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From Africa to Asia, Colors (Colours) are Changing the Global Beauty Industry

 

 

"The State of the Global Beauty Industry: Entering a New Chapter"  by Euromonitor International, via YouTube.  Irina Barbalova, Euromonitor's head of cosmetics research, recapping her presentation made at In-Cosmetics 2010 in Paris, France.

 

MISS UNIVERSE CONTESTANTS might look like Barbie dolls in different shades. But beyond glitzy pageants, the colors (colours) of beauty are slowly but surely changing global consumer culture and the beauty industry, according to SkinInc.com ("Skin Color of the United States" by Daphne Kasriel-Alexander) and a new book by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones (Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry).

Journalist Rebecca Fannin a First Mover on Entrepreneurs and Startups in Asia

 

HERE'S A PLUG for Rebecca Fannin, a fellow journalist and clearly the leading U.S. media expert on entrepreneurs and startups in Asia. It's safe to say that Fannin, a Forbes contributor and a former editor at the Asian Venture Capital Journal, is a true first mover who has covered the rise of entrepreneurial Asia for many years with her former boss, Dan Schwartz, chairman emeritus of the AVCJ and author of The Future of Finance: How Private Equity and Venture Capital Will Shape the Global Economy.

World Economic Forum: Bicultural Indian Executives Keep On Rising

 

 

Citi CEO Vikram Pandit speaks at the World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in April 2011. Copyright World Economic Forum, photo by Alexandre Campbell.

 

A HANDFUL OF Indian CEOs and managers -- Citi's Vikram Pandit, Mastercard's Ajay Banga, Unilever's Harish Manwani, Coca-Cola's Muhtar Kent and others -- continue to ascend in the business world. Why? Because they're a bicultural, bilingual breed of global executive more comfortable in different lands and business realms than most Western- and Asian-trained CEOs.

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Nicole Scherzinger and Pussycat Dolls singing "Jai Ho" (You Are My Destiny), the Slumdog Millionaire theme song written by A.R. Rahman. Music video courtesy of ARRahmanVEVO on YouTube.

 

FROM GUNG-HO TO JAI HO:  Japanese management science used to be all the rage. A whole generation of business execs and scholars grew up studying it. Now, we're gonna see a rising wave of leadership books and pricy workshops on Indian and Chinese executives, and their magic business touch. (Twenty-five years from now, it'll be Russian and Latin American managers, plus polyglot global gurus with DNA and Ph.d's from all continents.) In this Wall Street Journal story ("Chinese, Indian Workers Give Bosses Top Marks" by Joe Light), thousands of respondants to a recent global survey by the Kenexa Research Institute gave low marks to the Japanese, and high marks to U.S., Indian and Chinese managers.

 

• Wharton Magazine, "Purpose, Pragmatism and People" by Peter Capelli, Harbor Singh, Jitendra Singh and Michael Useem, based on their book, The India Way: How India's Top Business Leaders are Revolutionizing Management (Harvard Business Press, 2010).

• Amazon.com, China CEO: A Case Guide for Business Leaders in China (Wiley, 2007) by Juan Antonio Fernandez and Liu Shengjun. 

• Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "Karma Capitalism: Has the Bhagavad Gita replaced the Art of War as the hip new ancient Eastern management text?" by Peter Engardio.

• Ernst & Young, "The New Global Mindset: driving innovation through diverse perspectives."

 

 

Editor's note: This post first appeared November 23, 2010.

 

CoolGlobalBiz, September 8, 2011

 

Brain Drain of Immigrant Entrepreneurs Could Benefit United States, India, China

  

CoolGlobalBiz, April 28, 2011

THE BRAIN DRAIN of immigrant entrepreneurs leaving the United States to return to India and China could lead to cross-border business benefits for the U.S and those overseas economies, Kauffman Foundation research has found. While the entrepreneurs report more opportunities in their homelands, they return often to the U.S. to stay in touch with their networks and family, according to researchers from UC Berkeley, Duke University and Harvard University. 

 

Documentary Filmmakers Explore Global and Cultural Boundaries in New World

 

 

When China Met Africa by Marc and Nick Francis. Says one African official, laughing, to a Chinese multinational's project manager of a major road in Zambia: "Since you are not black, you will be easy to find." Video courtesy of the filmmakers, on YouTube.

