Jesse Bilsten

International Business
What did I learn while travelling in China and India? Business opportunities are everywhere and it takes ingenuity and perseverance to recognize and capitalize on them. Each country has its quirks or idiosyncrasies, weaknesses, strengths, and lessons to be learned — especially in business. Knowing which to capitalize on and when [...]

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Rivoli recounts a time in her life when she mapped out the family tree of a T-shirt (one she sees on vacation in Florida) based on an urge born from a 1999 World Trade Organization protest question: “Who made your T-shirt?” She does a wonderful job engaging the reader by constantly instilling [...]

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Jared Diamond looks into how societies fail or “collapse”.  And by collapse he means “…a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time.”  Straight to the point and extremely engaging to read as I was hoping.  I was impressed by Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs [...]

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Thomas L. Friedman originally captured my attention on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He talked briefly about the book and what it covered: How the world is becoming flat through the sharing of information. He proposes that there are many “flattener’s” that make sharing information easier. Ten to be exact:

The Berlin wall [...]