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Gendercide and the Global Immersion Program | Shanghai.

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

Why I am at Columbia Business School in an Economist Video.

Shift Happens.

Business School Entrepreneurs [The Economist]

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”.

The Economist Correspondent’s Diary at Haas

What’s a week at Haas like? The Economist’s Correspondent’s Diary offers an inside look at how the students are dealing with a mean economy and even meaner press.

Stern’s Salomon on Improving the MBA.

NYU Stern’s Robert Salomon and Stanford’s Garth Saloner have ideas on improving the MBA.

Grads’ Global Popularity Charts.

Where are US college students most excited about launching their careers?

Yes Grad School. No Grad School.

The Economist’s Free Exchange blog responds to Penelope Trunk’s Don’t try to dodge the recession with grad school post.

The Economist on Global Executive Pay.

The Economist says senior managers in Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are the world’s best paid (adjusted for taxes and living expenses)

Globality.

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.

ouds and grass-roots in abu dhabi.

Sana Munasifi touches on a great point in her recent review of the Fifth Annual Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Festival. She highlights the recently opened Abu Dhabi branch of the Arabian Oud House as an example of the type of grass-roots, ground-up, regionally relevant and contextual initiative (= investment) that may ultimately produce results [...]