Wolff Olins on Brand Dubai.
I wrote a postfor the Columbia Business School Public Offering Blog on our pre-MAB trip to Africa!
New Dubai urbanizing on a time-lapsed Google Maps You Tube vid via Wired
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.
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 [...]
I’m in National again!. Jen Gerson tweeted me for an article in The National on Twitter usage in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Is the $3.5 billion Nakheel Sukuk a buy?
Cool! I have a short quote in Kaelen Wilson-Goldie’s recent review of the massive Sharjah / Dubai art week that recently wrapped in The National.
The FT’s Lex has a worrying update on MGM Mirage. Not music to Dubai World’s ears.
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.