [earlier this month].
Santa Claus Is Coming -- But He'll Skip Some Stores in U.S.
Business, Justin Lahart & Jinjoo Lee, Published on 25/10/2021
» 'It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags."
Franklin Resources to Buy Legg Mason for $4.5 Billion
Business, Justin Baer & Cara Lombardo, Published on 20/02/2020
» Franklin Resources Inc. agreed to buy rival asset manager Legg Mason Inc. for $4.5 billion in cash, a deal that could help two big players in an industry that is under pressure from shifting investor tastes.
Saudi Prince Courted Amazon's Bezos Before Bitter Split
Business, Justin Scheck, Bradley Hope & Summer Said, Published on 28/01/2020
» Through much of 2018, Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and tech-savvy Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman seemed to be hitting it off.
China's Burgeoning EdTech Industry: Will it disrupt corporate HR?
Ronald J. Kantor & Justin Paul, Published on 22/04/2019
» In the HR space, tech advancements have been promising to disrupt the field since cloud-based systems took off in the 1990's. We've seen enough disruption in other fields like hospitality, transportation, and finance, to believe that a major transformation is possible. However, in the average organisation only a few developments in areas like applicant CV screening, digital learning, and cloud HRIS are present. So, what's next for HR and should we brace for imminent and radical disruption?
China's Ed Tech “perfect storm”: massive opportunity or fearsome indoctrination threat?
Ronald J. Kantor & Justin Paul, Published on 18/02/2019
» By In our previous article in this series we made the case that China's Ed Tech sector is the market across the globe to watch for innovations in learning technologies. This is due to a confluence of factors, including significant government and venture capital investment, low barriers to obtaining pilot data, lack of constricting regulation, and finally the social force of a generation of parents who invest heavily in their children's education partly as a method for providing themselves with a secure retirement. Together these factors have resulted in the rapid outgrowth of startups and other organisations that innovate with new technologies to accelerate student learning, particularly in the areas of English language learning, standardised test preparation and STEM subjects.
China's promising Ed tech market
Dr. Ronald J. Kantor & Mr. Justin Paul, Published on 21/01/2019
» The continued development of innovative technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and others, along with increased public adoption and comfort with their use, has led to current and expected transformations in the approach organisations take towards talent management, training, and workforce development. While the expected value of these new methods is great, their current implementations always seem to fall short of what's promised by enthusiastic tech vendors and start-ups, indicating that more investment and development is necessary.