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SABIC’s Collaboration with MIT
The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has signed an initial agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, a world leader in scientific research. The agreement paves the way for SABIC and MIT to work together to
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Vladimir Putin Talks About BRICS
BRICS’ relatively new phenomenon attracts increased global attention due to the optimistic predictions about its development, especially against the backdrop of global crisis developments in the world economy. What is BRICS’ immediate and long-term significance for Russia? Is such a
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MENA City Lawyers – MCL: Winners in Lebanon
MCL is an innovative, Pan-Arab Law Firm crossing jurisdictional boundaries and challenging Middle Eastern norms by developing the first professional network of law firms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Each client of MCL receives incomparable local
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The IMF on Prospects for Growth: Latin America & Caribbean
Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to pick up from 3 percent in 2012 to 3½ percent in 2013, supported by stronger external demand, favorable financing conditions, sand the effects of earlier policy easing in some countries,
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Shell: Reduced Crude Oil Theft
Shell’s Nigerian unit says crude oil theft from its facilities in the Niger Delta is reducing, a development he attributed to the surveillance of the Joint Task Force, JTF, set up by the Nigerian Government to check the menace. Shell
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Al-Ghannouchi, Our Hero in Tunisia
Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, 71 years, was co-founder of the Ennahda Movement which is now Tunisia’s largest political party. A philosophy graduate of Damascus University, he moved to Syria following the expulsion of Tunisians from Egypt where he was studying in 1964.
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Strategy & Entrepreneurship from Alice Guilhon
Prof. Alice Guilhon is the dean of Skema the new business school created through the merger of Lille School of Management and Ceram, in Sophia Antipolis, France. Under her leadership Skema has opened campuses on two techno-parks, one in China
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Koofi and the Changing Face of Afghanistan
Some of us are burdened with lives of few hardships. Some of us are born to loving parents, have never experienced hunger, have access to quality healthcare and education, live in countries without war or unrest and have never had
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Sally Blount: A Social Psychologist’s Touch
Prof. Sally Blount is the dean of Kellogg School of Management. Kellogg is very much seen as a competitor to some of the big names in business education and as such has always needed to be an innovator. Blount is
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Doug Guthrie: Understanding China
Prof. Doug Guthrie is the dean of the George Washington University School of Business. Of course he is a most accomplished academic but interestingly also an expert on China. Guthrie has sometimes come in for criticism as being too pro-China
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