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AB Talks: Indra Nooyi on the need for a great corporate reckoning
Coronavirus created an environment which makes it ‘almost impossible for people to continue working’ and made the plight of essential workers harder to ignore, former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi told Arabian Business
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AB Talks: Managing ADHD in the office: What employees and employers need to know
Arabian Business spoke with ADHD expert Dr George Sachs about ways employers can create an ADHD-friendly work environment and ways employees with ADHD can cope in offices not designed for the neurodivergent
Arabian Business Awards
Video: AED230,000 prize pot up for grabs for one start-up at Arabian Business pitch contest
The prize pot for one lucky start-up has now soared past the AED 200,000 mark as our second Falcon is revealed ahead of the event on January 26.
Infinity Bridge
In pictures: Sheikh Mohammed opens $107m Infinity Bridge in Dubai
Infinity Bridge consists of six lanes in each direction in addition to a combined 3-metre-wide track for pedestrians and cyclists
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AB Talks: Are the days numbered for cash?
Dr. Saeeda Jaffar, GCC group country manager for VISA, unpacks wideranging research that shows only one percent of businesses in the UAE want to keep cash, and many are ready to accept cryptocurrency, among a host of findings
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AB Talks: Why a huge free trade deal between the UK and GCC could herald a happy new year
Simon Penney, Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for the Middle East and Her Majesty’s Consul General Dubai, joins AB Talks to discuss a free trade deal with the GCC that could be worth billions of dollars
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AB Talks: Why the UAE’s shorter work week is the right move
Fares Ghattas, Global CEO of the Luxury Network, hails the groundbreaking move by the UAE to switch to a 4.5 day working week
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AB Talks: Bonding through turbulence: Plane crash simulator is Dubai’s newest team building exercise
The plane drops. Your stomach drops, too. The lights in the cabin go out. The oxygen masks drop down; panic goes up. Smoke fills the cabin (not real smoke) – this isn’t your typical team building experience
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AB Talks: Hilton EMEA president on a 2021 of tourism growth
Simon Vincent OBE, Hilton’s president of Europe, Middle East and Africa takes stock of a busy year as 2021 as Expo Dubai 2020 rolled into town and tourism levels approached pre-pandemic levels
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AB Talks: Why the UAE’s ambition is attractive for investors
Visionary investor Victor E Friedberg, founder and general partner of New Epoch Capital, an innovative fund investing in transformative companies creating a new era of health and wellness, tells AB Talks why the UAE’s ambition and energy is a draw for investors
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AB Talks: Palazzo Versace’s Monther Darwish on Dubai’s tourism renaissance
Dubai is booming and so are many of the emirate’s hotels but what is the secret of that success? Monther Darwish, Managing Director of Palazzo Versace Dubai and Founder of Palazzo Hospitality joins AB Talks to discuss tourism, the pandemic and why innovation is the key to the future
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AB Talks: How the construction industry can build back better in a post-Covid world
Mohammed Al Ghanim, CEO of Al Hamra Kuwait, a 50-year-old veritable tycoon of the construction industry, sat down with Arabian Business to discuss how the construction industry is faring amid a general coronavirus recovery, and what challenges face the future of the sector
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AB Talks: UAE closing in on global economic partnerships
Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade and Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention, sits down with Arabian Business to talk global trade deals, some of which could be complete before the end of Expo 2020
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AB Talks: Emaar’s Mohamed Alabbar on record results, leadership and why Dubai is set to rival New York
Emaar Properties generated $7.2 billion of sales in the first nine months of this year – three times the sales of a year ago. So is this just revenge activity and pent-up demand, or is there something more fundamental driving the market? AB Talks is joined by Emaar Properties founder Mohamed Alabbar to unpack what’s happening in the market
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AB Talks: How innovation builds the future for Visa
Akshay Chopra, vice president, head of innovation and design, CEMEA, Dan Baxter, vice president of corporate communications CEMEA and Vicki Aronis, director of development for Sweid & Sweid, join AB Talks to discuss how Visa’s new 100,000 sq ft headquarters in Dubai is built to empower innovation
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AB Talks: Dubai set to welcome business world and play pivotal role in post-Covid era
Dubai Chamber and the World Chambers Federation have organised this year’s ICC World Chambers Congress, which coincides alongside Expo 2020 Dubai and takes place November 23-25, 2021