Mike Dolan is leading a long-shot crusade against the new economy's most widely shared belief: that global economic integration -- of countries, companies, currencies, and markets -- is both virtuous and inevitable.READ»
Tom Burbage and his 500-person team at Lockheed Martin went after the biggest military deal in U.S. history -- and scored a $200 billion victory: a contract to build the Joint Strike Fighter. They didn't play it safe; they played to win.READ»
Witness
Founded: 1992 New York, New York Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director www.witness.org
Entrepreneurship: A
Innovation: A
Social Impact: A+
Aspiration: B+
Sustainability: A-
Behind an anonymous, ...READ»
Last summer's convulsions over money and political reform in Japan tore apart the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and brought down the government.READ»
Sharon Hom
Executive Director, Human Rights In China
New York, New York
Sharon Hom, 56, has waged a four-year campaign targeting Olympic sponsors, holding closed-door conversations to persuade them to meet higher ...READ»
As American mayors debated the repercussions of terrorism for their cities, the former leader of Bogotá, Colombia offered an inspiring vision for the future at the Urban Land Institute's big fall meeting in Boston.READ»
Recently, "Made in China" has been associated with dying pets, an amputated finger, poisoned children, and even toys that emit a date-rape chemical when swallowed. Can the country salvage its reputation? READ»
FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine
(12/13/2007)
A leader of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says he doesn't ...READ»
These days it's hard to go anywhere without hearing people say that the government should step in and do something about the offshoring trend -- that hemorrhaging of service sector (and, increasingly, of white collar) jobs from the ...READ»
This morning I had the somewhat special opportunity to go to the U.N. to hear the Secretary General Kofi Annan present "The Millennium Goals Report" to the media. Little did I realize that I'd end up far more in awe of the physical ...READ»
The Seven Futures project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington, DC, offers its Seven Revolutions report. The study looks at how factors such as population, technology, and governance will ...READ»
Given that the workplace is full of humans, there is then automatically an almost infinite number of ways in which a good intention can be misunderstood, causing reactions that can escalate, and triggering government agencies to be ...READ»
What's worth reading:
Bush Tours New Orleans,
Pushes for Rebuilding Plan
"President Bush bowed his head in prayer Tuesday to remember the hundreds who perished in Hurricane Katrina, a disaster that forever changed the Gulf Coast -- ...READ»
Cotton farmers in Africa work their fields by hand, without the tractors and irrigation systems of their wealthier Western counterparts. If there's a drought, there's no cotton. If monkeys or worms destroy their crops, there's no ...READ»
At a meeting yesterday of China’s Communist Party Politburo, President Hu Jintao warned that more stringent controls on internet content must be put into place. Over the last week, the Chinese media has been leading a campaign to ...READ»
If you doubt that design matters, think about the ballot you might have cast on this past Election Day—and then talk to Al Gore.
Two years before a blizzard of hanging chads froze Gore out of the Oval Office, a 1998 study found ...READ»
Pop quiz: What do donuts and national security/intel have in common? Better stated, what do Dunkin' Donuts and Booz Allen Hamilton have in common?
Answer: They may soon both have the same owner, the Carlyle Group. Carlyle ...READ»
"We are confident that the Games coming to China not only promotes our economy but also enhances all social conditions, including education, health, and human rights. "
~ Wang Wei, Secretary General of ...READ»
In an era of corporate social responsibility, how can a multinational company participate as a patron and sponsor of the Olympic Games without tarnishing its image? Even a better question is who would have thought that ...READ»
I ask Xiao Ye, an Africa statistical researcher for the World Bank, whether a clear chart or table exists laying out the full extent of China's economic involvement in Africa. "I don't know anyone who has done such a ...READ»
The Internet has completely changed the world of media and communications. In the past decade we have seen a revolution in the way businesses and organisations operate, resulting from technological and social advances possible using ...READ»
I was looking at appliances this past weekend, and the salesperson
rattled off a rather long list of brands carried by his store. When I
didn’t recognize a specific brand he mentioned, I asked him to repeat
it. He did, ...READ»
Can’t say I didn’t see this coming a mile away – Western journalists in China for the Olympics (gasp!) can’t access certain websites. This despite the International Olympic Committee’s claim that reporters would have ...READ»
Commentators have coined a term that is being hotly debated in business, political, and social settings these days - - the “China Price”.
A quick Google search shows that the China Price is variously defined as:
- The ...READ»
