The Economist talks to three Business School entrepreneurs. “With traditional jobs difficult to come by, MBA students are increasingly looking to start their own businesses”.
‘Despite the negative press, many MBA students remain a force for good’ says The Economist. Woohoo!
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.
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’.
The Economist’s recent special report on Globalization discusses the decreasing uni-polarity (or Americanized) nature of global business. BCG have coined a new term – Globality – to describe it which will no doubt enter common business parlance soon as Ghosn’s frugal engineering already has.