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...competition among nations for investment. Alex Perry and Zoe Eisenstein file from Africa on the disparate development of Mauritius and Angola. In Denmark, Justin Fox analyzes the country's success amid high tax rates. Asia hand Kathleen Kingsbury examines China's push to land R&D labs. Latin America expert Tim Padgett assesses the surprising economic strength of Argentina, Brazil and Chile. And business writer Barbara Kiviat explains the significance of the WEF's country rankings. We are also launching on TIME.com an amazing Global Business section--a hub for up-to-the-minute business news, sorted by country...
Their instincts proved correct, and Mark de Rond, an expert on teamwork at Cambridge's Judge Business School, knows why. He writes about the rowers and their lessons for business in a book, The Subjectivity of Performance, to be published next year. In building the best teams, de Rond argues, it's sometimes necessary to jettison a bit of skill for sociability. "Talent is not just an individual trait but a social one," he says. That's true for high-performance business teams too: affable B players often bring out the best in the superstars. "They are lubricants; they...
That's a disturbing scenario for the Bush Administration, which was counting on the Musharraf-Bhutto deal to keep Pakistan stable. Many in Washington worry that the general is getting progressively heavy-handed and dictatorial. "Musharraf is digging in," says Stephen Cohen, a South Asia expert and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "He is either suicidal or totally ignorant of the situation." Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have both telephoned Musharraf and urged him to ease up. Rice is sending her deputy, John D. Negroponte, to Islamabad to try to hold the general to his promise...
...nearly nine years at the post, Bloom, an expert on immunology and tropical diseases, expanded the school's international research projects in Africa, India, and China and sought to increase financial...
...claims that he’s talking about the survival of the country, which is outright rubbish,” said history professor Sugata Bose, who is an expert on modern South Asia. “What he is doing is talking about his own survival. He is basically trying to save his own skin and save his job.” [SEE CORRECTION APPENDED...