Portfolio | December 2010

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Issue 60 ■ December 2010

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SOUTH AFRICA

Making Innovation Pay

WHITE JADE

China’s New Bonanza

HI-TECH CARS No Driver Required

Ian Schrager Partnering with Bill Marriott

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Cover Story Strange Bedfellows Abi [hnmbjn^ ahm^eb^k% BZg L\akZ`^k% bl mZdbg` ma^ [b``^lm `Zf[e^ h_ abl \Zk^^k È [r cnfibg` bgmh [^] pbma ma^ phke]Íl [b``^lm \aZbg hi^kZmhk FZkkbhmm' A^ m^eel CZf^l Kb\aZk]lhg par a^ mabgdl bmÍl Z `k^Zm [nlbg^ll fho^'

Features 40 An Innovative Approach

52 Opening Up Closed Professions

The South African government is throwing its weight behind

Greece is full of ‘closed professions’, which means entry to

entrepreneurs and innovators hoping for more job creation

around 70 jobs is bound up in a tangle of regulations and

and further diversification of its economy.

licensing requirements. This system costs Greece billions of dollars annually and the government is now taking steps to

47 Local Government Evolution

dismantle it.

The UK’s financial cuts are forcing city and town halls

58 Jade Bonanza

across the country to radically rethink their current business plan. One municipal authority has even gone

As the Chinese become more affluent they can indulge their

so far as to outsource all of its services.

love affair with jade. As a result the finest jade is now more expensive than gold, which has created a boom in the town of Khotan.

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COVER PHOTO: ALBERTO GUGLIELMI

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Essentials 65 A Hot Tradition South Koreans have rediscovered the tradition of baking inside charcoal-making kilns at a temperature of around 138°C. They believe it is therapeutic and has health benefits.

72 Sticks and Stones – and Art Patrick Dougherty has made a name for himself by sculpting tree saplings into anything his imagination comes

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up with. But his first and only lasting project is his home.

76 Pop-up Cuisine London’s pop-up restaurants give rising chefs the opportunity to star without a major financial layout, while diners get a culinary adventure.

80 Intelligent Cars Google has been testing cars that drive autonomously using artificial-intelligence software. Although the vehicles have shown

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huge promise, their deployment is still years away.

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Departments

84 Use It or Lose It? Could it be that early retirement is linked to memory decline? A recent study suggests there is a relationship.

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86 100% Porsche

World business in a nutshell.

Forget the previous generation, the new Cayenne S delivers on everything the Porsche badge stands for and more.

19 Observer Spotting and analysing business trends.

28 Column: Frank Bures

88 Other Business Portfolio takes a light-hearted look at the latest business news.

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BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dilma Rousseff has been elected Brazil’s president.

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Resumés Rewritten

TEXT: HEBA HASHEM

Madonna she’s not slowing down

payment would totally eclipse her

as this year saw the

previous earnings; in 2007, she signed

launch of the Material

a 10-year contract worth a ‘mere’ $125

Girl clothing line with

million with promoter Live Nation.

daughter Lourdes, 13,

to succeed. Numerous record labels

directing her second film,

were unimpressed with her voice but

W.E., for release next

she kept battling away until she got her

year. Just how much

big break. Today, she still displays that

Madonna is worth is

same grit and determination. Her toned

hard to determine. Based

muscles, versatility and dazzling dance

on her 200 million plus

moves testify to the minimum three

record sales and her

hours she spends in the gym daily.

profitable tours a best

So it is no surprise that Madonna’s

estimate is between

latest venture is aimed at the lucrative

$380 and $500 million.

fitness industry. From yoga and Pilates

However, when you add

to the Power Plate and Gyrotonic

her endorsements, music

Expansion System, Madonna has done

royalties (she writes

them all. The Material Girl joined forces

most of her own songs),

with 24 Hour Fitness founder Mark

fashion line, children’s

Mastrov and her manager Guy Oseary

books and various other

to launch the health-club project. The

projects the figure is

global chain of fitness clubs has been

much higher.

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album and the first gym opened in

for Madonna (it’s her

November in Mexico City. Madonna,

real name) Louise

Mastrov and Oseary plan to expand

Veronica Ciccone who

to Russia, Brazil, Argentina, as well as

WITH HER BANGLES, LACE GLOVES,

was better known in the Eighties for her

biker’s jacket and black ankle boots,

bold, sometimes outrageous, outfits.

Arnold Schwarzenegger went from

there will only ever be one pop queen.

Most critics wrote her off as a short-

bodybuilder to Hollywood action star

Music icon Madonna has been setting

lived phenomenon but Madonna proved

and governor of California. Madonna

trends for more than two decades,

them wrong by continuously adapting to

is going from queen of pop to fitness

reinventing her appearance for every new

trends and ensnaring new generations

guru. But few would doubt that even if

album. And it has paid off, with Madonna

of music fans. There’s no questioning

she had started in the fitness world she

earning around $58 million in 2009-10.

her star power and reports have recently

probably would still have made it to the

Her tour last year was the fourth-highest-

surfaced in the media that Las Vegas

top. Singer, songwriter, director, actress,

grossing, bringing in $6 million a night

is offering her $1 billion for a five-year

author, fashion designer, fitness guru…

and $138 million overall. And at 52,

performing residency. The megabucks

This lady has one fantastic resumé. ■

other locations in Europe and Asia.

