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...standout) have annual overseas sales of $1 billion. Only one figures in the 2005 Forbes list of the world's top 2000 companies (Telecom was No. 988; Australia had 38 companies on the list). Not only do the Kiwis need national champions, argues Skilling, but they must invest in "sticky" assets (unlike graduates who easily find their way to Sydney, Hong Kong and London) and keep the "action at home." One advantage that New Zealand has over Australia is that it can move very quickly; its size and government structures allow rapid deployment. If the world is not as flat...
...That same desire to market to, and invest in, some of the world's poorest countries is behind Tata's affinity for Bangladesh and Africa. Tata group recently finalized a $3 billion power, steel and coal deal in Bangladesh, the biggest investment in that country's history. In South Africa, the group has investments in mining, tourism and engine manufacturing. There is an instant-coffee plant in Uganda, a bus factory in Senegal and a phosphate plant in Morocco. "We look at countries where we can play a role in development," says Tata. "Our hope in each is to create...
...India been? Foreign institutional investors poured $30 billion into the Indian market in three years--double the amount they had invested in the previous decade. Firms like JP Morgan and Fidelity raced to set up India-focused mutual funds. An Indian student at Harvard Business School told TIME that one of the U.S.'s best-known hedge funds had given him $5 million to invest in Indian stocks--never mind that he hadn't yet graduated. "The joke going around was that if you had an Indian girlfriend when you were at college in Boston," says Manish Chokhani, director...
...just two hours. "It feels like the hangover after a big party," Chokhani says. Indian stocks rallied dramatically late last week, but for U.S. investors eyeing this mayhem from afar, the Indian market looks as risky as it is tempting. With stock prices down, is this the moment to invest on the cheap in what many believe will be the world's fastest-growing economy over the next 50 years...
...moral duty.”“Many of the most pressing problems that face us as human beings, whether it is health or it is energy and environment, require cross disciplinary teams. And we are the kind of university that not only can invest in both, but in some sense morally should invest in both,” Hyman says. “And we have a moral duty because, frankly, the well-being of our species and all of us and our kids depends on it.”Despite the eagerness of administrators of the Allston...