This is a guest entry by Nandika Puri Nandika has been an expat for eight years, living in two countries and building a career now seven years long. She met her partner abroad and earned her MBA along the way and has quietly fallen for a different version of herself in each city she’s called…

On a recent family trip to a shopping mall, our younger daughter pointed to a drastically reduced product and enthusiastically lobbied for us to purchase it. After all, it seemed so cheap. The original price was prominently displayed, crossed out, and replaced by a much lower number. The discount appeared irresistible. So I found myself…

There is a commodity that sits beneath almost every international business trip, expatriate relocation, and cross-border supply chain, yet we rarely name it. Oil. At first glance, this may seem like an old-world concern. After all, we live in an age of digital collaboration, virtual teams, AI-enabled work, and increasingly sophisticated alternatives to physical travel.…