Chengdu, key for China on economic integration, says Spanish professor before Fortune forum
Xinhua News Agency
May 18, 2013

Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at the IESE Business School, believes that the Chinese southwestern city of Chengdu will play a very important role in China's integration in the global economy.

Chengdu, the capital city of China's Sichuan Province, "will carry out a very important role in not only assuring that China is increasingly integrated in the global economy, but also in ensuring that the levels of integration within China will remain high and that those people who live in the interior of the country will not be left behind," said the professor before attending a forum there.

Next W.T.O. Head Wants a New Look at Body’s Role
The New York Times
May 9, 2013

Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo, the next head of the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday that the institution needed to adapt as the United States and other nations turn away from the multilateral forum to regional trade agreements.

But doubts persist among officials involved in international policy that he will be able to conclude negotiations for a global trade agreement that will lower trade barriers and address new issues of trade in services and the Internet.

The World Is Not Global: It's Local
Forbes
April 23, 2013

The word “global” has now become the new buzzword of business.  What isn’t global these days?

While we certainly live in a highly interconnected world, the business world is not as “flat” as Thomas Friedman once predicted. Quite the contrary in fact. There is no “global market” for goods and service, rather there are now a set of globally connected “local” businesses.

We are just completing a year long effort to study best-practices in the structure of Human Resources. What we found is that while companies want order and consistency around the world, the highest-performing companies don’t standardize everything:  theylocalize.

Globalózungok vezetik félre a gondolkodásunk
Index
April 22, 2013

Teljesen téves alapállásból indulunk ki akkor, amikor a globalizációról gondolkozunk, ez igaz az egészben inkább lehetőséget látókra és a globalizáció kritikusaira is – mondja Pankaj Ghemawat közgazdász, aki a Rajk László szakkollégium diákjainak díját vette át Magyarországon. Az igazság a mérései alapján az, hogy messze túlzóan ítéljük meg a globalizációs szintünket, valójában nagyon is gyerekcipőben jár még az integráció. Ezért másképp kell gondolkoznunk, hiszen irracionális hiedelmekből és félelmekből rossz döntések születhetnek. Magyarországnak az ország mérete miatt muszáj törekednie a nagyobb nyitottságra, bár az utóbbi időben e téren rossz irányba megyünk.

Delivered yayın hayatına başladı
haber27com
April 13, 2013

Lojistik sektöründeki yenilikler, havayolu, teknoloji, otomotiv, tüketici, enerji ve üretim sektörünlerindeki gelişmeler ve Türkiye’nin de aralarında bulunduğu MIST ülkelerinin gelecek öngörülerine dair dosya konularının yanı sıra Harvard Business School’un en genç profesör unvanını alan Prof. Ghemawat’tan DHL Global Connectedness Index incelemesi ve son James Bond filmi Skyfall’a DHL’in verdiği lojistik desteğin öyküsünü sunan dergi, okurlarına her ay lojistik haberleri, lider yöneticilerle söyleşiler, uzman görüşleri ve başarılı uygulama örnekleri sunacak. Hızlı iş temposunda okunması kolay bir dergi olmak üzere tasarlanan Delivered, okurlarını yormayan kısa haberler ve ilgi çekici dosya konuları sunarken, daha ayrıntılı bilgiye ulaşmak isteyenler için derginin dijital baskısında özel sektör sayfaları ve derinlemesine incelemelere yer verilecek.

MANAGEMENT CONSULTING CEO: Our Clients Want More Than Just MBAs
Business Insider
April 11, 2013

Once a dependable employer for business school graduates, management consulting firms are starting to consider other candidates.

The industry looks for people who can combine analysis with presentation skills and management insight. While a degree from Harvard Business School goes a long way, it can't always compete with deep industry expertise.

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) CEO Rich Lesser tells the Wall Street Journal how his recruiting has changed:

What has changed is the kind of teams our clients expect. They want a depth of expertise in particular industry sectors or functions, so the breadth of talent that we draw on is broader. We still hire—in the U.S., in particular—large numbers from business schools, but we also hire people with different post-graduate degrees: doctors, Ph.D.s, lawyers. And we hire more people from industries, at all levels, who can bring insight and expertise.

Research?  Most people cannot understand it
Financial Times
April 7, 2013

Academics are not as irrelevant as Larry Zicklin suggests, but neither are they as central to the world of business as they believe, says Pankaj Ghemawat. The professor of global strategy at IESE Business School in Spain, says business school academics must do a better job of getting their ideas out there.

EU will junge Europäer zu Migranten machen
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten
March 14, 2013

Mit einem neuen Fonds von 20 Milliarden Euro sollen Jugendliche dazu bewegt werden, außerhalb ihres Heimatlands zu arbeiten. Das hat allerdings noch nirgendwo auf der Welt funktioniert.

