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Dubai Urbanization | A Wired Video.

By ⋅ May 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

New Dubai urbanizing on a time-lapsed Google Maps You Tube vid via Wired

Grads’ Global Popularity Charts.

By ⋅ May 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Where are US college students most excited about launching their careers?

Rebuilding Dubai via Entrepreneurship.

By ⋅ May 24, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

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.

I Love Cash Flow | Chicago Booth Dubai Event

By ⋅ May 12, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Chicago Booth are hosting an event at DIFC May 13 7pm with Professor Scott Meadow and Associate Dean Caroline Karr Cordially: Risk has always been a part of the adventure of entrepreneurialism. However, in an asset class that is constrained by limited resources, how does one best assess, create and edit a concept while exposing [...]

MBAs v Entrepreneurs. [Bill Taylor]

By ⋅ May 5, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Bill Taylor asks whether its time to stop using ‘students from elite business schools as a proxy for “talent” in the business world’ and adds ‘maybe it’s time to change our minds about what kinds of people are best-equipped to become business leaders’.

Kellogg Diaries.

By ⋅ May 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

EIU’s Which MBA have a great diaries series following the fortunes of five MBA students from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Makes for some sobering reading.

Is Capitalism Moral?

By ⋅ May 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In its March / April issue, The American Interest published excerpts from a John Templeton Foundation event in London that asked the question “Does the free market corrode moral character?” to some leading scholars.

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