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As one of the world’s most influential business hubs, the Middle East requires expert attention. Business Extra provides those experts, as well as news and insights from The National’s esteemed team of business editors and reporters, who are on top of the markets, technology, the energy sector and more.
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
What it will take to rebuild a shattered Beirut
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
This week, Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner talk to Fadi Adra, a partner with Strategy&, on the impact assessment his team did to help route aid to those most in need in Beirut.
In this episode:
The Strategy& impact assessment (0m 51s)
What are the urgent needs in Beirut? (5m 05s)
What do the numbers tell us about progress? (8m 40s)
How did Covid affect Lebanon after the blast? (11m 21s)
How are surveys helping? (13m 00s)
NGO's and crisis consultation (15m 13s)
Private sectors and Lebanon's rise (16m 58s)
Commercial competition in space (20m 30s)
Headlines (22m 20s)
Read more on our website:
• Two planes loaded with 30 tonnes of aid leave Dubai for Beirut
In this episode:
The Strategy& impact assessment (0m 51s)
What are the urgent needs in Beirut? (5m 05s)
What do the numbers tell us about progress? (8m 40s)
How did Covid affect Lebanon after the blast? (11m 21s)
How are surveys helping? (13m 00s)
NGO's and crisis consultation (15m 13s)
Private sectors and Lebanon's rise (16m 58s)
Commercial competition in space (20m 30s)
Headlines (22m 20s)
Read more on our website:
• Two planes loaded with 30 tonnes of aid leave Dubai for Beirut
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Aldar’s Greg Fewer is optimistic for signs of recovery by year-end
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
The chief financial and sustainability officer is optimistic for signs of recovery by year-end. Greg Fewer, Aldar’s chief financial and sustainability officer, joins host Kelsey Warner to talk about financial results from an unprecedented second quarter.
They discuss what Abu Dhabi’s biggest developer and asset manager did to manage losses at the peak of shutdown measures, and how it plans to sustain and grow in the months to come. Also in this episode, Mr Fewer shares his outlook for real estate, what sustainability means to a publicly listed company in 2020 and why Aldar is now accepting credit cards for rental payments.
In this episode:
How Aldar got through Q2 (0m 38s)
Flexibility for tenants (6m 32s)
How is Aldar moving with the times? (13m 39s)
Aldar and sustainability (19m 19s)
Headlines (22m 48s)
Read more on our website:
• Aldar Properties Q2 net profit jumps 2% on higher revenue
They discuss what Abu Dhabi’s biggest developer and asset manager did to manage losses at the peak of shutdown measures, and how it plans to sustain and grow in the months to come. Also in this episode, Mr Fewer shares his outlook for real estate, what sustainability means to a publicly listed company in 2020 and why Aldar is now accepting credit cards for rental payments.
In this episode:
How Aldar got through Q2 (0m 38s)
Flexibility for tenants (6m 32s)
How is Aldar moving with the times? (13m 39s)
Aldar and sustainability (19m 19s)
Headlines (22m 48s)
Read more on our website:
• Aldar Properties Q2 net profit jumps 2% on higher revenue
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
How Lebanon's economy went 'beyond the brink'
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
This week, Nassib Ghobril, head of economic research at Lebanon’s Byblos Bank, and Massoud Derhally, The National's business editor, join host Kelsey Warner to discuss Lebanon's precarious economic future.
In this episode:
Hassan Diab's resignation (0m 5s)
Nassib Ghobril on Lebanon's economic status (1m 13s)
Lebanon since the civil war (4m 17s)
IMF bailout for Lebanon (6m 39s)
The new government and the financial system (12m 31s)
What can we expect this year for Lebanon? (16m 09s)
Read more on our website:
• Beirut explosion to deepen Lebanon's economic contraction to 24%, IIF says
In this episode:
Hassan Diab's resignation (0m 5s)
Nassib Ghobril on Lebanon's economic status (1m 13s)
Lebanon since the civil war (4m 17s)
IMF bailout for Lebanon (6m 39s)
The new government and the financial system (12m 31s)
What can we expect this year for Lebanon? (16m 09s)
Read more on our website:
• Beirut explosion to deepen Lebanon's economic contraction to 24%, IIF says
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Business Extra Special: ENEC’s Mohamed Al Hammadi on UAE’s nuclear energy ambitions
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
On this special edition of Business Extra, Kelsey Warner talks to Mohamed Al Hammadi, chief executive of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, about the Barakah nuclear power station and UAE’s nuclear energy ambitions.
In this episode:
In this episode:
On the moment Unit 1 powered on (0m 47s)
How nuclear energy fits into the UAE's Energy Strategy 2050 (3m 41s)
When Units 2, 3 and 4 will be ready (6m 23s)
Building a local team and community in Al Dhafra (8m 47s)
Lessons in leadership during Covid-19 (13m 39s)
Future of nuclear energy (16m 55s)
Read more on our website:
• Barakah Nuclear Power Station: Energy today for UAE's tomorrows
Read more on our website:
• Barakah Nuclear Power Station: Energy today for UAE's tomorrows
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Microsoft finds the 9-to-5 workday is fading away
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
New research from Microsoft found that the expectation of the 9 to 5 is starting to slip away amid the global shift to remote work.
The US tech company, which owns email service Outlook and event manager Calendar, as well as LinkedIn and search engine Bing, has one of the biggest data sets on who we are and what we do at work. It mined its trillions of data points based on emails, meetings, searches and posts to come up with its Work Trends Index.
To discuss the company's findings, host Kelsey Warner is joined by Naim Yazbeck, a director for Microsoft UAE. They talk about who is being most affected by the WFH experiment, a surprising uptick in a specific emotion - empathy - and how to avoid burnout.
In this episode:
What have we learned from working from home? (0m 34s)
Which generation finds WFH the most challenging? (8m 52s)
Headlines (16m 34s)
Read more on our website:
• Eight in 10 people expect flexible work from home policies post Covid-19, Microsoft survey finds
In this episode:
What have we learned from working from home? (0m 34s)
Which generation finds WFH the most challenging? (8m 52s)
Headlines (16m 34s)
Read more on our website:
• Eight in 10 people expect flexible work from home policies post Covid-19, Microsoft survey finds
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