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Another family firm exploiting a more favorable business climate is Nadim. Once a maker of traditional furniture for Arab oil sheiks, it is becoming a producer of modern designs for trendy European and American boutiques. CEO Adham Nadim is spearheading a strategic partnership with the government to boost Egypt's furniture exports from $200 million to $1 billion by 2010. The government lured Helmy Abouleish from his job running Sekem Group, an organic-food exporter, to head the government's Industrial Modernization Center. "Globalization is coming, whether we like it or not," says Abouleish. "Can we survive five...
Over the past three years, Emaar Properties, an outfit in the United Arab Emirates, has become one of the world's leading real estate developers. Emaar was founded in 1997 by ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum to lead the Dubai construction boom. The 70/30 business-government partnership, run by chairman Mohammed Ali Alabbar, started taking its expertise on the road in 2002, achieving a market cap worth $20 billion. Currently, in addition to constructing Burj Dubai, touted as the world's tallest skyscraper, Alabbar is busy with undertakings from hotels in Miami to a convention center in Hyderabad...
...partnership of two companies - and completely. Nissan is not a subsidiary of Renault. The two companies have two different boards, they have two different executive committees, two different shares, one is trading in Tokyo, the other one is trading in France. And it has been successful now for seven years. You know that you can be successful for six months, for one year, but when you are successful for seven years, growing and delivering profit and value, it's significant of the fact that you have a system, which is stable, and a business in which people feel comfortable working...
...major network TV show. Thirty years later and with his elder statesmen status locked up, Cash’s experimentalist dogma led him towards more musical risks. “American V: A Hundred Highways” is the fifth, the latest, and the last in a decade-long partnership with Rick Rubin, producer of the Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their projects bucked Cash’s conventional gospel and country material, sticking mainly to alternative- and classic-rock cover songs. However, this album is confessional in a way “American...
...same colleague emerges with the proposal approved and the boss's applause seems so familiar. But what you summon up with the feelings you first had long ago is the knowledge you gained then too--that the smartest strategy is not to compete for approval but to strike a partnership with the favorite and spin the situation to benefit yourself as well. This idea did not occur to you de novo. You may know it now, but you learned it then...