We are inviting emerging leaders from the public and private sectors to participate in our first leadership programme in Mongolia. A week in Hong Kong building the skills required to succeed in today’s complex business environment will be followed by a ground-breaking field project in Ulaanbaatar.
This short film charts the journey of 25 executives with one week to produce a viable business plan for an Indian commodities trading company. Watch participants grapple with the concepts of globalisation then travel to India to meet farming communities and hear what impact globalisation has had on their lives. Individuals were nominated by global companies such as FedEx, BASF, NEC, Orix, Infosys.
On Thursday 22 February Chadran Nair will host a talk about his book Consumptionomics: Asia’s Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet. Chandran Nair is an adjunct Associate Professor in the MBA program at HKUST and is delighted to have this opportunity to address both students and non-students as part of the HKUST's Library Book Talk Series.
Western capitalism is clearly going through a structural crisis, but more importantly perhaps one of consciousness. The capitalist diktat, by preaching excessive consumerism, has conveniently ignored natural resources’ constraints, thus greatly threatening our collective future.
The second installment of illustrated articles asks:
Do Indian families need a big American snack food company to teach them new ways? Indra Nooryi, CEO of PepsiCo thinks so... "I want every product you eat and drink to be a PepsiCo product. I want a larger share of your stomach…”
This is the first series of book reviews by Asian writers on global affairs.
Title:
State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery,(Cambirdge University Press, 2004)
Author: Atul Kohli
During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese faced food shortages and starvation. Today, nearly 100 million people are obese in the world's fastest-growing economy, more than five times the number in 2005.
