Tomas L. Friedman is an excerpt from his book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman is a New York Times investigative reporter and columnist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes during his career. Other works he has written include Hot‚ Flat‚ and Crowded and The Lexus and the Olive Tree. In this book Friedman argues that the world as we know it is becoming figuratively smaller as people are forced to collaborate and compete with others around the world. Friedman begins
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GLOBAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES READING REPORT Savannah Benton The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman. Pp. 533-579 April 21‚2015 I. Four noteworthy quotes or key insights from the assigned reading. 1. “I believe that capabilities create intentions. If we create an Internet where people can open an online store and have global suppliers‚ global customers‚ and global competitors‚ they will open that online store or bank or bookshop…The history of economic development teaches this over and over: If you
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The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman 1. Do you agree or disagree with Friedman’s assessment that the world is flat? Be sure to justify your answer I agree with Friedman that technology has made the world flat. But there is another point of view disagree with Friedman stating that there are still many people that do not have access to technology and for them the world is still round. 2. What are the potential impacts of a flat world for a student performing a job search? In a flat world
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Conservative economists‚ such as Milton Friedman‚ claim that business is most responsible when it makes profit efficiently‚ not when it misapplies its energy on social projects‚ where as in contrast‚ consumer activists‚ such as Ralph Nader‚ spell out responsibilities that include corporate contribution to the enhancement to the social well being. In this paper‚ I will be discussing the fundamental idea behind the views of Milton Friedman and Ralph Nader towards Corporate Social
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Friedmans10Flatteners TRANSCRIPT Slide 1 Transcript: Friedman’s 10 Flatteners 54 seconds This is a presentation about Tom Friedman’s book‚ called The World is Flat. Tom Friedman is a New York Times reporter and columnist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes and has had four or five bestselling books out. He gets some criticism for this book because some people think he’s a cheerleader for Globalization‚ and those people who are against Globalization don’t particularly like that. I think‚ in all
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The Virgin of Guadalupe In Chapter 10 “The Virgin of Guadalupe” the book talks about how differencing with the flattening of the world. How China has past Mexico in exports to the United States. How they have also started even making statuettes of Mexico’s patron saint‚ the Virgin of Guadalupe. How countries are advancing or getting left behind by the flatting of the world. How governance‚ infrastructure‚ and education are helping countries succeed in todays world. Even though every country
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good‚ in the article wrote by Thomas L. Friedman “Stuff Happens to the Environment‚ like Climate Change” (The New York Times) where it is explained how climate change is taken differently by all the large industrial economies‚ including United states. Friedman’s claim is that some candidates running for presidents do not pay attention to the severity of these problems and why voters should not vote for them‚ which is a good start to address climate problems. Friedman uses valid points to persuade
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A chilling 30-degrees‚ my hands inside my overcoat pocket trying to save them from freezing‚ and I just stood in the middle of a busy intersection in the heart of Philadelphia fascinated by a black 20 by 10 chalkboard with 6 words painted on top‚ "I can change the world by.." that was mounted in front of University of Pennsylvania’s gates... Anyone walking up and down Locust Walk could write down with a piece of chalk what they wanted to do to help or change the world. Future Business Leaders
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Kwame Anthony Appiah‚ Marshall Poe‚ and Thomas L. Friedman further elaborate on a few important aspects of globalization. Technology‚ a major part of globalization‚ has allowed humans to create the Internet‚ bringing along many benefits and drawbacks to our society on a social and global level. Humans have always interacted with each other for thousands of years. An example of such interaction is
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ASSIGNMENT 2 “Other side of outsourcing” by: Thomas Friedman The impact outsourcing had to United States was for some Americans bad. They claim the jobs they loose and the disadvantages that Americans were facing due to this radical change. While in the United States some people were disgusted‚ in the other side of the world‚ the young people were very thankful. This change made a revolution on their culture; the new Indian generations were entering to a whole new world‚ making a big change between
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