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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

BBCWorldwide 15/10/2012 - Carlos Ghosn and Vineet Nayar - Ideas Exchange - BBC


Carlos Ghosn and Vineet Nayar - Ideas Exchange - BBC Two more head of international business meet to exchange ideas. Carlos Ghosn spent 18 years at Europe's largest tyre maker, Michelin, before joining Renault in 1996. He has turned around the fortunes of Japanese carmaker Nissan and has been at the helm of the Renault-Nissan alliance since 2005. Vineet Nayar has been at HCL Technologies (HCLT), a global IT services company, for more than a quarter of a decade. He became president in 2005 and since then HCLT's workforce has tripled to 85,000 people. Now chief executive, he believes companies need to listen to their employees if they are ever going to meet the needs of their customers.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Kathleen Taylor and David Neeleman - Ideas Exchange - BBC


Two more heads of international business meet to exchange ideas. Kathleen Taylor, chief executive of Canada's Four Seasons luxury hotel group, is credited with taking the company outside its traditional markets and jumpstarting the largest expansion in its history. David Neeleman made his name in the airline business, founding US low-cost airlines Morris Air and JetBlue. The Brazilian-born American entrepreneur then founded Brazilian carrier Azul in 2008, seeing good opportunities in South America's fastest-growing economy.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Martin Varsavsky and Carlos Moncayo - Ideas Exchange - BBC


Argentine-Spanish entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has founded seven companies over the past 20 years. These include telecoms provider Viatel and, more recently, fon.com, which aims to create a global community of wifi users. Ecuadorian Carlos Moncayo and his two brothers founded Asiam, a Shanghai-based offshore manufacturing management company that specialises in clothing, in 2003. The company now ships more than $34m worth of clothing per year. Mr Moncayo was voted Asia's Best Young Entrepreneur by Businessweek magazine in 2009.

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