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Event: The Global Social Venture Competition Organized By: Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley in partnership with Columbia Business School, London Business School, Indian School of Business, and Yale School of Management Key Dates: Asia Region- Submit to the Indian School of Business Executive

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Frequent Flyer Programs By Ken Lordis The FFP or Frequent Flyer Programs that airlines use to maintain customer loyalty appear to be in a state of confusion. They started out as a “good” thing that slowly started to go “bad”, but we’re about to see things get really “ugly” no doubt due to the high cost of fuel.

The MIT Arab Business Plan Competition is a competition designed to encourage all entrepreneurs in the Arab world to start their own company and, ultimately, create a nest of leading firms in the Arab world. It also brings to the Arab world all the MIT expertise in entrepreneurship and in running such competitions.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Frequent Flyer Programs By Ken Lordis The FFP or Frequent Flyer Programs that airlines use to maintain customer loyalty appear to be in a state of confusion. They started out as a “good” thing that slowly started to go “bad”, but we’re about to see things get really “ugly” no doubt due to the high cost of fuel.

It’s time to vote for the Forbes.com “Boost Your Business” contest winner. One for recently formed small company (several of which are green startups) will win $100,000 and lots of great PR.  Five finalists have been whittled down from over 1,500 applicants, and it is time to pick the winner.

This initiative called “Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing” seeks to nurture individuals/teams/startup companies with environmentally beneficial business proposals with the eventual hope of transforming them into reality.

Here is a link to the competition’s site and here is a snippet from The Business Examiner-Enterprise: The Bartlesville Development Corporation in conjunction with Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Rogers State University, and Tri County Technology Center will conduct the area’s first Business Plan Competition that will begin immediately and conclude with the naming of the winning entry on March 27.

War! Attack! Response! Competency! Retreat! No, a war isn’t on. These are the words firms use in business world when faced with competition. And that is where, strategy comes in. In the words of Michael Porter: ‘Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different’ According to me, the most interesting thing in this whole world is strategy.

Modern retail is touted to be the next big thing in India. It is expected to multiply ten-fold in the next few years. Major Indian players like Reliance and Aditya Birla Group have also jumped into the fray. International bigwigs like Walmart are also likely to make an entry through joint ventures into the Indian retail market.

You’re Naturally Good at This October 7th 2008 Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, has at least one thing they are naturally good at. It’s something they LOVE to do. Something they would do even if they didn’t get paid for it. What’s your natural talent? What do you love to do? It could be something as simple as crossword puzzles.