With over US$1 Trillion in assets at the end of 2007, ETFs have become a major global investment tool. Tom Lydon, the US-based Global Guru of ETFs, defines them as “a basket of securities that represents a specific sector, region or specific index. ETFs are like a mutual fund, yet trade throughout the day like [...] Read more »

According to Dr. Alan Rudi, “Success in business depends upon your ability to understand the “big picture”, referring of course, to the long term macro trends and changes that determine the future business environment.” We often get mired in the everyday micro trends and do not realize the impact on our lives and businesses that [...] Read more »

You may not have heard of Robert O. Anderson, who died last week at 90 years of age. But if you have lived in the US since the late 1960s your life was changed by a risk this man took in the mid 1960s on a remote stretch of beach on the north coast of [...] Read more »

Dr. Pankaj Ghemawat, who teaches at the Harvard Business School, has written a new book on global strategy that uses many case histories and lots of data to make the case for the right way for businesses to Go Global. Despite almost 5,000 books on globalization over the past 5 years (!?!), Dr. Ghemawat says [...] Read more »