Tokyo, Japan Changing planes during my 24 hours of travel back to the United States, it struck me that in both Korea and Turkey I recently heard very interesting stories of community based organizations in difficult markets fighting municipal authorities for office space — and winning! These things matter because in tight and expensive markets the ability …
Category: Ideas and Issues
FDI in Retail in Korea
Seoul, South Korea On the road one meeting leads to another. Sometimes one pushes forward with little but trust for the guide in this case the indefatigable Na and the stone-cold commitment to working a full day. I was coming to the end of the trail. We were going to meet with the Democratic Labor Party. …
The Shadow of Indian Conglomerates
Delhi, India The papers were full of the new of the latest purchases of the giant Tata operations that had moved a protected state steel monopoly into a multi-national steel giant and the largest steel combine in the world. More titillating than their movements into steel in middle of the United Kingdom was the recent announced …