By David Weil
Working conditions are transforming as a result of a fundamental restructuring of employment in many parts of the economy. Below, David Weil considers the impacts of the fissured workplace.
The Case for Africa – The Real Estate Angle – Knowledge is King
By Nick Lambert
Many companies are being attracted to Africa by relatively low labour costs, burgeoning economies, growing populations and untapped markets. Below, Nick Lambert, Senior Director in CBRE’s Global Corporate Services Division suggests that with the barriers to entry continuing to erode and a positive economic outlook, the growth of corporate occupiers expanding into Africa is likely to continue.
Everybody’s Business: What’s Wrong with Today’s Business Schools
By Ian I. Mitroff, Ellen S. O’Connor & Can M. Alpaslan
Business schools are one of America’s greatest inventions. They are vital to the education and training of future managers and leaders. Sadly, the invention is in serious trouble. Business schools accelerate and reinforce intellectual fragmentation, focus on the wrong units of reality, and use simplistic frameworks to understand human motivation. They compartmentalize knowledge in a narrow body of disciplines that have no explicit connection to one another and no incentives to make connections. As a result, they do not serve students, business, and society well.
Business Analytics and Decision-Making: The Years Ahead
It is readily apparent that business analytics is an emerging and fast-growing field. Universities and colleges are developing programs in this area, and companies are developing relationships with universities (such as IBM and Ohio State University forming the IBM Client Centre for Advanced Analytics as part of the College of Business at Ohio State) in order to meet the future needs for analytics talent. Combined with the onslaught of “Big Data,” the field of analytics is a promising area for most sectors, such as healthcare, finance, emergency management, marketing, cybersecurity, and others.
May – June 2014
Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism Europe Africa America Asia Latin America India: Domestic Lenses for a Global Vision for the 21st Century Bridging Cultural Divides: Doing Business in China Company Boards in China and India – Functioning on Half a Brain? Workplace The Future of Work Technology Management
World Economy
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons and the Eclipse of Capitalism
Jeremy Rifkin
William I. Robinson
Perceptionomics – How to Solve the Eurozone Crisis
Terence Tse and Mark Esposito
The Case for Africa – The Real Estate Angle – Knowledge is King
Nick Lambert
America’s Shale Revolution and the Dangerous Myth of Energy Independence
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Development Strategies, Identities and Conflict in Asia
Natalia Mirovitskaya and William Ascher
Do Natural Resource Exports Curse Governments? Some Insights from Latin America
Ryan SaylorIndia
Is the Reversal of the Moratorium on GM Crops Good for India?
A. Narayanamoorthy and P. Alli
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
China
China and Latin America: Connected and Competing
Kayla Chen and Xiangming Chen
Q&A with Steven P. Feldman
Alice de Jonge
Vignettes from the Modern Workplace
David Weil
Ian Pearson
Business Analytics and Decision-Making: The Years Ahead
Jay Liebowitz
Everybody’s Business: What’s Wrong with Today’s Business Schools
Ian I. Mitroff, Ellen S. O’Connor & Can M. Alpaslan
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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...
