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CEOs in China
Sep 1, 2007
The U.S. Treasury Department today named a special envoy to China. Washington's trying to press Beijing to adopt economic reforms and a more flexible currency. Meanwhile, back in Beijing, about 500 chief executives and other businessmen hob-nobbed at the Global Forum, staged by Fortune magazine. It's a big enough deal that China's president took time to drop by. He told the CEO's that China's growing economic power is a benign force for global prosperity. Commentator and trade expert Clyde Prestowitz says it's time for CEOs to form a force of their own.
Fleet Street's new bankers
Sep 1, 2007
All week long, we're examining the financial world with a wide-angle lens. Today, our 'think global' series takes us to the world's biggest center of international finance. And no, it's not Wall Street. It's much closer to Fleet Street, at least geographically. Back when Britain ruled the waves, many of the strings were pulled by bankers in the City of London. The spiritual descendants of those bowler-hatted bankers still run the city today. But as Marketplace's Stephen Beard tells us, their accents aren't what they used to be.
French resistance
Sep 1, 2007
In this morning's edition of Public Radio's "Think Global" series, we examine a country with serious reservations about a global economy: France. A referendum there this weekend will give the French the opportunity to vent their concerns about America's free market approach to doing business.
Trusting the U.S.
Sep 1, 2007
Host David Brown talks to global business guru and professor Prabhu Guptara about what the rest of the world thinks of American business practices.
Think Global: Ethics
Sep 1, 2007
American businesses can pledge to behave ethically. But when they have an office in a country in different laws and customs, doing the right thing isn't always so clear-cut. Marketplace's Bob Moon gives us some examples in this installment of the Public Radio series, "Think Global."
Global misfits
Sep 1, 2007
In China, multinational companies are scrambling to hire Chinese nationals who've studied overseas or worked in foreign offices. Beijing Bureau Chief Jocelyn Ford reports globalization is forcing foreign companies to adopt both the good -- and bad -- of American business practices.
Standing out in India
Sep 1, 2007
This week in our contribution to the public radio series "Think Global," we're looking at how countries around the world are adopting America's business practices. In this morning's installment, we look at a company in India that's going way beyond the American way of doing business.
Khodorkovsky guilty
Sep 1, 2007
Once upon a time, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia's wealthiest entrepreneur. Now the oil tycoon could face up to ten years in jail after being found guilty of fraud today. Khodorkovsky was the poster boy for Russia's "oligarchs"--businesspeople who made millions by snapping up former state-run companies on the cheap. Reporter Simon Marks looks at the impact today's conviction could have on Russia's business climate:
Think Global: Bio-prospecting
Sep 1, 2007
You're gonna hear a lot about the G-word this week, thanks to a public radio series called "Think Global"--looking at globalization and its effects. Here at Marketplace, we're focusing on one particular trend--how America tries to export its way of doing business. Many U-S firms want international companies to follow their lead, in everything from corporate ethics to office culture. But the transfer of ideas isn't always easy, even where there's lots of money at stake. For example--an ambitious effort by U-S biotech companies in Mexico didn't take into account how people there think about medicine--and money. Reporter Mary Stucky explains:
Multinational indoctrination
Sep 1, 2007
Today we begin a series, "Think Global", on how American business practices are being adopted around the world. In our first installment, Marketplace's Jocelyn Ford looks at what practices U.S. companies want to teach their workers in China.
