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Welcome to Aik Kahani, here you will find Urdu audio stories developed for all ages but especially for children from ages 7 to 12, one of the most important stages of our lives where what we learn, do, and act upon stays with us until the end, so it's much better to learn the good things earlier. Aik Kahani can help kids differentiate between the useful and the useless which can affect the growth of a child and help them learn values through mental activities that will make them smart, produ ...
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Beyond Japan is an interdisciplinary podcast which invites you to take a look at the broad reach of Japanese Studies, both within and beyond Japan. The series is hosted and produced by Oliver Moxham (@OllieMox on Twitter), researcher of language and Japanese war heritage, and brought to you by the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia in collaboration with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Visit https://JapanInNorwich.org/Beyond-Japan ...
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ART IS KING features interviews with professional Artists, Entrepreneurs and Art Business Educators and our focus is on the Passion, Talent and Business knowledge required of an artist in order to succeed as a Professional Artist. This show is for and by Freelancers, Designers, Writers, Entrepreneurs, Art Professionals, Amateurs and Art Fans. OUR GOAL is to EDUCATE each other and commit to succeed in the art business. for more on the Art Is King mission and programs, please visit www.artiski ...
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Sophie Bacq speaks to António Calçada, Executive Managing Director of the Repsol Foundation, on how the model of corporate philanthropy is shifting from charitable giving towards investing in entrepreneurial ventures that can create positive social and environmental impact. -- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here. Discover IMD's leadership program…
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Alexa Firmenich is one of a new wave of philanthropists seeking to transform the way societies operate through purpose-led, professional interventions. In this interview, Peter Vogel explores how philanthropy has shifted from traditional charitable giving to a bolder vision. ------------- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here. Discover IMD's leader…
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French entrepreneur and mountain guide Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy explains to Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation Julia Binder how she made a profitable business model – climbing Mount Everest – more sustainable. ------- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here. Discover IMD's leadership programmes here.…
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Inspired by electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, Mate Rimac, CEO of the electric supercar company Rimac Automobili, is helping to drive a revolution in the automotive sector. He sits down for an interview with IMD's Didier Bonnet. ------- Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here. Discover IMD's leadership programmes here.…
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🔸 حکایت: ایک کافر بت پرست https://youtu.be/-9uuROmTi4cایک کافر بت پرست نے ایک دن یہ فیصلہ کر لیا تھا کہ وہ دنیا کو چھوڑ کر بت خانے کا مجاور بن جائے گا اور پھر اس نے عملاً ایسا کر کے بھی دکھا دیا تھا ۔ وہ بتوں کی خدمت میں ایسا لگا کہ ایک مدت گزر گئی ۔ پھر اس کے حالات بہت خراب ہوگئے ۔ وہ اب بت کے سامنے سجدے میں گر کر گھنٹوں روتا اور اپنے حالات کے سدھ…
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Globally, firms are coming under increasing pressure to weigh profit-making against their social and environmental responsibilities. The trend, which breaks with a long tradition of shareholder primacy, requires business leaders to understand the needs, interests, and expectations of a diverse array of stakeholders. At Rio Tinto, no one has a great…
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90% of startups fail. For all sorts of different reasons. And few people want to talk about it. But WiReD Magazine co-Founder and IMD Executive in Residence Ian Charles Stewart and Aike Festini, Founder and CEO of logistics startup Luckabox AG, are more than happy to. In our latest IMD ACE Founders Series podcast interview Stewart and Festini discu…
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As the FinTech arena moves beyond smoothing back-office processes and facilitating relationships between existing players we are seeing a new generation of B2C players rise to take on the incumbent institutions. With the rise of challenger banks, we also see hybrid organizations seeking to use new technologies and the resulting processes and public…
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Raffaello D’Andrea co-founded warehouse automation company Kiva Systems, which was sold to Amazon in 2012 for $775m and rebranded as Amazon Robotics, and then Verity, the autonomous indoor drone company now growing quickly in Zürich. He is also a Professor of Dynamic Systems & Control at Switzerland’s leading technology university ETH, in Zürich an…
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For Beyond Japan's final episode, Oliver is joined by Aike Rots, Associate Professor of Japan Studies at the University of Oslo, to discuss the agency of animals in influencing human society and cultures. Aike’s collaborative project, Whales of Power, explores how whales have affected ritual practices in coastal communities of East Asia and how tho…
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Oyster began with a question: How can we make global employment easier for companies and talented workers? Building an all-star team shouldn’t be limited by borders. Now, the company is on a mission to make it easier than ever for growing companies to hire, pay, and take care of brilliant employees - wherever they are in the world. Tony Jamous, the…
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Oliver is joined by Daniel Milne, Senior Lecturer at Kyoto University’s Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS), to discuss what happens when we memorialise past conflicts through the Kyoto Buddhist temple Ryōzen Kannon. Daniel and I explore how the meaning of monuments to war dead change over time, and compare Ryōzen Kannon’s approach with …
