Global Business
Global Business
In terms of intellectual and industry leadership and innovation, Walter Wriston deserves very high marks. While A. P. Giannini (Bank of America) and J. P. Morgan are in a league of their own for having started great...
Today, Asia’s currencies are collapsing and its stock markets crumbling. Yet, despite this current evidence of the vagaries of market economics, the entire world seems to be embracing its policies. Why? What historic...
In The Prize, Yergin provides unprecedented insight into the history of the oil industry, and by extension, the dynamic and intricate history of the 20th century. In light of events in the Gulf...
Quality judgments are commonplace in America-standards of excellence exist for everything from surgery to movies. Despite the fact that Americans hold opinions on almost every subject, whether they know anything about...
The Machine That Changed the World is devoted to a careful explanation of the logic and techniques of lean production. By extracting the universal principles of lean production from their initial...
International competition for the brightest minds has made higher education a global commodity. In The Great Brain Race, Ben Wildavsky makes the case that this latest educational globalization should...
The popular world view is that China is an unstoppable freight train of economic growth. However, in Red Capitalism, Carl E. Walter and Fraser J. T. Howie say that decades of development in China have...
The increasingly global economy leaves governments with little room for unilateral action, and little choice but to pursue accommodation and cooperation. U.S. policy is still adapting to this new world, and...
Twenty-five years ago, most knowledgeable investors would not have dreamed of putting even a tiny portion of respectable capital into shares of “Third World” countries. Since then, a number of these countries have gone...
As the world moves into the 21st century, companies will come to discover that quick-fix, reactionary approaches will not work in this coming age of Intelligence. To outthink, outsmart, and outmaneuver competitors,...