 

CoolGlobalBiz, April 12, 2011

SO MANY FINE films, so little time. Documentary and indie filmmakers continue to take on urgent and volatile topics often ignored by commercial TV and Hollywood, and their work will grow in importance as globalization races onward. Here are video clips on acclaimed global documentaries that explore cultural fusion and the boundaries that divide us:  When China Met Africa, by filmmakers Marc and Nick Francis, the tale of a Chinese project manager working on Zambia's longest road . . . Crossing Borders, by Arnd Wachter, on the world travels of eight American and Moroccan students . . . And Wagah, by Supriyo Sen and Najaf Bilgrami, on the daily flag-lowering ceremony at the India-Pakistan border by proud, high-stepping guards of both nations.

 

 

 

Trailer for Crossing Borders, a feature documentary by Arnd Wachter and Crossing Borders Education. Narrator: "At a time of world tensions, four American and four Moroccan students will travel and live together . ..  sharing experiences . . . encountering the other ... and in the process, discovering themselves." Video courtesy of Arnd Watchter, on vimeo.

 

 

 

 

Filmmaker Supriyo Sen is recognized at the Berlin Film Festival 2009 for his acclaimed short documentary Wagah, on the flag-lowering ceremony on the India-Pakistan border. Video courtesy of supriyobubu's channel on YouTube.

 

 

Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, Marks the Beginning of Spring in A Riot of Hues

 

CoolGlobalBiz, March 16, 2011

 

"Holi paint" by On The Go Tours, under a Creative Commons license on flickr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"riot of colors" by FrogStarB (Anand Balasubramaniam), under a Creative Commons license on flickr. FrogStarB is a photographer in Mumbai.

 

 

 

"Holi-Phagwa 012" by twinxamot (Jeffery DelViscio), under a Creative Commons license on flickr. DelViscio is a multimedia journalist based in New York.

 

Click below for more photographs of holi.

 

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 Nobel Prize Lecture: Mankind is "A Big House, A Great World House"

 

  

This stamp was issued in India in 1966 to honor Martin Luther King Jr., who received the Nehru Award for International Understanding.

 

 

 

CoolGlobalBiz, Jan. 14, 2011

 

"SOME YEARS AGO a famous novelist died. Among his papers was found a list of suggested story plots for future stories, the most prominently underscored being this one: "A widely separated family inherits a house in which they have to live together.

"This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a big house, a great 'world house' in which we have to live together - black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family unduly separated in ideas, culture, and interests who, because we can never again live without each other, must learn, somehow, in this one big world, to live with each other. This means that more and more our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. We must now give an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in our individual societies.

"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. This oft misunderstood and misinterpreted concept so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response which is little more than emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life . . . .

 "Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day . . . . "

 

- Martin Luther King, Jr

  "The Quest for Peace and Justice"

Nobel Lecture, Dec. 11, 1964

  

 

• Nobel Prize Lecture, "The Quest for Peace and Justice" by Martin Luther King Jr.
  
• The King Center, founded by Coretta Scott King.
  
• Martin Luther King III in Washington Post, "Still Striving for MLK's Dream in the 21st Century."
  
• Stanford University, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute.
  
• Wikipedia, "Martin Luther King Jr."

 

She's a BRIC House - Global Power BRIC Keeps Getting Stronger

 

BRIC leaders in 2010.  Photo by Jose Cruz of Agencia Brasil, from Wikimedia Commons.

 

CoolGlobalBiz, Jan. 3, 2011

FASTER THAN YOU can say mighty mighty, that BRIC house keeps rising as a global powerhouse.  In little-noticed news over Christmas, Chinese President Hu Jintao invited South African President Jacob Zuma to meet with BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) leaders in Beijing in 2011.  According to Bloomberg, Zuma said that South Africa will be "a good gateway for the BRIC countries.  While we may have a small population . . . we speak for Africa as a whole."

  

New Year, New Dawn, 2011

  

"A New Decade" by Matthew Stewart, a photographer based in Brisbane, Australia.  Clicked past thousands of fireworks photos to find this fresh take on the New Year.  Under a Creative Commons license on flickr.

 

CoolGlobalBiz, Dec. 31, 2010

 

"While angels sing with pious mirth / A glad new year to all the earth."
                           - Martin Luther, "Vom Himmel Hoch." 
 

"I have had my invitation to this world's festival, and thus my life has been blessed."
                           - Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali.
 

"A journey of a thousand li begins right where one stands, even with the very first step."
                           - Tao Te Ching (Chapter 64).

 
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
                           - Thomas Paine, Common Sense.
 

 

• Associated Press, "Millions gather worldwide to ring in new year." 
• BBC, "Hogmanay crowds see in new year."
• CNN, "Latin America in 2011: Year of the female politician" by Rafael Romo.
• AFP, "Fireworks over Kremlin as Moscow joins global New Year party."
• AFP, "Hu pledges a peaceful, cooperative China in 2011."
• Vanguard, "The African challenge in 2011" by Owei Lakemfa.