Will China Inevitably Develop Powerful Global Brands? Three Possible Scenarios
By Howard Yu
Given China's rapid economic development, what sort of global impact will Chinese brands have? This article identifies three scenarios, depending mainly on...
North Rhine-Westphalia: First choice for foreign investors in Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's economically strongest federal state, has proven to be a particularly attractive investment location for foreign companies in Germany and Europe for...
The Trend of History is Bigger than the Business Cycle
By Philip Auerswald
In March, 2009, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman posted to his blog a chart of US industrial production in 1929 and 1930 (the...
Leadership, Power and Contextual Intelligence
By Joseph S. Nye
Understanding of leadership is often limited by stereotypes about power, role and gender. In an information age where networks become more...
Exercise 24: Using Social Media for Crisis Response
By George H. Bressler, Murray E. Jennex & Eric G. Frost
Can populations self-organize a crisis response? This is a field report on the first...
Brilliant Mistakes: Creating Portals of Discovery
By Paul J. H. Schoemaker
“Mistakes are our portals of discovery.” James Joyce
If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear...
The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing are ...
By Jeremy Rifkin
Our industrial civilization is at a crossroads. Oil and the other fossil fuel energies that make up the industrial way of life...
GLOBAL TRENDS: Facing Up to a Changing World
By Adrian Done
How much time do you dedicate to thinking about the REALLY BIG issues that are likely to affect your personal and professional...
How Green is the Cloud?
By Kfir Godrich, VP & Managing Principal for HP Technology Services
While many industry researchers present wildly differing ROI metrics for how a move to...
Elevating board performance: The significance of director mindset, operating context, and other behavioral...
By Simon C.Y. Wong
The global financial crisis has prompted debate once again on how to improve the effectiveness of the board of directors at...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
