Integrations by Maya Baltazar Herrera
Still
"We can only make the correct choices if we truly understand the situation." It’s the middle of May and...
Dealing with Ennui: From Languishing to Flourishing
'As we teeter between the hope of an end to the pandemic and the horror of continuing losses, we must learn...
Policy Myopia: How wishful thinking, perverse incentives lead to disaster
"What do Greensill Capital’s bankruptcy and India’s second Covid-19 surge have in common?" At first blush, the two tales...
Financial shenanigans: Archegos and what we have not seemed to learn
"How Bill Hwang used derivatives to fly under disclosure regulations and lost billions for global banks." It was the type...
How Lazada lost Southeast Asia to Shopee
"You ignore people at your peril. Customers, sellers, employees. They are the heart of your enterprise." When Alibaba bought a...
Steering through Change and Uncertainty: Lessons from Nokia, Garena and Shopee
"At the heart of every good strategy is preserving the company’s ability to change" A key responsibility of any leader...
Eleventh hour
"The things that work are not a matter of government mandate. They are a matter of citizenship." In the...
One year after
Almost exactly one year ago, on 16 March 2020, Luzon entered enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), the most stringent of the...
Being Good
"Vaccine delivery from Pfizer: under negotiation" The Philippines received 525,60000 doses of AstraZaneca vaccines through the COVAX facility in...
The Covid-19 Vaccine: The Basics
"No vaccinated person has been hospitalized for, or died from COVID-19." Monday this week, COVID-19 mass vaccinations officially rolled...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.