MBAs, Media & the Middle East.

Kevin Kelly inspired.

A super tardy even by standards of this blog review of the MBA 2011 first year spring semester at Columbia Business School.

The Economist’s annual Which MBA? is out.

Reposting an old review of the essential China Shakes the World by James Kynge.

Global Immersion China post: Shang-Jin Wei thinks Male : Female ratios can explain China’s outsized saving rate.

Dubai, at the vanguard of globalization and home to a monumental property bubble (relative to its tiny economy), has not taken the Great Deleveraging well.
Looking strategically beyond the bubble fall-out lies a huge opportunity for a sustainable Dubai recovery: Entrepreneurship.

On reading the recent spate of death of Dubai articles (FT, Guardian, NY Times, WSJ etc) you’d think the place was finished. I spent a few weeks there recently and although there seemed to be visible signs of a slowdown (less traffic, quieter restaurants, etc) it’s far from game over.