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Thomas Friedman and Globalization.
More on Thomas Friedman from The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman//
Thomas L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize
for commentary, his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. He became the
paper's foreign-affairs columnist in 1995. Previously, he served as chief
economic correspondent in the Washington bureau and before that he was the
chief White House correspondent. In 2005, Mr. Friedman was elected as a member
of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Mr.
Friedman joined The Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in
1982. In 1984 Mr. Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he
served as Israel bureau chief until 1988. Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983
Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer
Prize for international reporting (from Israel). Mr. Friedman's latest book,
"The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century," was
released in April 2005 and won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times
Business Book of the Year award. In 2004, he was awarded the Overseas Press
Club Award for lifetime achievement and the honorary title, Order of the
British Empire (OBE), by Queen Elizabeth II.
More on the book ÒThe World is FlatÓ
Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com
Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is
sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim, in his new book, The World Is Flat,
as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a
speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but
rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here. The world
isn't going to be flat, it is flat, which gives Friedman's breathless narrative
much of its urgency, and which also saves it from the Epcot-style polyester
sheen that futurists--the optimistic ones at least--are inevitably prey to.
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Prof. Suzanne Berger: The World is Still Round 
Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman and
Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT
International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), has published a
thought-provoking book on globalization,
competitiveness, and what makes companies succeed in the new economy. "How
We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's
Global Economy" stems from a five-year study conducted by Professor Berger
and a team of engineers and social scientists at MIT's Industrial Performance Center. Among her conclusions,
gleaned from hundreds of interviews conducted at companies around the world:
the economic playing field has not been 'flattened,' and there is more than one
route to success; simplistic notions about globalization need to be jettisoned.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/01/23/PM200601236.html
How do we compete?? More and more companies are opting to ship jobs overseas,
where labor costs are lower. But in her new book "How We Compete,"
MIT professor Suzanne Berger says there's more than one way for companies to
survive and even thrive in the global economy. Cheryl Glaser talks with her.
EDT 6460 – Globalization and Educational
Technology
Information about graduate course on the book
ÒThe world is FlatÓ offer by the Educational Technology Program at Western
Michigan University.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~poole/edt6460/friedman.htm