Financial Services Heads in Denial Over Impact of Globalization
Financial services sector leaders are failing to acknowledge the challenge that globalization will pose in the next few years, accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP said in a survey. Of 175 chief...
View ArticleHelp is a Call Away, Ctizens Taught
Newcomers to Canada don’t always know how to reach emergency services or what to expect when police, fire or ambulance personnel show up at their door. Some come from countries where the police are...
View ArticleAccessible Globalization
Why do firms continue to evaluate outsourcing and globalization? A 2005 study performed by IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center investigated the long-term effects of mature outsourcing organizations —...
View ArticleUNICEF Chief’s Theme for Middlebury Grads is Globalization
“Globalization is not a prediction, it’s a reality,” Veneman began. She cited the view of Thomas Friedman (“The World is Flat”) that international competition began with nations in the era of Columbus...
View ArticleFed Playbook Not Outdated by Globalization — Yellen
Cheap imports from China and the new global workforce shouldn’t cause the Federal Reserve to rip up its monetary policy playbook, Janet Yellen, the president of the San Francisco Fed said on Saturday...
View ArticleWorry Over English Erosion Hardly New
The way we English-speaking Americans see ourselves at home and in the world is necessarily changing. No matter how often we hear that we live in a big, diverse, multicultural country and a global...
View ArticleFound in Translation: King’s ‘Dream’ Plays in Beijing
For months now, Caitrin McKiernan has gone from place to place in this city to ask Chinese people an unlikely question: What does the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. mean to you? The...
View ArticleMaryland Lost in Translation
Ask people which states have a horrible language problem, and they are likely to name Florida, Texas and California. Maryland won’t be mentioned. It should be. Advertisement In 2002, the Maryland...
View ArticleSAP Opens New Global Service Center in Brazil
SAP AG has recently announced the opening of a new SAP Global Service Center in São Leopoldo, state of Rio Grande do Sul, where SAP plans to add 80 new employees by the end of this year. The new...
View ArticleGlobal Naming “Gotchas†Trip Up Microsoft and General Motors
…Later this year PC users in Latvia can look forward to a chicken on every disk when Microsoft releases Vista, which in Latvian means “frumpy woman†or “chicken.†Meanwhile, closer to home,...
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