Global Immersion China post: Shang-Jin Wei thinks Male : Female rations can explain China’s outsized saving rate.
Shift Happens.
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”.
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.
NYU Stern’s Robert Salomon and Stanford’s Garth Saloner have ideas on improving the MBA.
Where are US college students most excited about launching their careers?
The Economist’s Free Exchange blog responds to Penelope Trunk’s Don’t try to dodge the recession with grad school post.
The Economist says senior managers in Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are the world’s best paid (adjusted for taxes and living expenses)
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.
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 [...]