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Helping the Poor Billionaire Vinod Khosla believes that commercial entities can do more to help the world’s needy than most non-profit charitable organisations.

He’s willing to invest his own money to prove it, reports Vikas Bajaj.

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Vinod Khosla believes that moneymaking ventures grow faster and are more effective in reducing poverty than nonprofit approaches.

Microfinance has enabled thousands of poor Indians to get the necessary loans to start their own small businesses.

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Gisele Bündchen

$25 million

Brazil

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Heidi Klum

$16 million

Germany

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Kate Moss

$9 million

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Adrian Lima

$7.5 million

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Doutzen Kroes

$6 million

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Alessandra Ambrosio

$5.5 million

Brazil

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Natalia Vodianova

$5.4 million

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Daria Werbowy

$4.5 million

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Miranda Kerr

$4 million

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No Laughing Matter Avanir Pharmaceuticals has won U.S. approval for a drug that curbs bouts of uncontrolled laughing or crying in patients with neurological disorders.

The medicine, Nuedexta, is the first approved to treat patients with multiple sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease who develop symptoms known as the pseudobulbar affect that causes loss of emotional control.

Avanir, which has no other products on the market, plans to begin selling the drug in the first three months of 2011.

The announcement saw Avanir immediately gain $2.75, or more than 113 per cent, to $5.17 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The medicine may have sales of $275 million by 2013, and analysts are rating the shares a buy with an average 12-month target price of $9.23.

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Goodbye Pontiac Pontiac is no more after 84 years. The General Motors brand was known for muscle cars that drag-raced down boulevards, parked

Gary Kovacs

at drive-ins and roared across movie screens.

The brand has been moribund since GM decided to kill it last year as it collapsed into bankruptcy and was in decline for years before that. On October 31 GM’s dealer agreements ended,

After a long hunt Mozilla

which made Pontiac’s

finally found a new CEO after

demise official.

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was undone by a

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combination of poor

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corporate strategy and

heavyweight competitors.

changing driver tastes.

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Pontiac’s sales peaked at about one million in 1968,

browser space with 59.7 per cent market share, according to

when the brand’s speedier models were prized for their powerful

Net Applications. And the latest version, IE9, is seen as giving

engines and scowling grills. Buick is now filling the Pontiac niche

Microsoft a fighting chance to make up for missteps. Meanwhile,

with GM putting its resources behind the brand.

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Bill Marriott, Ian Schrager and Marriott executive Arne Sorenson announced their partnership at Schrager's Gramercy Park Hotel in 2007.

Many critics believed the relationship wouldn't work.

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A car powered by Zebra batteries, which were invented in South Africa but are now manufactured in Switzerland.

The Joule is an electric car that is totally produced in South Africa

South Africa is competing against Australia for the Square Kilometre Array, which will be the most powerful radio telescope ever built.

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Local Government Evolution City and town halls and county councils across England are radically changing. As one municipal authority opts to outsource all of its services, what other ‘inconceivable’ ideas are the UK’s financial cuts forcing through? Anna Bawden investigates.

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Greek truckers blockaded the borders for weeks when the government tried to issue new trucking licenses in an attempt to open up the profession.

Opening Up Closed Professions

© 2010 NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Greece is full of ‘closed professions’, which means entry to around 70 jobs such as pharmacist, lawyer or even newsstand operator are bound up in a tangle of regulations and licensing requirements. This system costs Greece billions of dollars annually and the government is now taking steps to dismantle it, reports Suzanne Daley.

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Regulations and licensing requirements govern more than 70 professions. In Greece, newsstand operator licenses are reserved for war veterans, the disabled and those with large families to support.

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“Each profession is protected from competition by a byzantine tangle of regulations and licensing requirements that results in high prices for consumers and a reliable living for insiders.”

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Greek pharmacists make 35 per cent on every medicine they sell. That's good news for pharmacists who get a license, but bad news for the consumer.

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mh Ma^[^l% Z[hnm 0+ dbehf^mk^l% maZg

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bm bl \a^Zi^k mh labi `hh]l _khf <abgZ

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mh @k^^\^ maZg bm bl mh fho^ ma^f _khf

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[eh\d^] ma^ [hk]^kl _hk p^^dl% \k^Zmbg`

Zg] bg ?kZg\^ k^\^gmer' FZgr [^eb^o^ maZm

lahkmZ`^l h_ Zee dbg]l% bg\en]bg` _n^e'

mZ\debg` \ehl^] ikh_^llbhgl pbee f^Zg ^o^g

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phkd' Pbmabg Z _^p p^^dl% ahp^o^k% phkd

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou faces the huge task of cutting the country’s deficit.

