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Articles in Autumn, 2003 issue of European Business Forum

• The Pruzan Prize 2003
• Can big be beautiful?
  by Jean-Jacques Lambin
• Must we all be entrepreneurs now?
• EBF debate themes 2004
• Does humour travel?
• Fighting poverty through entrepreneurship: EBF talks to Bruno Ponson, Director of the Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Entrepreneuriat on the Island of Mauritius
• Steer clear of B-school 'spin': business schools in Europe appear to be focusing more on managing their reputation and identity than on disputing the rankings. This is a wise strategy
  by Ilja van Roon
• CSR—a religion with too many priests?
• Curriculum change in German-speaking Europe: universities are engaged in a balancing act between national traditions and global pressures
  by Peter Gomez
• Misconceptions magnified
  by Tom Gosling
• Where have all the leaders gone? By remaining silent, today's corporate leaders are worsening the bad taste left by corporate governance failures. The missing ingredients are champions of business committed to building organisations with enduring value an
  by Bill George
• Beyond leadership taboos: a coaching perspective
  by Thierry Chavel
• The need for 'tone from the top': if we are to restore the trust destroyed by recent financial scandals, everyone along the reporting supply chain will need to demonstrate they follow a best-practice code of conduct handed down from the top
  by Graham Ward
• Mirror, mirror on the wall … instead of seeking to punish organisations who rate poorly on social and environmental indices, key actors can stimulate change by opening a channel of communication between corporations and their stakeholders about the
  by Celine Louche
• How multinationals are responding to CSR: MNCs face the most difficult dilemmas because they operate in countries with widely diverging socio-economic and environmental conditions. The lesson from the last decade or so is that regulation and self-regulati
  by Ans Kolk
• China's many futures: communist China is morphing into something that will one day become a pillar of global society. In the meantime, foreign investors need to consider the many possible routes the country may take to get there
  by Jonathan Story
• China's state-owned enterprises: prepare for a turbulent flight; The Communist government needs to keep a steady footing on its plan to sell-off state owned enterprises
  by Allan Zhang
• In my opinion …
  by Giles Chance
• Navigating the Asian markets: the experience of doing business in Asia has been a sobering one for many MNCs—but companies can learn from the mistakes of others if they understand changing consumer behaviour and its strategic implications
  by Paddy Padmanabhan
• Building out of a downturn: companies are now using more management techniques to rise above tough times, and many are focusing on growth tools
  by Darrell Rigby
• Marketing expenditure trends
• Organisational identity
• Networks in context
• Leadership through terror
• The cultural imperative
• International accounting standards—managing the impact of change: the road to transparent financial reporting will present a number of challenges in resource planning, training and communication, but research suggests that the short-term pain will be
  by Yves Vandenplas
• The democratisation of luxury: the Boucicauts and the Bon Marche; After 150 years, the department store concept is still going strong thanks to a husband and wife team who pioneered the 'retail experience'—a philosophy of customer service, quality an
  by Morgen Witzel
• Sustaining value through people: a new report explores how businesses can develop their approach to their people to generate sustainable value for all stakeholders
  by David Baty
• Passing the citizen test
  by Kevin Delany
• The original celebrity CEO
  by Ian Playdon
• Boardrooms in chains
  by Tim Dickson
• Rediscover your customers: the time is right to revitalise the marketing function at board level and focus on the one stakeholder who really feeds company growth
  by John Quelch
• Put a woman on top
• Big changes at the top
• Entrepreneurs: for richer, for poorer
• Tear-away success
• German scientists from Goettingen University say they have found the reason we begin to struggle with our memory as we get older
• Most prosperous purses
• Canada calling
• Entrepreneurship variables
• Innovating Europe
• Corporate cronyism and the big chill
• Innovation integrator: EBF talks to Monica Beltrametti, vice president of Xerox Research Centre Europe
• News from EBF founders
• The 2003-2004 CEMS MIM programme—soon to launch with exclusive 'blocked seminars' for its students in Europe