Best Business Books 2009: Globalization
Articles — January 10, 2010The best books on globalization this year offer insights into three directional trends that are changing the topology of global trade and influence: the deepening of regional ties across emerging markets; the continuing rise of powerful new global players; and, finally, the intractability of risk factors inherent in emerging markets and regional networks, and how best to analyze them.
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Best Business Books 2009: Globalization
The best books on globalization this year offer insights into three directional trends that are changing the topology of global trade and influence: the deepening of regional ties across emerging markets; the continuing rise of powerful new global players; and, finally, the intractability of risk factors inherent in emerging markets and regional networks, and how best to analyze them.
January 10th, 2010 | Articles | Read MoreFuture Shock
Just watched the documentary Future Shock (1972) based on Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s book with the same name. Narrated by Orson Wells (who smokes a cigar throughout the documentary, including at the airport … have to love the 70s), it’s a great watch for two main reasons: first, to see the predictions that have and [...]
January 2nd, 2010 | Blog | Read MoreHamaare Daramiyaa.N
Parveen Shakir (Urdu: پروین شاکر) (November 24, 1952 – December 26, 1994) was a Pakistani Urdu poetess, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan. Shakir started writing at an early age, initially under the pen name of ‘Beena,’ and published her first volume of poetry, Khushbu [Fragrance], to great acclaim, in [...]
November 12th, 2009 | Culture | Read MoreRebranding Dubai – The healthy way
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By Ayesha Khanna and Jaime Fitzgerald
The global recession has negatively impacted transshipping, tourism and real estate in Dubai, three of its primary economic sectors. To counter skepticism about its future, Dubai has been touting the Dubai Health Care City (DHCC) whose Phase I is going to be completed in 2010 [...]
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Second Life has been quite a phenomenon for several years, yet I always found myself on the fringes, finding real life more absurd than any fiction could proffer. Last week, a research project on the future of love and sex in the 21st century found me at the doors of Linden Lab looking for my [...]
September 29th, 2009 | Blog | Read MoreRAQS (Dance)
Noon Meem Rashid (b. 1910 – 9 October 1975) is considered to be the father of Modernism in Urdu Literature. Along with Faiz Ahmed Faiz, he is by far the greatest poet in the history of Pakistani literature. His themes run from the struggle against oppression to the relationship between words and meanings, between language [...]
September 10th, 2009 | Culture | Read MoreCodeless Quant Strategies
In a hedge fund, a prop trading desk or any high geek power trading environment, there is a chaos that is by now familiar. It is hard to imagine a world in which PhDs in physics, mathematics and statistics are not translating mathematical strategies into scripts and code libraries; where IT developers are not integrating [...]
September 2nd, 2009 | Blog | Read MoreDasht-e-Tanhai
Faiz Ahmed Faiz ( فیض احمد فیض; born 1911, died 1984) is one of the most famous modern Urdu poets, though he also wrote in Punjabi. Faiz was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (Progressive Writers’ Movement), and an avowed Marxist. In 1962 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet [...]
August 12th, 2009 | Culture | Read MoreMeta-IT
A New Framework for Technology Strategy and Governance
By Ayesha Khanna
INTRODUCTION
Most organizations today continue to regard technology as merely a back-office cost center, a viewpoint that diminishes the breadth of IT’s impact on a firm’s competitive profile. In fact, increasing innovation in global markets requires that IT take a far greater role in helping the enterprise [...]
The Rising Star of Alternative Beta
The investment community is beginning to question its habitual praise and compliments, not to mention the astronomical fees, showered upon hedge funds for providing alpha – returns generated not through systematic exposure to the market but through exploiting market inefficiencies and skillful stock picking.
The idea is not new, but recently it has come to the [...]
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Best Business Books 2009: Globalization
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Future Shock
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Rebranding Dubai – The healthy way
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Fun in Second Life
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