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“Businessmen say it is cheaper to ship goods from China to Greece than it is to move them from Athens to the island of Rhodes, 459 kilometres away.

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Containers in the Greek port of Piraeus were left stranded when the truckers went on strike. Trucking licenses can sell for up to $500,000, but if the government issues new ones this value would plummet.

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“Many of these regulations violate European Union rules on the free movement of goods and services. And Greece’s creditors have demanded an overhaul of the country’s closed professions as part of its rescue plan.”

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Taxi drivers are also part of a closed profession. The result is uniform fares and a shortage of taxis due to licensing requirements.

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ma^g \Zg ikZ\mb\^ hger ma^k^' :g] ma^r

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ma^bk eh\Ze [Zk Zllh\bZmbhgl% pab\a bg mnkg

bm bl Z ]b__^k^gm lmhkr bg ma^ lfZee^k mhpgl'

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chbg mahl^ [Zk Zllh\bZmbhgl' Ma^r phne]gÍm

maZm iZrf^gml _khf ma^ [Zk a^k^ Zk^ o^kr

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lfZee% i^kaZil Z ebmme^ fhk^ maZg *%)))

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The aptly named White Jade River is the source of Khotan’s jade boom.

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White Jade River JAMMU AND KASHMIR

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The Khotan jade market trades seven days a week. Prospectors sell their goods to Chinese middlemen who monopolise the carving of jade.

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Khotan’s native Uighurs have made a fortune harvesting and selling white jade.

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A pile of jade at the Khotan market. Some prime jade pieces have commanded a price of $3,000 an ounce, a 10-fold increase from a decade ago.

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Roasting inside a charcoal kiln has become a craze in South Korea, but it has its roots in local tradition, much like the sauna in Finland.

December 2010

South Koreans have rediscovered the tradition of baking inside charcoal-making kilns at a temperature of around 138째C. They believe it is therapeutic and has health benefits, reports Choe Sang-hun.

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The Gangwon Oak Charcoal facility is situated close to the town of Hoengseong, 90 kilometres east of Seoul.

The charcoal kilns reach temperatures of 1,400°C. By the time people use them as a sauna temperatures still hover around 138°C.

Relaxing in a hot charcoal kiln has become the latest craze in South Korea. Urban spas, called Jjimjilbang, revived the memories of traditional kiln heat baths.

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“There are now about 150 charcoal kiln complexes around South Korea, many of which have also made their kilns available for heat baths. There are another 150 complexes whose kilns are used exclusively for heat baths.”

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The demand for charcoal has risen in the last decade as eating food cooked over coals has become trendy again.

A worker fills a kiln with oak timber at Gangwon Oak Charcoal. The company makes a tenth of its revenue from people paying $9 for a kiln heat bath.

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Oak logs stay in the kiln for a week to create charcoal. Then the kilns are allowed to cool for two days before the cycle starts again.

“Today, housewives often keep pieces of charcoal in their living rooms to absorb smells and purify the air. In Seo’s complex, some tourists come to gaze at the charcoal glowing in kilns at night, believing this cleanses their minds.”

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A family rests after a session in a kiln. Koreans have a strong belief in the therapeutic powers of charcoal and clay.

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Sticks and Stones – and Art Patrick Dougherty has made a name for himself by sculpting tree saplings into anything his imagination comes up with. But his first and only lasting project is his home, reports Penelope Green.

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Dougherty’s first sculpture class assignment has pride of place at his home. Since then he has made more than 200 pieces for sites all around the world.

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The installation ‘Natural History’ was exhibited in August at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York. Dougherty does nine works annually and most of them break down after a year or two in the wild.

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The Loft Project, a pop-up restaurant in East London, is a showcase for a new generation of chefs such as Rob Martin (left) and Ivo Galvaoin.

Pop-up Cuisine London’s pop-up restaurants give rising chefs the opportunity to star, while diners get a culinary adventure, reports Oliver Strand.

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The Dock Kitchen started as a pop-up restaurant in the Ladbroke Grove studio of furniture designer Tom Dixon. Today, it is a fully operational restaurant.

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Forget the previous generation, the new Cayenne S delivers on everything the Porsche badge stands for and more, reports Guido Duken.

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The second-generation Cayenne keeps the classic Porsche front, but the rear is completely new.

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The rear of the Cayenne S takes design cues from the Panamera with its wider, curving tail lights. Although larger, the new Cayenne S actually looks sportier and sleeker than its predecessor.

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Gone is the old interior. The new dashboard layout is inspired by the Panamera, adding a real touch of functional class.

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LIBERAL GENE A new study has concluded that

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ideology is not just a social thing; it’s

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focused on 2,000 subjects from The

gene called DRD4. Tagged ‘the

National Longitudinal Study of

liberal gene’, DRD4 is the first

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predisposes people to certain

each individual’s social network, the

political views.

researchers were able to show that

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people with a specific variant of the

more open, said lead researcher

DRD4 gene were more likely to be

James Fowler, a professor of both

liberal as adults – though only if they

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