Move the world
Posted by admin in Featured on 10. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Recently, while waiting for my plane on Zurich airport, I saw this ad of my online MBA school: the Robert Kennedy College in Zurich, belonging to the University of Wales. The very fitting slogan “Help your Career take-off” reminded me of why I started this further education in the first place, while at the same [...]
A tribute to true friends
Posted by admin in Featured on 30. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
We’ve heard the expression many times: true friends. What are true friends? Can we even use the words in times like these, in a world like ours where the impersonal and anonymous are the order of the day and people more often than not reduce themselves to the surface given that digging beneath it is [...]
This is Chile
Posted by admin in Featured on 05. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Did you know that Chile has the driest desert in the world, glaciers, big forests, numerous rivers, fertile valleys, 50 active volcanoes and 3 different climate zones leading to national hazards, earthquakes like the recent one and tsunamis? Well, we didn’t either, until we started researching for and working on our final paper for the [...]
Life is like a…
Posted by admin in Featured on 02. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Life is like a circus: There are all kinds of strange animals in the arena you have to keep under control while you’re walking on the tightrope without a safety net and all the spectators’ eyes are on you, watching every move closely, waiting for you to trip and fall down. There might be some [...]
Chilean wine cluster project: part 1
Posted by admin in Featured on 29. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
No writing of a project paper on Chile and its wine cluster without a Chilean wine tasting first! No sooner said than done. And of course, Chile has delicious wines, as we affirmed in Zurich’s Puls 5. It’ll be a fun paper to write from four different corners of the world, each of us writing [...]
20 down, 5 still standing: RKC Microeconomics Residential
Posted by admin in Featured on 22. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
24 students, 1 professor, 1 topic: Michael E. Porter on Corporate Strategy and Competitiveness and 1 location: Technopark in Zurich. Students were coming from all over the place: Nigeria, US, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Morocco, Russia, UK, Egypt etc. The one-week-residential was supposed to take place from April 19 till 23, 2010, 24 students had [...]
Dedicated to the kids of the 60s, 70s and 80s of the 20th century
Posted by admin in Featured on 12. Mar, 2010 | 4 Comments
If you were a kid back then, it would be difficult for you to believe while looking back that you actually survived to see today. We were driving cars without security belts, without airbags, our small kids’ beds were painted in the brightest imaginable colors containing a dangerous amount of lead. There were no child-proof locks [...]
