
By Kerry Drew
With the 205 countries that participated in the Olympics and 174 countries in the Paralympics, one starts to wonder how language barriers are dealt with during the festivities.
The Olympics and Paralympics have three official languages: French, English and the language of the ...
By Lucia Alia
During his presidency, the first President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, wanting to westernize the Turkey of the Ottoman Empire, carried out a series of reforms on the political, economic and cultural spheres. His main goal was to modernize every aspect of Turkish society, including the language, and discard any trace ...


"Fish on the Carbon??"
by Karen Virk
I recently saw a sign in a Greek seaside taverna in the Eastern part of Crete that read: “We Serve ...
<< MORE >>China Mobile/MIT Sloan Program
China Mobile recently ran an Executive Education Program in conjunction with MIT’s Sloan School of Management. The leading mobile services provider in Mainland China, China Mobile, is also considered the world’s largest mobile network and mobile customer base.The MIT Sloan - China Mobile Executive ...

Por Cassie Yip
No cabe duda de que los negocios han evolucionado de forma global. Para tener éxito, deben contar tanto con un mercado extranjero como con uno doméstico. Los nombres de las marcas de muchos productos americanos se han establecido en el mundo entero en paises como Rusia, India, China…la lista de paises es interminable, pero ¿cómo consiguen los negocios americanos tener éxito en el mercado extranjero? No hay más que ver el nombre de la marca “Coca-Cola” y cómo entró ...
<< MORE >>There is no question that businesses have become increasingly global; in order to succeed, you must have a foreign and a domestic market. Many brand-name American consumer products have established themselves all over the world in countries such as Russia, India, and China…and the list goes on. But how can American businesses succeed in the foreign market? Take a look at the Coca-Cola brand and how ...