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Topic: Politics

  
GLOBALIZATION   |  Comment

Free Trade Isn't Fair

BY Sara Terry
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:20 AM

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»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  1 comment

High Stakes, Big Bets

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

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»

PHILANTHROPY   |  Comment

Social Capitalists: Profiles

BY Christine Canabou
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:45 AM

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»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Is Offshoring Good? [Full-text]

BY Fast Company staff
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:02 AM

The head of an Indian consulting firm and a high-tech-union president face off on the effects of offshoring and globalization.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Think Global, Campaign Local

BY Ronald Brownstein
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM

Last summer's convulsions over money and political reform in Japan tore apart the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and brought down the government.READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  Comment

Fast Talk: An Activist's Difficult Game

BY Cora Daniels
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM

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»

CHANGE AGENTS   |  Comment

We (Re) Built This City

BY Anni Layne Rodgers
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:40 AM

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»

CUSTOMER SERVICE   |  Comment

Can PR Save China?

BY Saabira Chaudhuri
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 11:08 AM

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»

AGRICULTURE   |  Comment

FAO: Farmers need fertilizers to fight famine

BY Vatren Jurin
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 10:17 PM

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»

GLOBALIZATION   |  3 comments

When Should Government Intervene?

BY Alison Overholt
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Mar 1, 2004 at 11:44 AM

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»

POLITICS + GOVERNMENT   |  5 comments

"The Millennium Development Goals Report[s]" little development


Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jun 9, 2005 at 11:29 PM

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»

CHANGE AGENTS   |  1 comment

The Revolutions Continue

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 25, 2005 at 6:43 PM

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»

BLOGJAM 2006   |  Comment

Missing TPS Reports Become International Incident


Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 9:21 PM

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»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS   |  Comment

In Today's News: Katrina, Cruise, Blu-ray...

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 3:19 PM

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»

POLITICS + GOVERNMENT   |  7 comments

The Farm Bill: Who Wins?


Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 5:15 PM

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»

ETHICS   |  Comment

Free Expression? Heavy Price...

BY Saabira Chaudhuri
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 12:15 PM

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»

DESIGN   |  Comment

Design Thursday: Design for Democracy

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Nov 8, 2007 at 11:07 PM

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»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Where Private Equity Collides with Donuts and National Security

BY Joshua Letourneau
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 11:38 AM

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»

2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS   |  1 comment

We The People...

BY Penny Ronning
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 1:51 PM

"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»

ADVERTISING   |  Comment

No Logo

BY Chase Wegmann
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 1:26 PM

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»

China in Africa
BUSINESS TRAVEL   |  10 comments

Mining Copper in Zambia

BY Richard Behar
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Jun 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM

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»

DIGITAL STRATEGY   |  Comment

UK politicians missing the digital strategy opportunity

BY Paul Grant
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 1:24 PM

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»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Innovating US Manufacturing - Is it coming?

BY James Todhunter
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 3:43 PM

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»

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY   |  Comment

Journalism and the Great Firewall of China

BY Brendan Collins
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Aug 2, 2008 at 12:30 PM

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»

Kenan Samms
CHINA   |  Comment

The America Price

BY Terry Tamminen
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 12:46 PM

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»

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