By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 17th January 2011.
The question of whether entrepreneurial skills can be taught in college has vexed many a brilliant academic. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 3rd January 2011.
Information technology often brings together innovative hobbyists seeking “to do some good”. Over a period of time their labours of love create new industry elements the rest of us consume. The technology migrates from accessible free channels created by entrepreneurs to tightly controlled ones managed by a few corporations for which the pursuit of profit is the driving force. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 27th December 2010.
It’s that time of year again, the end of the Gregorian calendar. It’s when executives calculate their expected bonuses. Companies tot up their end-of-year financials and congratulate themselves on how well they have done. And people at a personal level set new-year resolutions, such as buying a gym membership, which never gets used more than once or twice in that year. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 13th December 2010.
The road to senior management is littered with landmines concerning business ethics. Well, it is if you speak to academics teaching MBA courses at business schools. It is not if you ask most of the students, who really could not care less. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 22nd November 2010.
Sometimes customers are crying out for your products and services but the barriers to serving those customers are just too difficult to overcome, so companies don’t bother. My parents’ home town is one such place. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 4th October 2010.
Thousands of business incubators have been set up around the world, mainly by governments and universities, which is probably one reason that they do not succeed in creating viable entrepreneurial businesses. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 27th September 2010.
Last week, Vince Cable, the UK coalition government’s business secretary, made a scathing attack on the “murky” world of high finance in his speech at the Liberal Democrats conference in Liverpool. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 13th September 2010.
Last week some Pakistani banker friends of mine described their country as a basket case. Over the years, their country has become a lost cause, they said. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 6th September 2010.
Any entrepreneur will testify that two of the greatest barriers to success are regulation and access to resources. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 28th June 2010.
There is a wonderful line spoken by the fictitious company promoter Mr Goldbury in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia Limited: “Though a Rothschild you may be in your own capacity; as a company you’ve come to utter sorrow; but the liquidators say, ‘Never mind, you needn’t pay’; so you start another company tomorrow!” Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 7th June 2010.
Growth in international markets is sluggish. The local economy isn’t faring much better. But in every organisation there is one place of enormous expansion – around the waistlines of workers. Read more »