Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Global Business Network was founded in 1987 as a unique learning community based on ruthless curiosity, collaboration, and powerful new tools for thinking about and shaping the future.
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The Dark Side of Our Global Economy
Dan Wooldridge describes the global slave and human trafficking industry which is bigger than it has ever been in human history.
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A Story of Economic Discovery
David Warsh has given us a non-technical survey of the theories of developmental economics from Adam Smith’s great work by a similar name down to the present day.
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Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education, a study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, underscores what a September 2006 New York Times editorial characterized as "ominous trends." No kidding
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What will be the impact of rising fuel costs?
David Wooldridge compares the minimum wage with the rising cost of car ownership in light of rising fuel prices.
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The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
We’ve moved from trade between nations to a finely-tuned, interconnected, and highly specialized global economic system. America is so outsourced that an earthquake in Taiwan can bring computer assembly lines to a halt in Texas.
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The Times of London reports Google co-founder Sergey Brin has second thoughts about the price Google paid to be in China.
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Argues that America’s approach to global influence is stuck in a 20th century mindset. The EU model, while appearing weak militarily, is actually creating a “network” alternative to hard American power, and is shaping the 21st century.
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What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy
Based on a 5 year study of over 500 international companies to discover how they compete, how they plan to grow, which practices are succeeding, which are failing.
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Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
Like Jason’s mythic quest for the Golden Fleece, the new economic landscape is being conquered less by policy makers, global investors, and multinational corporate behemoths than by legions of modern day Argonauts –
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Cal Berkeley’s AnnaLee Saxenian has a clear vision of how the global economy is being transformed, and she has revealed it in The New Argonauts (2006, Harvard University Press).
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Rising to the Challenges of Our Uncertain World
We’ve been talking about personal dynamic tensions between faith and work for years. Kelly, CEO of the Global Business Network, describes seven global dynamic tensions that signify that we are not just in an “age of change” but a “change of age.”
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Judging by a recommendation from Ted Lucas and AnnaLee Saxenian’s body of work, I’m moving The New Argonauts to the top of my reading list.
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BusinessWeek debunks the "romantic notion" that North American business is safely in command of design and innovation, while the rest of the world trails along to do our bidding.
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The Final Inning for Team USA
A follow up to the post on globalization and the World Baseball Classic by Dan Wooldridge.
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