Global Immersion

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Globalization is causing new and complex challenges for business leaders.  One being  - how do you lead in this new era of a borderless world?

A global leader is someone with the ability to seize different kinds of opportunities and understand the global forces creating them, says Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, who highlights efficiency, local responsiveness and innovation as the keys to value creation.

Learn more:  IESE Insight Bridging the Global Leadership Gap

To develop managers to work in an international context, it is important to make sure that the learning process involves an immersion in such environments, says IESE's Pedro Nueno.

The Impact of Globalization on the U.S. Wine Industry

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Mike Veseth gives three refreshingly different takes on the impact of globalization on the U.S. wine industry by using apples as an example.

One take is Juice Box Globalization, the other, Granny Smith Globalization and the last one, Honey Crisp Globalization.  All offer a unique perspective of thinking outside the (juice) box.

Don’t think that globalization is just competition from imports from other countries (although that’s part of it, of course) or just export opportunities abroad (as important as they can be). Globalization is both of them and many more influences, too.

Who is Mike Veseth?

Mike Veseth is the Robert G. Albertson Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of many books, including Wine Wars (2011) and Extreme Wine (forthcoming October 2013). 

Read the entire article:  Juice Box Globalization:  The Future of Wine?

Are You Ready to Go Global?

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The New York Enterprise Report asked some of the smartest people they know what will happen for business in the coming decade. Here's what they said.  And remember: You read it at The New York Enterprise Report first!

Fast Forward:  The Year 2023

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Is Globalization Shtick Getting Stale?

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Are we giving a false picture of the world?  Rajan Menon argues that we are.

But the globalization shtick is getting stale, not just because it's become a mantra, but because it gives a false picture of the world we inhabit and presents a cartoonish view of our universities. (Yes, I know all about the complaints against higher education: point taken -- to a degree, anyway.)

Let's start with what's making the world what it is -- and changing it simultaneously. No one can deny that the advances ...

Read the entire opinion piece here.