Dublin is covered in signs commemorating the Easter Rising which occurred in 1916 and started a process leading to Irish independence as well as sectarian strife offering an example of the long terms affects of politicizing religion and also the possibility of overcoming seemingly hopeless conflict in the goodness of time.
IESE MBA Students and Geo-politics
The second year of IESE’s full time MBA program is winding down and last week the students in my course on Strategy and Geo-politics chose interesting examples drawn from companies and countries around the world.
The last months of the U.S. primaries (and why they matter)
As we enter the last few months of the entertaining and worrying U.S. Primary season, New York, Pennsylvania, and California are critical for the candidates to obtain their party’s nominations and maybe, becoming President of the United States.
Trouble off the coast of China
The current geo-political tension in the South China Sea gives another example as to why we need well prepared and balanced individuals in high political office in the United States and around the world.
Refugees May Be the Key to Peace in the Middle East
While the xenophobic right makes inroads across Europe’s most liberal and stable democracies and radical islam continues to increase its influence in the Arab world, the experience of some of the Syrian refugees offers a ray of hope for the Middle East and also for Europe itself.
