Friends in Dubai are organizing a silent auction to raise funds for the Pakistan floods.
Dollar Down. Renminbi Up. Only questions are how and when?
Reposting an old review of the essential China Shakes the World by James Kynge.
TechCrunch on foreign applications to US schools: Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes It’s happening: Lou Dobbs’ dream come true and Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare. We’re already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their US educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries. [...]
Jon Oliver asks Columbia’s Bruce Kogut if he’s ever had a student he thought would do some serious jail-time and then chats to Harvard MBAs about the ethics oath.
McKinsey take a look at Luxury in Japan and try to fashion some long-term industry trends.
Where are US college students most excited about launching their careers?
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.