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May 31, 2011

The Business Case Against Corruption

May 31, 2011/ Gary Riccio

A joint publication by the International Chamber of Commerce, Transparency International, the United Nations Global Compact and the World Economic Forum Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI). See also http://www.weforum.org/issues/partne...

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May 31, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization, Security
May 31, 2011

U.S. Bilateral Trade 2007-2009

May 31, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 31MAY2011 from http://maps.ghemawat.com/ShowMaps.aspx?MapName=USA

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May 31, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
May 31, 2011

Ghemawat v. Friedman: From the Present Progressive to the Future Perfect Progressive Perspective on Globalization

May 31, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 31MAY2011 from http://www.decisionsciences.org/decisionline/Vol39/39_4/default.asp) See also http://ghemawat.com/books/world-30.aspx and, in parrticular, for a tour de force in empirical grounding, see Ghemawat, P. (2011). World 3.0: Glo...

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May 31, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization
May 20, 2011

Georgia Research Alliance 2010 Annual Report

May 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 20MAY2011 http://www.gra.org/Home.aspx New discoveries and inventions deserve every chance to be widely used. GRA’s VentureLab program provides that chance by helping universities move the best technologies out of the lab and into the ma...

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May 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization, Socio-Technical
May 20, 2011

GA Tech launching Homeland Security (CyberSecurity) program

May 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 20MAY2011 from http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/05/georgia-tech-to-lead-10m-project-on-cybersecurity/ Georgia Tech’s Research Institute will lead a $10 million Homeland Security project to look at open source cybersecurity options fo...

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May 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Security
May 19, 2011

Video on Managing Supply Chain Risk (FM Global)

May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Cut and paste this link into your browser http://www.fmglobal.com/VideoPlayer.aspx?url=../assets/videos/Manage_SupplyChain_Risk.wmv

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May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Curator's Favorites, Favorites in Security and Risk, Globalization, Security
May 19, 2011

The Risk/Earnings Ratio: New Perspectives for Achieving Bottom-Line Stability

May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Discover the correlation between good physical loss prevention and lower earnings volatility Paper can be downloaded from http://www.fmglobal.com/page.aspx?id=0402000 I will abstract this in a few days (Gary)

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May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Curator's Favorites, Favorites in Security and Risk, Security
May 19, 2011

FM Global Research Campus

May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Information available at http://www.fmglobal.com/page.aspx?id=04010100 Expanding Knowledge Through Research Fires, explosions, hurricane-force winds, flying debris—it's all in a day's work at the FM Global Research Campus. The 1,600-acre (648 ha) ...

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May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Security
May 19, 2011

Terrorism Insurance

May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 19MAY2011 from http://www.fmglobal.com/page.aspx?id=905112011&p=1

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May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization, Security
May 19, 2011

Physical Risks to the Supply Chain (by FM Global)

May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

This paper can be downloaded from http://www.fmglobal.com/insuranceevolved/index.html#/0/landing3.

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May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization, Security
May 19, 2011

Untangle Your Supply Chain (by FM Global)

May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

This white paper can be downloaded from HBR Guest Addition on "Content on Risk and Globalization" by FM Global at http://hbr.org/web/comm/fmglobal/sponsored-archive/fmglobal

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May 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Curator's Favorites, Favorites in Logistics-Transportation, Logistics-Transportation
May 16, 2011

Cross-Border Trucking Between U.S. and Mexico

May 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 17MAY2011 from http://logistics.about.com/b/2011/04/19/can-cross-border-trucking-really-happ... The Department of Transportation (DoT) has announced a new proposal for a three year border trucking program which will allow trucks from Mex...

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May 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Security
May 16, 2011

Business Development Mission to Peru and Chile

May 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 17MAY2011 from http://www.export.gov/eac/show_detail_trade_events.asp?EventID=31731&Inpu... Business Development Mission to Peru and Chile -- Construction Eq., Environmental Technologies, Mining Industry Eq., Oil/Gas Field Machinery, Tra...

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May 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization
May 16, 2011

Executive-led Mission to Afghanistan

May 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 17MAY2011 from http://www.export.gov/eac/show_detail_trade_events.asp?EventID=31723&Inpu... Executive-led Mission to Afghanistan -- Agricultural Machinery & Eq., Construction Eq., Electrical Power Systems, Transportation Serv. (other tha...

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May 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization
May 16, 2011

Triangulating on Multi-Local Success

May 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Communities (in black at the vertices of the triangle) that increasingly will play a critical role together in providing a stable infrastructure for multilaterial innovation and entrepreneurship. The drivers (in red) in the emerging market spaces ...

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May 16, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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May 17, 2011

Conscious Capitalism, Conscious Business, and Conscious Leadership

May 17, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 17MAY2011 from http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/whatis-conscious-capitalism.html The 20th century witnessed a lengthy battle between polar opposite views of how to organize and regulate economic activity. Although free market capitalis...

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May 17, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization
May 17, 2011

Asian Indian Businesses in the U.S.

May 17, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 17MAY2011 from http://logistics.about.com/b/2011/05/10/minority-businesses-increase-signific... Minority owned businesses have been targeted by States and business alike and according to the latest data from the US Census Bureau there ar...

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May 17, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization
May 11, 2011

Transit Facilitation

May 11, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 11MAY2011 from http://go.worldbank.org/FK2KPB1AM0 Background Geography adds dramatically to the development challenges facing many landlocked developing countries (LLDCs). An inland location frequently results in high trade transaction c...

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May 11, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization
May 11, 2011

Trade Logistics in the Global Economy

May 11, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Connecting to Compete 2010 Trade Logistics in the Global Economy: The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators Jean-François Arvis, Monica Alina Mustra (The World Bank),Lauri Ojala (Turku School of Economics),Ben Shepherd, Daniel Saslavsky (...

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May 11, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
Uncategorized
Globalization
May 11, 2011

Global Trade Logistics Improving, But More Needed to Boost Recovery

May 11, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 11MAY2011 from http://tinyurl.com/3t7rnu3 (World Bank Press Release No:2010/226/PREM) WASHINGTON, January 15, 2010—The capacity of countries to efficiently move goods and connect manufacturers and consumers with international markets is ...

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May 11, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Curator's Favorites, Globalization, Logistics-Transportation
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