EU-Sozialkommissar Laszlo Andor möchte eine Jobgarantie für Jugendliche in Europa einführen. Knapp sechs Millionen Menschen unter 25 sind in der EU ohne Job. Mit der neuen Arbeitsgarantie sollen sich die Mitgliedstaaten dazu verpflichten, offene Stellen und Praktika anzubieten. „Junge Menschen müssen bereit sein, ihre Heimatregion zu verlassen“, sagte Andor dem Deutschlandradio.

Pankaj Ghemawat, Professor für Globale Strategie an der IESE Business School in Barcelona, stellt eine ganz andere These auf: Die Globalisierung ist eine Illusion. In den vergangenen Jahren wurden eher regionale Bündnisse gestärkt. Er zeigt unter anderem, dass nur drei Prozent der Weltbevölkerung als Migranten der ersten Generation gewertet werden können; 90 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung werden das Land, in dem sie geboren sind, niemals verlassen. Angesichts dieser Zahlen ist es fraglich, ob eine EU-weite Jobgarantie in Anspruch genommen werden würde.

Changing perceptions on globalization
Marwar
March, 2013

He may be a professor, but he’s not a pedagogue. When he describes why the world isn’t flat and why we aren’t as globalised as we think we are, he talks of apocalypse and economics, hunter-gatherers and tsunamis, quoting the French poet Jean de la Fontaine and the director-general of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, with equal ease. Educated at Harvard, prodigiously intelligent and possessing a wonderful sense of humour, Dr Pankaj Ghemawat is an economist and global strategist who has changed the way we view globalisation. 

Türkiye'nin çekiciliği artıyor
Bloomberg
February 28, 2013

Uluslararası Lojistik şirketi DHL'nin yaptırdığı Global Connectedness Index 2012 araştırması, 144 ülkenin dünya ile ticari, finansal, teknoloji ve insan gücü kriterleri açısından bağlantılarını ve buna bağlı olarak küreselleşme açısından fırsat ve zorluklarını ortaya koydu.

Araştırmaya göre ülkelerin dünya ile ilişkilerinin artması, küresel ekonomik büyümeyi hızlandıracak ve bu büyümeyi sağlayacak ülkelerin başında Türkiye ile Meksika geliyor.

DHL tarafından bu yıl ikincisi gerçekleştirilen Global Connectedness Index 2012 Araştırması'nı ''ünlü ekonomistlerden'' Pankaj Ghemawat ve Steven A. Altman hazırladı. 2007 yılına oranla daha az küresel. Bu sonuç, özellikle yaşanan son küresel ekonomik krizin ardından ülkeler arasındaki ticaret, yatırım, teknoloji ve insan gücü ilişkilerinin beklenenin aksine artmadığını, yani azaldığını gösteriyor.

Pankaj Ghemawat was born in Jodhpur, India, educated at Harvard, teaches global strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona, and consults with businesses around the world. In his new book, “World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It”, he argues that contrary to another best-selling book the world is not flat, that local culture, geography, and borders still drive individual and corporate behavior.

“You may not be as global as you think”

La mondialisation recule
Le Journal
January 13, 2013

Cent quarante pays ont été étudiés de prêt par le Global Connectedness Index : économie, commerce, capitaux… Le bilan est sans appel ! Le monde manque d’intégration.

Le niveau d’intégration internationale des économies varie énormément selon les pays ; et le monde est moins intégré aujourd’hui qu’il ne l’était en 2007. Telles sont les conclusions de la dernière livraison du DHL Global Connectedness Index. Sur les 140 pays étudiés, les Pays-Bas sont les plus mondialisés, juste devant Singapour. Le Burundi, enclavé, figure en queue de peloton (la Corée du Nord ne figure pas au palmarès).

Ramadorai, under whose stewardship the company’s annual revenue grew from $160 million in 1996 to $6 billion in 2009, tells Sayantani Kar what it takes to build an enduring business.

When you took over from F.C. Kohli as CEO, the building blocks of the company were still being laid. Compared to your predecessor, how did your list of growth factors differ?
We had been part of the creation and the evolution of the industry. To us, it was very clear that India was going to be very critical to acquire and disseminate technology whenever the market opened up. We understood that technology was mainly available from the West, the US, and we had to build capabilities through the human capital that was available to us. So, when I took over (in 1996), the fundamentals never changed because I was already a part of that from the beginning.

We leven in een wereld zonder grenzen, waar bedrijven zich moeiteloos van het ene naar het andere land verplaatsen, en waar we door McDonald's allemaal dezelfde smaak opgedrongen krijgen. Toch?

Die manier van denken is een typisch geval van globaloney, zegt de Indiaas-Amerikaanse econoom Pankaj Ghemawat. "Laten we eerst eens naar de cijfers kijken."

Globaloney, wat is dat?
"Dat is de neiging om de mate van globalisering sterk te overschatten. Als ik een lezing geef of een groep nieuwe studenten krijg, begin ik vaak met een aantal vragen. Hoeveel van de wereldproductie wordt geëxporteerd? Hoe groot is het aandeel internationale telefoongesprekken in het totaal aantal belminuten? Welk deel van de wereldbevolking wordt gevormd door eerste-generatie-migranten?"