By Les Secular
Too many companies do not have adequate transfer pricing documentation and face potential penalties. Below, Les Secular argues that as tax officers receive more training on transfer pricing, and more businesses seek to expand their activities overseas, companies should be prepared.
A growing number of schools are using coaching to enhance teachers’ abilities to implement curriculum, manage their classrooms, and communicate effectively with students, parents and one another. The International Coach Federation (ICF) is the leading global organisation for coaches, and this article explores how the ICF helped Turkey’s Isikkent Schools to lay the groundwork for a program that went on to impact the lives of everyone affiliated with the Isikkent community.
By Adrián Blanco and Tomás Guerrero
Below, Adrián Blanco and Tomás Guerrero discuss ten economic trends shaping the global economy, including factors such as a multicurrency international monetary system, a revolution in energy, protectionism and demographic pressures.
Marcos Troyjo is Co-Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a special forum on Brazil, Russia, India and China at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He is also founder of the Center for Business Diplomacy, an independent think-tank on global entrepreneurship. Marcos was a speaker at the innovaBRICS & Beyond Conference in London on October 8th 2013, which gathered 220 delegates from 32 emerging markets to debate opportunities and obstacles for investment and growth in emerging markets.
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
In 1979, Iran shocked the world—and directly confronted America’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East—by charting its own revolutionary course toward participatory Islamist governance and foreign policy independence. Over the past thirty-five years the Islamic Republic of Iran has held dozens of presidential, parliamentary, and local council elections and attained impressive developmental outcomes—including more progressive results at alleviating poverty, delivering health care, providing educational access, and (yes) expanding opportunities for women than the last shah’s regime ever achieved. Furthermore, the Islamic Republic has done these things while withstanding significant regional challenges and mounting pressure from the United States and its allies. Below, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett suggest that like 1979, 2014 is likely to be, in unique ways, another Year of Iran, when Tehran’s foreign policy strategy will either finally compel Western acceptance of Iran’s sovereign rights—especially to enrich uranium under international safeguards—or fundamentally delegitimise America’s already eroding pretensions to Middle Eastern hegemony.
Numerous international scandals have created a sense that the moral fiber of our companies is poor. Below, David De Cremer considers why it is so difficult to make responsible leadership a part of contemporary corporate culture, and argues that as a collective we need to work on the management of responsibility in business.
By Aniceto Masferrer and Clive Walker
Terrorist attacks in the last decade have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of many legal systems. Below, Aniceto Masferrer and Clive Walker suggest the important theme of crossing legal categories represents a recurrent issue which underlies counter-terrorism laws, and argue that boundary-crossing must be considered carefully, without any expectation that it will deliver greater security.
The United Nations Charter and Extra-State Warfare: The U.N. Grows Up
Charles H. Camp & Theresa Bowman
Global Economy
From Deep Globalisation to the Risk of Deglobalisation: The Rise of Local-Contentism
Marcos Troyjo
Turnaround
Peter Blair Henry
Asia
Trade and Employment in Asia
Niny Khor & Devashish Mitra
China
Is China Buying the World?
Peter Nolan
China’s Environmental Challenges
Judith Shapiro
A Brand Culture Approach to Chinese Branding in the Global Marketplace
Wu Zhiyan, Janet Borgerson & Jonathan Schroeder
Doing Business is Easy at The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow
A View on Russian Economy Mid-term Perspectives
Sergey Drobyshevsky
Global Oil Market Developments and Their Consequencesfor Russia
Andrey A. Konoplyanik
Business
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
Coaching: A Tailored Approach to Talent Development
Europe
The European Union Policies in The Aftermath of The Global Economic Crisis
Laura N Haar
India
Preparing Rice Farmers for Climate Change: Dissemination of Submergence Tolerant Rice in India
Takashi Yamano, Maria Luz Malabayabas, & Manzoor H. Dar
By Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff
Western thought has, from the first, regarded the non-West as a place of antiquarian traditions and unprocessed data. Below, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff suggest that, in the present moment, it is the global south that affords privileged insight into the workings of the world at large, as old margins become new frontiers.