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In this episode of IMD's "The Interview" podcast, Sarena Lin, Chief Transformation & Talent Officer at Bayer, speaks with IMD's Professor Misiek Piskorski about digital transformation and leadership. Bayer is a global enterprise specializing in a range of life sciences fields including pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and crop management. Sarena L…
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Oliver is joined by Susan Furukawa, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Beloit College, to discuss history in fiction through works on the iconic and problematic life of 16th century shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Susan and I look at how Hideyoshi sought to establish his own literary legacy, how he has been made a hero in differe…
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یہ صرف بولتی نہیں روتی تصویر ہے، لکھنے کو بہت کچھ ہے مگر لفظ کم پڑ رہے ہیں، ویسے تو پہلی نظر میں ہی دونوں عورتوں کے حلیے بتا رہے ہیں کون پڑھا لکھا ہے اور کون ان پڑھ، کھلے بالوں کے ساتھ جینز اور بغیر دوپٹہ پہنے بیٹھی لڑکی زمانہ جاہلیت کی ترجمانی کر رہی ہے اور ساتھ میں بیٹھی ان پڑھ مائی دوپٹہ اور عبایا پہنے جدید دور کی تہذیب یافتہ ہونے کی ترجمانی کر …
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Oliver is joined by Chie Kutsuwada, UK-based manga artist, to discuss Japanese comics as art and the global spread of the genre’s art style and readership. Chie and Oliver look at what separates manga from other comic styles, the appeal to recurring themes found in the genre and the escapism it provides. IMAGE AND AUDIO CREDITS Intro-outro music: j…
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Welcome to the third series of Beyond Japan! In this episode, Oliver is joined by Randy Sasaki, researcher at the Kyushu National Museum, to discuss his specialism of underwater archaeology, otherwise known as maritime or nautical archaeology. Randy and I explore the window shipwrecks provide into international trade spanning hundreds and even thou…
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Oliver is joined by Sophie Richard, art historian, museum specialist and acclaimed writer, as we explore art museums in Japan of every variety. From her training at École du Louvre, Sophie has visited museums across the archipelago, broadening her understanding of what a museum can be and inspiring her to write a book on capturing this for the non-…
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"Influence doesn’t work the way you think, because you don’t think the way you think." So says Zoe Chance in her latest book, Influence Is Your Superpower. As a Professor at the Yale School of Management, Chance is an expert in behavioral economics, and her framework for behavior change is the foundation for Google’s global food policy. In conversa…
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Oliver is joined by Adam Hunt, PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, to compare crime between Japan and the UK and how factors such as attitudes towards former convicts affects “desistance”; that is, attempts to reduce the rate of reoffending. Read the Japanese Ministry of Defence's 2020 white paper on crime. Download the full transcript he…
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Oliver is joined by Susan Whitfield, Professor in Silk Road Studies at the Sainsbury Institute, to gain a new perspective on the mass of historic maritime and land-based routes known as the Silk Roads. Susan gives us a taste of the material and cultural impact of the enormous trade network stretching to the ends of Europe, Africa and Asia from the …
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Oliver is joined by Dr Sonia Favi, researcher at the University of Turin, to discuss the history of imagined travel. Sonia’s digital exhibition, ‘Travels in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868): A Virtual Journey’, explores how late-Edo period maps indulged the imagination of those unable to journey across the country, something all too familiar in the wake …
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***This podcast interview was recorded in 2021*** As competition in the retail banking space increases and consumers demand more services, new players are entering the market and disrupting our relationships with our wealth. One of these companies is German challenger bank Nuri. Led by CEO Kristina Walcker-Mayer, Nuri offers an on-ramp to crypto in…
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Oliver is joined by Maud Rowell, blind freelance journalist and author of Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness, to discuss Infrastructure for the Blind. Maud’s upcoming James Holman prize-winning project, ‘Where Birds Won’t Go’, will see her independently travel to the most remote regions of Japan and write a book on her experiences, al…
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Oliver is joined by Brittany Rapone, PhD candidate at the School of Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, to discuss attitudes towards pets and animal cafés in Japan. Brittany walks us through the cultural commonality of human-animal relationships and the “rent-a-pet” model of animal cafés in Japan, providing the iyashi, or “comfort”, of an…
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Oliver is joined by Viviana Andreescu, Associate Professor of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville, to discuss public opinion on capital punishment in Japan. Viviana’s 2020 article, ‘Public opinion and the death penalty in Japan’, took a look at over 2,500 responses of the Japanese General Social Survey to gauge who supports the d…
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Oliver is joined by Wuon-Gean Ho, printmaker and research associate at the University of West England’s Centre for Print Research, to discuss the place of mokuhanga, or woodblock printmaking, in the global spread of traditional crafts. Wuon-Gean Ho walks us through her path to mokuhanga, her experience learning from a master printmaker in Japan and…
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