Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy, has spent more than a decade studying the illicit economy that moves everything from drugs and guns to pirated movies and human body parts around the world. In the book, Illicit, he outlines what amount to a shadow system of global business and trade.
Q: In Illicit, you write that [...]
Economist Robert Reich believes that the excesses of capitalism have produced a world order in which people feel good as consumers but suffer as citizens.
When Robert Reich published Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life in 2007, the U.S. economy was growing, the financial sector was intact, and the housing bubble had just [...]
Shameem Black, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University
American pop music blaring from speakers in North Africa. Indian novels being read on the subway in New York City. Has cultural production become as widely dispersed as the supply chain?
Q: What does globalization mean in terms of literature?
This is such a recent conversation. I was an undergraduate [...]
Nina Pavcnik, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
The lives of people in distant countries are increasingly being linked, through commerce, communications technology, or culture. Researchers are trying to parse out how the gains from globalization are touching the lives of the poorest citizens in developing countries.
Q: Is there a way to describe, in a broad [...]
EBR Exclusive
Q: Swiss Life Network is one of the leading global employee benefit networks. Tell us more about the history of Swiss Life Network.
Swiss Life Network has been created about 50 years ago to offer multinational companies risk coverages for their employees on a worldwide basis and with an optimal pricing through international experience [...]
By The European Business Review
EBR: Tell us about your career history, how long have you been at the Price Waterhouse Coopers and how you became the Chairman of the UK firm?
Ian Powell: I’ve been here quite a long time. I joined the firm originally in 1977 in our Birmingham office. I was in audit right [...]
Margrit Schmid has been with Swiss Life for over 17 years, during which time she has been responsible for several Swiss Life European operations, and for finance and business development for Swiss Life’s International Division. She was appointed Head of Swiss Life Network in July 2006 and CEO Corporate Solutions in January 2008. A full [...]
EBR’s Exclusive Interview With Kieran Poynter, Part two
Kieran Poynter was Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers from when the UK firm adopted LLP status on 1 January 2003, until 30 June this year. He was previously elected Senior Partner for a five-year term from 1 July 2000 and prior to that was Managing Partner of the UK firm [...]
EBR’s Exclusive Interview with Kieran Poynter, Part 1
Kieran Poynter was Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers from when the UK firm adopted LLP status on 1 January 2003, until 30 June this year. He was previously elected Senior Partner for a five-year term from 1 July 2000 and prior to that was Managing Partner of the UK firm [...]
