The following post was due since Spring. I began writing this piece, flying over the Atlantic on a sunny Spring morning. It was last in November 2004 that I had made my journey from America back home to India. John Kerry had conceded to George W. Bush in the US presidential election. I had sensed [...]

This past Spring saw a group of us MBA students embark on a business trek to Geneva. This beautiful city with Lake Geneva at its heart is widely acknowledged as the worldwide centre for international cooperation and diplomacy. Geneva, for most of us is synonymous with the United Nations, but it has so much more [...]

The next morning, we flew a couple hours south to the beautiful coastal city of Cape Town. The image of Table Rock framed in the airplane window as we descended is one I’ll never forget.
We were greeted on arrival by our friend Julia Jansch, who lives in Cape Town and graciously served as our tour [...]

Every year, for the past few years, student interest groups at Saïd have planned treks to many areas of the world. Some trips have been motivated by geographical and regional considerations while others have been centered on specific industries/sectors which are ‘traditionally’ centered on a particular city/area, i.e. Silicon Valley.
The 2009 United Arab Emirates [...]

Wednesday Morning, 1st April
No April Fools’ day for us! We were up and off to a Niger State tourist development site – the waterfalls of Gurara, sourced from the River Niger further upstream. There was a plan to build all of the following on this site:
• a golf course,
• a hotel or three,
• [...]