California dreaming with Google’s HR policy
IT IS said that you are more likely to win a place at Harvard or Yale than land a job with Google. The company’s...
Tata Steel: Perseverance & Excellence
Blame it on Ayn Rand. She – of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead fame – provided Sajid Savid with an ideological backbone. Secretary for...
Stacey Ferreira: The Billion Dollar Pitch
Few people make their first million before they turn twenty, and fewer still can say they have penned an international best-seller to boot. Stacey...
Spotlight on Montenegro
Can the double-edged sword of this tiny country be finally sheathed by a merger into the European Union?
IT isn’t entirely certain that Milo Djukanovic,...
Joseph E Stiglitz and Hamid Rashid: Closing Developing Countries’ Capital Drain
Developing countries are bracing for a major slowdown this year. According to the UN report World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016, their growth averaged...
Eduardo Galeano: Remembering a Forgotten Continent
In the last days of his presidency, José Mujica visited the Casmu Hospital in Montevideo to pay his respects to Uruguay’s foremost historian and...
Flash-in-the-mouth tech win for Scots firm
SCOTTISH dental-imaging tech company Calcivis is getting its teeth into the US thanks to pre-market approval from the FDA.
CEO of the Edinburgh-based firm, Adam...
Storytelling, psychodrama and VR ‘could help Gen Z in workplace’
GENERATION Z has been posited as the most stressed cohort in the modern workplace.
According to Cigna International Health’s 2023 survey, 91 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds...
Jan Pronk: It Takes More than Good Intentions
The government of Sudan declared Jan Pronk persona non grata in October 2006, summoning the UN special envoy to pack his bags and leave...
Playing to Win or Playing to Survive? Urbanisation and the Knowledge...
It is no surprise that cities around the world have been expanding over the last few decades. The pace of this trend is breath-taking....
