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Let China Sleep, For When She Wakes, She Will Shake the World.
Reposting an old review of the essential China Shakes the World by James Kynge.
Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down [TechCrunch]
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 on the MBA Ethics Oath.
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.
Future Luxury?
McKinsey take a look at Luxury in Japan and try to fashion some long-term industry trends.
Grads’ Global Popularity Charts.
Where are US college students most excited about launching their careers?
Rebuilding Dubai via Entrepreneurship.
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.
Is Capitalism Moral?
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.
Seth Godin’s Alternative MBA.
Seth has a proposition for those of you “stuck in a dead end job in publishing, or if you made a not-so-great choice in getting your career started, or if you thought Wall Street would be a different place, or if you just got laid off, or if you’re not crazy about fretting away the next six months waiting to get fired and you’re not quite ready to start your own gig”.
November 4th 2008.
Brand new history today. It’s good to have the United Stated in the world.
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