London-headquartered, finance multinational HSBC is a stalwart of foreign banking in Lebanon, and Executive has consistently inquired with its senior management over the years about the bank’s strategies and views …
Thomas Schellen
Thomas Schellen
Thomas Schellen is Executive's editor-at-large. He has been reporting on Middle Eastern business and economy for over 20 years. Send mail
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I enjoy action thrillers. But when it comes to cinematic car chases, I suffer from acute thriller fatigue. Why am I bored by watching unrealistic, brain-numbing races in urban or …
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The company’s name harks back to a time when they were selling labels and systems to affix price stickers to items on Lebanese supermarket shelves. Having moved far from vending …
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Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Larry Page and Sergey Brin: so many of the brightest ideas that define our modern age started out as partnerships. …
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They are not actually new-new. They give banks smaller margins than they did in their previous incarnation. They are tightly controlled with very little to no wiggle room on interest …
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A recent homegrown option for rich Lebanese to invest in a fund with global reach is being pushed into the market by Banque Libano-Francaise (BLF) — in fact, it is …
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Talent management, leadership development and strategic workforce planning are the three paramount challenges that corporations across global markets have yet to master, said a recent study by The Boston Consulting …
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The Omnicom Group’s media and communications strategy business in the Middle East is carried by two main pillars: the OMD and PHD agencies. Executive visited Shadi Kandil, OMD chief executive …
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The now grown-up child of a merger of media units within the United Kingdom-based WPP communications group, Mindshare manages its media and marketing services offering for the Middle East and …
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Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) Middle East and North Africa is a regional bastion of media planning and research and part of the Paris-based Publicis Group. In 2012, it was regional …
