SMACK in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic in May, Liz Henderson was asked to step up and lead Merck Biopharma Asia Pacific as regional vice-president. She was halfway across the globe in the UK...
THE year 2020 has been dominated by Covid-19 and economic volatility, but for Alibaba Group vice-president Lancelot Guo, there is a clear silver lining. This is the year when many businesses have...
IN A world where renewables are gaining increasing stature, environmentalists might look askance at firms that persist in traditional energy generation. Yet that is perhaps too black-and-white a...
IZUMI Nakamitsu comes across as an easy-going and motherly figure, belying her position and reputation as one of the United Nation's top administrators.
CONSUMER goods veteran Magesvaran Suranjan's ideal customer is a woman - and not just any woman.
TO LOSE is to win. That's the mantra that Melissa Kwee, CEO of National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC), abides by.
THE trauma of fleeing a war-torn country as a refugee is one that could make or break a person. For Omar Shokur, who fled Afghanistan in 1990 at age 14 with his family, the experience was painful...
DHEERAJ Pandey is the quintessential US immigrant success story. He has achieved success by sheer dint of hard work, talent, and a risk-taking instinct. In 1997, when he was in his early 20s, he...
FEW industries have been spared the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, but technology stands out as a clear beneficiary of the lockdowns and border closures that have swept the globe this year....
RESEARCH and commercialisation are often seen as separate processes, with scientists handing their findings off to business people. Yet integrating the two is what Eugene Fitzgerald seeks to do,...
