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Staff consultant Joseph McNamara '96 suggested that I prioritize my global goals. "In a globally competitive market, you need to think broadly about the sheer range of factors that will affect your efficiency," he consulted me. "A key strategic variable in this case could be the exchange rate of the Swedish kroner." I asked him to explain. "This is a different world," he informed me, "a world that requires us management consultants to operate in a genuinely border-less fashion. We must be able to embed these programs into a complex, sustained, multi-year effort to change the way your...
There is some common ground between these two worlds of the future, though. I can think of at least three major technology topics that will affect both sides of the commencement line...
...analysis of the 1973 Arab oil crisis, which he said would splinter off to affect demand for many other goods became a permanent part of the way countries and businesses all over the world accurately predicted and planned production, according to the Nobel committee...
...other Arab states, where aging Kings and Presidents may soon give way to unfamiliar new rulers. Jordan's transition, says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based Middle East scholar, is only "the first step in a long process that will be going on for the next decade and will affect peace, energy and stability in the region...
Even alligator farmers got into the act, concerned that proposed restrictions on handbags and wallets might affect them. Though their alligators are raised domestically, most skins are sent to France and Italy for tanning and are reimported as handbags and wallets. "This nation's alligator farmers are hurting bad," moaned Ted Joanen, chairman of the American Alligator Council. He needn't have worried: the USTR went after handbags and wallets with "outer surface of sheeting of plastics." But that outraged high-end department stores such as Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus...