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Signals from the Future: Leading in a World of Invisible Disruptions
2025
May 27, 2025
The Philippines just had an election last May 12 and with Filipinos so used to political maneuverings and entertainment-colored lens with which the candidates were viewed, the results came as a major surprise. Many candidates that emerged as winners came from the periphery – those...
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Empowering Future Innovators with R.G. Manabat & Co.’s 2025 Academic Innovation Challenge (Last of Two Parts)
2025
May 26, 2025
(Last of Two Parts) These teams stood out for their innovative use of data, problem-solving approach, and communication skills. The winning entry was particularly notable for how it visualized disparities in sectoral performance across regions and clearly linked these to poverty indices—offering insights that could...
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“Conscious Business” and What it Means for Business
2025
May 20, 2025
“How to Build Value Through Values” I first heard about conscious business from my conversations with key officers of Axialent (www.axialent.com), a company founded in 2002 by Fred Kofman. In his book “Conscious Business, How to Build Value Through Values,” the author explains that a...
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Empowering Future Innovators with R.G. Manabat & Co.’s 2025 Academic Innovation Challenge (First of Two Parts)
2025
May 19, 2025
(First of Two Parts)   Preparing students for the demands of an increasingly digital economy is a responsibility shared across sectors. Through the Academic Innovation Challenge (AIC), R.G. Manabat & Co. (KPMG in the Philippines) aims to contribute to this effort by encouraging students to...
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Philippine Innovation Hub: Pioneering a New Era of Entrepreneurship and Technological Growth
2025
May 13, 2025
The Philippine Innovation Hub, known as iHub-MEC, marks a significant milestone in the country’s push to become a regional leader in innovation and entrepreneurship. Spearheaded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the National Development Company (NDC) with the office of Cong. Stella...
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Who’s afraid of Shared Prosperity?
2025
May 12, 2025
Afraid and Indifferent In the days of imperialism and conquest, colonizers squashed the idea of Shared Prosperity (SP) because it could enable a restive people to launch a revolt. Likewise, royal dynasties and nobles, bent on keeping serfs under control, trampled on SP as an...
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Manila Bay’s Comeback: Hope Rises from the Waters
2025
May 6, 2025
On April 23, 2025, the Environment Committee of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), held its fourth Webinar on the Manila Bay Rehabilitation Program. Featured speaker Jacob F. Meimban, Jr., Executive Director of...
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Credit: The misunderstood panacea in improving the lives of farmers
2025
May 5, 2025
In the 1970s, a well-known government bank whose slogan was the “Bank on Wheels” ran ads showing its official alighting from an off-road vehicle parked in a remote and isolated place to talk to a farmer. The message conveyed by the ad was subliminal but...
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Finding Convergence in Tourism The Path to Economic Prosperity Begins from Our Beautiful Destinations
2025
April 29, 2025
For the past two decades, the Philippine economy has rested on two key pillars of foreign exchange earnings, helping to sustain its reserve position and stabilize the peso. These twin pillars—overseas Filipino worker (OFW) remittances and business process outsourcing (BPO) revenues—have provided crucial inflows that...
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