Nisreen Shocair, President, Virgin Megastore, Patrick Chalhoub, Joint CEO, Chalhoub Group, Marwan Moukarzel, Deputy CEO, Azadea Group, Srinivas Rajagopalan, Chief Human Resources Officer, Landmark Group, Kevin Gill, Chief Executive Officer, Start, UK, and Ulf Smedberg, Head of Marketing, IKEA, Asia Pacific are just some of the 20+ speakers confirmed to speak at the upcoming Retail…

The traditional 9-5 workplace will soon be a memory of the past. According to a study, 40% of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers by 2020. Instead of hiring full-time employees, organizations are becoming more and more dependent on outsourced transient talent. This evolving workplace, with contributors from all over the world, introduces new challenges…

Focus on making connections to ensure smooth negotiation. The use of force in ensuring successful negotiations today is overrated, says Professor Stuart Diamond, Google’s top negotiator. Instead, the world-renowned negotiator says that it is better to focus on making personal connections to ensure a smooth negotiation. Diamond, who is a professor at the Wharton School…

Author of the New York Times Bestselling book GETTING MORE: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life and one of the world’s most renowned and master negotiators is coming to Dubai this year. Professor Diamond has advised and trained executives and managers from 220 of the Fortune 500 companies and more than…

Some of the world’s top retail minds, including professor and bestselling author Lerzan Aksoy, Tim Keiningham, Nitin Sanghavi and Chris Roebuck will be joining an impressive line-up of speakers from companies such as IKEA, Chalhoub Group, Gap, Dubai Duty Free, Deloitte and Ipsos. Over two (2) information-packed days, executives will get the opportunity to network,…

The Advanced Certificate for the Executive Personal Assistant (ACEPA™) course is designed to help executive personal assistants and secretaries successfully meet the increasingly demanding roles that are expected of them in the modern corporate environment.

The US based New York Institute of Management (NYIM) is launching a new initiative for the global retail industry, “The Retail Leaders Circle” (RLC), a preeminent global retail education destination dedicated to provide the world’s retail executives with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performance and better serve global market needs.

More than 100 countries including India, China and Russia have already entered into agreements with the US on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and with new FATCA requirements coming into effect on 1st of January 2015 applying to U.S. and non-U.S insurers and insurance brokers, large portions of the financial services sector are…

With Wealth Management becoming a major point of interest for the GCC market and its associated institutions, the Wealth Management Symposium that will take place on 14 – 15th of December at the JW Marriott Marquis Hotel in Dubai, UAE will offer insights into applications of Wealth Management by presenting market principles from Switzerland, the…

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a new US law aimed at foreign financial institutions (FFIs) and other financial intermediaries to prevent tax evasion by US citizens and residents through the use of offshore accounts. It represents a complex and costly compliance task being forced upon financial services firms globally by the US…