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2010 Quantified + Visualized.

By ⋅ December 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Kevin Kelly inspired.

A Spring Summary | Columbia Business School | MBA 2011.

By ⋅ September 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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

The Economist Which MBA? 2010-11

By ⋅ September 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Economist’s annual Which MBA? is out.

Let China Sleep, For When She Wakes, She Will Shake the World.

By ⋅ March 12, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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

Gendercide and the Global Immersion Program | Shanghai.

By ⋅ March 10, 2010 ⋅ One comment

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

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.

Deleveraging Dubai.

By ⋅ March 4, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

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.

Film in Lebanon.

By ⋅ August 27, 2008 ⋅ 8 comments

Reviews of three Lebanese films: Caramel, West Beyrouth and A Perfect Day.
Not unexpectedly (Beirut has been a vital cultural force in the Middle East for a long time), the films suggest that Lebanon has much to offer the Middle Eastern film oeuvre.
All the filmmakers share an evident and pronounced love for their city (and Beirut, so very lovable, is particularly photogenic, cinematic and receptive in this regard).

Chicago PowerPoint Essay Question.

By ⋅ May 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the most interesting essay questions I had to answer during MBA app season was Chicago’s essay 3: “We have asked for a great deal of information throughout this application. In this portion of the application, we invite you tell us about yourself using a non-traditional application format–a PowerPoint presentation. In four slides or [...]

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