Year: 2010

Today is the last day of the Globalization Block week. I was wondering if Prof.Stiglitz going to be in the class today. Sure enough, it was only Prof.Greenwald discussing the Benetton and Tricon cases. I was under the impression that the class is going to end at 2:30. However, Prof.Greenwald ended the class before noon. We didn’t get a chance to discuss Tricon case. He just gave us summary and key learnings from the case. I saw Prof.Stiglitz outside uris hall talking with couple other professors. I had his book “Globalization and its discontents” ready with for getting his autograph. They were discussing something quite seriously. I thought about asking for an autograph but gave up the idea at the last minute.

Received an email from Prof.Goodson with course syllabus and case readings for Block 1 of M&A classes. He has the “world’s largest syllabus”, his words!.

Term 5 starts now…

A great song in every sense. It accurately captures the essence of worldcup, the world coming together and celebraA great song in every sense. It accurately captures the essence of worldcup, the world coming together and celebrating a sport that is played in every corner of the world. K’Naan is a Somali born Canadian, who couldn’t speak English till he moved to Canada in his teens.

Here is the original from the album “Troubadour “. You will hear the voice of oppressed but hopeful soul with simple lyrics but powerful message. BTW, this is the first song I ever bought in iTunes, after using iPod/iPhone for the last 8 years!. That speaks for the quality of this song.

Coco-Cola celebration version in English.

Live during opening ceremony of Worldcup 2010.

Arabic (Nancy Ajram is awesom)

Spanish (Love the voice of David).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ferlXfaYi-w&feature=related

http://www.nypost.com/iphone/story.php?feed=/export/redesign/www/iphone/rss/news.xml&id=4.2.2835806507&pos=homepage_flash_2

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/chinese-companies-renting_n_629973.html

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/06/29/intv.china.rent.white.people.cnn

No profits, declining quarter-over-quarter revenue, a bankrupt founder/CEO, proven manufacturing difficulties and all hopes resting on a $50k sedan that won’t begin production until 2012.

http://www.innovation-america.org/archive.php?articleID=572