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LCF: Invest in human capital
Michael Alan Hamlin
Two billion children in the developing world are our future
The annual League of Corporate Foundations’ (LCF) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Expo wound up a week ago last Wednesday. This three-day conference and exhibition had as this year’s theme, “Putting CSR to the Test: Cultivating Shared Values for Business and Society.” Its approximately 130 speakers and panelists are executives of the Philippines’ leading domestic corporations and multinationals operating in the Philippines and local and international authorities on CSR.
This post was originally written during the first-day sessions, which featured presentations by Dr. Christopher Thomas, sector manager for Education in the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank; Manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman of PLDT; and Cesar B. Bautista, co-chair of the President’s Task Force for Globally Competitive Service Industries. The morning’s keynote speaker was President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
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7/28/2007 9:32:07 AM |
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Swords into plowshares….
Paul Bograd
or… err… uhm… Coffee Beans!
I just reemerged from an all-night, death defying rumble through the Central Highlands of Vietnam…Pleiku, Buon Ma Thuot, Dalat, all vicious blood letting battlefields of the 1970’s.
Now stop right there! I know that you are thinking that I am off on some Apocalypse Now induced flashback in the guise of my recent cinema inspired Asian Pundit contributions. But really, I just got back.
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7/24/2007 2:12:12 PM |
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High school allergy
Orly Mercado
It was an urgent telephone call. A dear friend and fellow professor who opened doors for me here in Japan wanted to know if I could help her find an English teacher for a private junior and senior high school. The previous teacher, a foreigner, suddenly quit. There was still a month and a half left in the current semester. Actually, she had volunteered to teach some of the subjects and wanted to know if I was interested in handling the others. I said no. I had never taught high school students. Neither had I taught English as a subject.
In the end I relented. If the schedule could be worked around my current teaching load in the college, it would be fine. How difficult could that be, I thought to myself. My father was a high school teacher. Maybe it was in my genes to do this job. Anyway, it might turn out to be a learning experience. It did.
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7/21/2007 12:15:58 AM |
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INDEPENDENCE DAY the Movie and Zero Sum Games
Paul Bograd
Maybe somebody has to lose?
Well I counted it up yesterday. I’ve been gone from AsianPundit.com for 6 months. No excuses; just caught up in other work, a bit of geo-political alienation I suppose and no small measure of laziness.
I am not sure how to jump back into AsianPundit, after being away for so long.
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7/11/2007 12:35:50 PM |
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Edifice Complex
Orly Mercado
Building monuments of folly
The result of an on-line poll for the new “seven wonders of the world” has been announced. The list is different from what I used to memorize in school as a kid. But whether it’s the old list that included architectural wonders no longer in existence, or the new popular ones, one thing is for sure: some were built by rich and powerful men suffering from an “edifice complex.”
The desire to leave a legacy that would endure beyond our mortal existence is as old as civilization itself. It is also not confined to kings, pharaohs or warlords. Even poor or developing countries have leaders at the national or local level, eager to fulfill some architectural dream, which could be a taxpayer’s nightmare.
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7/8/2007 11:29:43 PM |
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Leadership in BPO
Michael Alan Hamlin
SPi is the global leader in publishing and strategic content outsourcing services
There were many highlights to last week’s Cebu ICT 2007 conference. Five plenary sessions took place June 26 at the magnificent Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort & Spa, and 12 breakout sessions and a number of other, related activities took place at the Cebu International Convention Center June 27. On both days, participants not only arrived early, they stayed late, until the last speaker or panelist had concluded.
I should disclose that my firm designed the sessions, recruited the 85 speakers and managed and produced Cebu ICT 2007 on behalf of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce & Industry with the support of 47 major sponsors and close to a hundred exhibitors. So if I come across as a bit over-the-top in my enthusiasm, bear in mind that in terms of sponsors, exhibitors, delegates, and visitors this year’s conference substantially exceeded its inaugural two years ago.
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7/5/2007 4:20:20 PM |
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Appearances can be deceiving
Michael Alan Hamlin
The peril of irrational enthusiasm
Last week, I wrote that Cebu is emerging as a strong, tier-two center for business process outsourcing (BPO) services after Manila. Hardly a day goes by without an investor announcing an agreement or plans to build a facility that will employ thousands in Manila, Cebu, and other emerging BPO centers such as Baguio, Dumaguete, and Davao.
Looking inward, our impression of the fast-growing BPO industry is that things couldn’t be better. But two recent studies of the global industry indicate that the Philippines should not be complacent. The two studies are A.T. Kearney’s semi-annual Global Services Location Index and The Black Book of Outsourcing survey, conducted annually by the Brown-Wilson Group.
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7/3/2007 7:55:23 PM |
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